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Thread: GIVE US HOTH PLEASE! Petition Drive.. give a reply to let SWG know what we want!
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DeMarcoNovalight
Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:59 am
#1
Hey developers, we want HOTH!
Here's a great idea for you to work with the GCW....
Create a Planet Hoth, make it a faction only planet with PvP. This would allow player to only use Faction Bases to create a colony. Once the colony has been established, at a certain level of bases or facilities; Player could build homes to support their colony
Upon initial creation, only have 3 starports. One for Imperials, Rebels and Neutrals.
The rest of the planet can have natural inhabitants, kinda like dath is.
Then let the players who want to build buy faction bases from other planets to populate the new lands
Once the faction base have been placed of course you would then have recruiters and such from the bases.
This would create an entirely player developed enviroment.. with ever changing faction sway.
And it would allow all the PvP folks a good place to let their corpses rot.
This is an idea that would be greatly appreciated if implemented by SOE.
Give the people what they want! Give us our precious, give us Hoth!
gassygunslinger
Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:09 pm
#2
Look man, I don't want to be a nay-sayer, but really? How would this work? The reason the DEV's probably haven't done this yet, is because it would be incredibly hard to fit it in withthe whole storyline. I'm not talking about little tiny details that SWG sometimes has to take liberty of to make the game more interesting, but this is really big! The whole Hoth battle lasted, well, noy longer than a day in the movie, and had a LOT of vehicles that would have to be left out (like the AT-AT's, Snowspeeders) and if the whole scene was full of AT-ST's, then I think the rebs would be very pissed, lol. So, an everlasting battle at Hoth, lasting months, (or an echo base that respawns every so often, which REALLY wouldn't make sense) and the fact that Leia, Luke, Han and Chewbacca would all have to be there, would all make it very complicated, and extremely hard to make sense, lest they take HUGE liberties from the plot of starwars.
To prove that I'm not just putting down the idea without any suggestions, heres what I have to say. There IS a way for there to be a successful Hoth planet, but it would have to be majorl downsized. Maybe, to make it all work, they can make this the premise; Rebels: We have a large rebel base (Echo base) on one far side of the planet, but we have lost all contact with a large group that headed far out in exploration of a faroff region of Hoth.We think this storm took them down.We'll send you on a shuttle to the last known coordinates of them, to see what you can find. We can't detect any incoming ships, or even communicate until out sensor system is repaired from the last storm.Imperials: A team of scientists, with a large number of troops went missing on Hoth. We can't contact them, as a large storm is sweeping through the planet, and any communications will be lost. See if you can find them...
Now, what I suggested is entirely possible within the plot, only taking a few minor liberties. This way, since communication is lost due to a "large storm" the rebels at Echo base won't know the Imperials are there so they won't have to retreat, and the Imperials won't know that the large rebel base is there. The faction bases could be explained as search parties, while the rebels would have to eliminate the Imperials before they found Echo Base, the Imperials would think the Rebels are just trying to hastle their search party, and learned of their involvement through "dirty rebel means". Instead of having an Echo Base, and AT-AT (ext.), they could instead have a makeshift rebel base from thecrashed rebel survivors, maybe made out of their ship? While the Imperials would have a large science outpost, that they built. As long as these two forces don't interfere AT ALL with EchoBase, than Ithink theplot will be fine.
Message Edited by gassygunslinger on 03-12-2005 11:24 AM
TheOneCH0908
Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:57 pm
#3
Cool...hoth is it ok.
Message Edited by TheOneCH0908 on 03-12-2005 02:58 PM
Derku
Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:41 pm
#4
gassygunslinger wrote:
Look man, I don't want to be a nay-sayer, but really? How would this work? The reason the DEV's probably haven't done this yet, is because it would be incredibly hard to fit it in withthe whole storyline. I'm not talking about little tiny details that SWG sometimes has to take liberty of to make the game more interesting, but this is really big! The whole Hoth battle lasted, well, noy longer than a day in the movie, and had a LOT of vehicles that would have to be left out (like the AT-AT's, Snowspeeders) and if the whole scene was full of AT-ST's, then I think the rebs would be very pissed, lol. So, an everlasting battle at Hoth, lasting months, (or an echo base that respawns every so often, which REALLY wouldn't make sense) and the fact that Leia, Luke, Han and Chewbacca would all have to be there, would all make it very complicated, and extremely hard to make sense, lest they take HUGE liberties from the plot of starwars.
To prove that I'm not just putting down the idea without any suggestions, heres what I have to say. There IS a way for there to be a successful Hoth planet, but it would have to be majorl downsized. Maybe, to make it all work, they can make this the premise; Rebels: We have a large rebel base (Echo base) on one far side of the planet, but we have lost all contact with a large group that headed far out in exploration of a faroff region of Hoth.We think this storm took them down.We'll send you on a shuttle to the last known coordinates of them, to see what you can find. We can't detect any incoming ships, or even communicate until out sensor system is repaired from the last storm.Imperials: A team of scientists, with a large number of troops went missing on Hoth. We can't contact them, as a large storm is sweeping through the planet, and any communications will be lost. See if you can find them...
Now, what I suggested is entirely possible within the plot, only taking a few minor liberties. This way, since communication is lost due to a "large storm" the rebels at Echo base won't know the Imperials are there so they won't have to retreat, and the Imperials won't know that the large rebel base is there. The faction bases could be explained as search parties, while the rebels would have to eliminate the Imperials before they found Echo Base, the Imperials would think the Rebels are just trying to hastle their search party, and learned of their involvement through "dirty rebel means". Instead of having an Echo Base, and AT-AT (ext.), they could instead have a makeshift rebel base from thecrashed rebel survivors, maybe made out of their ship? While the Imperials would have a large science outpost, that they built. As long as these two forces don't interfere AT ALL with EchoBase, than Ithink theplot will be fine.
Message Edited by gassygunslinger on 03-12-2005 11:24 AM
Fitting hundreds of jedi into this time period didn't seem to difficult for the devs.
Israth
Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:37 pm
#5
Hoth, just like Coruscant is a bad idea. I'm not a ""carebear"" but why make a PvP only planet? It would be giving new content that the PvE crowd can't access. You don't need a PvP only planet, you already have what, 9 PvP planets?
Kinshi
Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:40 pm
#7
*We* do NOT *need* Hoth.
In fact we do not need anything that further spreads out servers playerbases out more (im glad Kashyykk is not buildable, as if it were, city ranking of Metropolis would be come rare and very difficult to obtain because the population got too diluted) - maybe if the servers get filled w/ more people, then we could think of that.
Yes Id like to see new planets but frankly we dont need very many, especially with planets like Rori, Talus, Yavin and Endor being underutilized. This game still has a LOT of room to grow with the planets it has already. (I mean hell some of you seem to think only 2 planets exist, Dantooine and Dathomir)
What I want is more content in terms of Missions and Multipart missions (like the Hero quests, and the Rebel Thempark). More of that, LOTS more\, and spread it all over the existing planets. Make there be reasons to build on Rori & Talus. Give them feircer critters, themparks and dungeons.
Dont add more and more and more planets, back fill what we have. I can see the compelling reasons to add Kashyykk and I cannot argue with its appeal (especially for bringing new players) but beyond that, we simply dont have the palyer base and the compelling need to add more planets, especially buildable ones.
In fact we do not need anything that further spreads out servers playerbases out more (im glad Kashyykk is not buildable, as if it were, city ranking of Metropolis would be come rare and very difficult to obtain because the population got too diluted) - maybe if the servers get filled w/ more people, then we could think of that.
Yes Id like to see new planets but frankly we dont need very many, especially with planets like Rori, Talus, Yavin and Endor being underutilized. This game still has a LOT of room to grow with the planets it has already. (I mean hell some of you seem to think only 2 planets exist, Dantooine and Dathomir)
What I want is more content in terms of Missions and Multipart missions (like the Hero quests, and the Rebel Thempark). More of that, LOTS more\, and spread it all over the existing planets. Make there be reasons to build on Rori & Talus. Give them feircer critters, themparks and dungeons.
Dont add more and more and more planets, back fill what we have. I can see the compelling reasons to add Kashyykk and I cannot argue with its appeal (especially for bringing new players) but beyond that, we simply dont have the palyer base and the compelling need to add more planets, especially buildable ones.
TheOneCH0908
Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:11 am
#9
Guys, put this thread in to Galactic Civil War. You should get more support there for your idea.
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