Development Cycle Archive

1) STINKIN’ LAWS- Here is an absolutely new concept to the game... LAWS. Different cities and planets can have different laws. They may be enforced by the local NPC (or Player) militia. In some cases, players may vote for Candidates (like in Bestine) that will promise to enforce a'Platform' of Laws (Bazaar Bid Limits raised to 10000, but Drug Users will be shot on sight!) Player cities could also choose their own laws, either by mayor dictatorship or by vote... mayor's discretion. Different cities could have WIDELY different laws, which could change with different candidates, and be different from server to server.Some law platforms (and candidates) might last a week and get reelected, others might last a single week, period. (‘Consul Exodus was assassinated last night by a squad of Stormtroopers… What do you mean Rebels? This holo shows stormtroopers shooting up the-… um, yes sir, that’s a very big gun… Like I was saying, official sources blame the assassination on a lawless band of Rebels…’) There may even be times when players will cry for impeachment or worse.

Criminals will not only be shot on site, their clones will be transported to the Dathomir Imperial Prison! (Jailbreak themepark)

In addition, people who SERIOUSLY break the laws (do a lot of 'bad' things) of certain cities over and over might even become bounties to aligned Bounty Hunters(NPC or PC). ‘Criminals’ would get an In-game message letting them know they'd become a bounty. If the player logged out (or had his bounty 'fixed' by a smuggler) the bounty hunter would get 50% the bounty and xp. (NPC Bounty Hunter shows up by spaceport; "SpammerSam, you are under bounty for Shouting in Public and otherwise disturbing the peace under law G27.12 of the Correllia Security Act! Prepare to pay your debt to society, you despicable durni!") Getting killed by a bounty hunter would not result in item decay or insurance cancellation (unless some law changed that).

(As a sidenote, yesterday I tried to spit on and slap a stormtrooper in Mos Espa after hearing information that such actions would provoke consequences. Nothing happened. Pity. L )

2) RANK INSIGNIA- Many players want to display their rank. I think it would be cool if OVERT players had a rank insignia appear after their PA or name. Covert players, of course, would not display any insignia. Players should be able to click their insignia on or off.

3) STORAGE - I'd like furniture that allows storage but does not add to Items Stored in a house as they are filled. Much like a Droid Storage Unit will hold 10 items, it would be nice to store 50 items into an Armoire or Tool chest for the price of 1 item in your house, instead of in a levitatingbackpack ata price of 51 items in your house. Something we could rename, too!In the name of server memory,we might be limitedin how many of these we can have in our homes...probably fewer than we'd wish.(I'd want 9-10+ per house: one forDNA, one forGood-StuffDNA, one forMeats, one for Flora, one for Looted Goodies, one for Generic DNA Templates andClones, one forMedComponents, one for Bone/Hides, one for Inorganics, one for Crates, and maybe even one for Personal Stuff like guns...while the server might support100 extra unique items per house per person, if that.)

4) SEE THE CITY- I really want to **SEE** a player city!! It would be nice if there was a graphic Persistent Structures Option that would allow the last 150-500 structures seen to stay visible. You run through or fly around a player city, and the buildings appear... and stay there! They don't fade as soon as you pass! And as you goaway, the whole city gets smaller, and fades... butyou still see the buildings on the horizon... and that house on the hill... and then you get closer, seeing the gardens in the middle of the city through the houses, and thecantina beyond... Close up should override the persistent-structure memory, of course.If someone destroys or rotates their house, you'll see it from thememory until you get close, and then it will fade out orfade-in rotated. People whosecomputer couldn't handle that option could turn it off or reduce the number of structures. (I don't think harvesters should count... I'd hate to have my view of the dantooine countryside marred by harvester forests....)

5) VANILLA COMBAT MOVES- Combat moveNAMES are boring, especially ‘Brawler-type’ moves. In addition, a common misconception is a new combat move will 'replace' an older combat move of similar name. But, on the combat chat tab, Unarmed Hit 1 is "Steel Hands", and Unarmed Hit 2 is "Gorax Smash". Those are cool names! Now,I **ABSOLUTELY** feel the vanilla move names should not be removed, but should exist as aliases. Many people prefer those names, and they do help keep the maneuvers sorted out. But I think it would have been fun going up the combat tree with moves like "Gronda Stomp" and "Nexu Grin" and "Forraderi Death Weave" and "Sleeping Krayt", rather than "Leg Hit 1" and "Combo 2". (Ranged profession have cooler Vanilla names than brawler professions—things like Scattershot1 and Burstshot2.) In addition, a person is less likely to think "Spitting Rawl" will replace "Gorax Smash", and then look surprised when their HAM disappearsafter a few strikes. This is not a TK post. ALL combat professions have exciting names for their maneuvers. (Quick check... what is the name for your favorite maneuver?)

6) DROID MERCHANT BARKERS- Ok, I like them. So flame me. I've checked out three vendors off of droids, and my ignore list at the starport swells each time I go through there. But, I've noticed, the Spammers spam a *LOT* more than the droids. I believe ANY NOVICE MERCHANT should be able to use the droid Merchant Barker. Of course, at the same time, I'd like to be able to target a droid, and type /Ignoredroid. (/KickDroid would also be an acceptable way to silence a Droid Merchant.)

7) VENDING MACHINE, ANYONE?- I believe ANYONEshould be able toBUY a Vending Machine, and setONE up inONE house.Of course,you also have todeposit Powerin the vending machine, in addition to payingmaintenance. Or, in lieu of having only one VendingTerminal/Droid in only one house, Imperial Law might demand theytake upone lot instead, while hired vendors don't. (Yes, I know something similar exists in the game already. On one hand, I believe ANYONE, regardless of skills, should be able to have a basic vendor unit, and it shouldn't be out of reach for the novice player.... while Hired Vendorsshouldn't take lots, power, or cost as much to maintain. On the other hand, I feel anyone who has six humanoid vendors ina house and has NO MERCHANT SKILLS is seriously exploiting those who CHOOSE to be merchants.)

8) CULTURE- Another new concept... and a concept that may be ESPECIALLY appealing to player cities of various sizes is Culture. As citizens live in a city, town, outpost, it gains Culture. Culture canget a cityspecialdistinguishing perks. Some cities might be able togain perks like Libraries, Decorations, Symbols of Imperial/Rebel Honor, Research Labs,or Interplanetary Traders. Smaller towns, though, might be able toacquire perks like Hunting Club, Excavation Teams, Ruins, Jawa Visits, or Native Interpreters.