Development Cycle Archive

Ok... Fringer back again... with another little question I'm hoping can be answered in some form or fashion here.

As far as the anticipated *Space Expansion* is being planned... Is it going to be in any way like one of these follow ideas I've been thinking about:

1) A more or less plugged in version of X-wing for the game where we *load* into a battle/mission and that's it?

2) A Rouge Squadron sort of Game Cube type play where we pilot just our vehicle solo as if it were our character...

3) Or is this going to be something massively big... something where we really do have a *real-space* environment where our *crew* boards ship... and can move around in the craft during flight and even... *gasp* man the turrents.

Really... I'm just asking for a small bone on this one... and how it'll relate to new professions or revamping some of the existing ones for Space.

Sincerely,

The Lunatic Fringer

I have an idea, but I wasn't sure where to put it.

It's so simple, that I'm not sure why it isn't already in game.

Sabacc!

What's Star Wars without Sabacc?

Whatcha think?

Quick idea:

Player City Bazaar Terminal.

Instead of having to hit 20, 30, 50 vendors individually, allow Politicians to place a City Bazaar Terminal for visitors to quickly sift through and make purchases. They'd still need to visit the vendor to retrieve the item.

Pre-requisites:

• Part of Civic Policy IV or Master Politician


• Requires Rank 4 City


• Adds 50k a week towards city maintenance

I hope this is the correct Thread to tell you some of my ideas:

I saw the changes on TC about smuggling.
I mean these are first steps in the correct direction
(sorry for my bad english, im german)

Hows about that:

- Covert Rebels will get a TEF and get attacked from the scanning Stoormtroopers, when they found something.
- Parking vehicles in Starport-Entry will activate a scan
- Stormtropper at Starports-Entry (only in Theed, Corellia and so on)
- Patrolling Stormtroppers, which visit and scan inside of structures, too
- Pets in Cantinas will be punished from patrouling Stormtroopers

@ All: Discuss about this and wait what goes Live at the end ...
@ DEV-Team: Since Release i only saw good changes and fixes. Go ahead with this ! Excellent Work so far.

Here my new idea:
Player activate Stormtroper-Spawn (call the Police/betraying):
Every Player can run to a Terminal/NPC and type there a waypoint in , after that in a random time Stoormtroppers will spawn near this waypoint and patrolling there (only within the city boundary and only one Patrolle can spawn the same time in the city) *dreaming ...*

I noticed the governorship vote for npc's on the test center, How about eventually making this availible to player politicians. Getting the person elected can require more then just votes, but when a player is elected he or she can slightly alter the alignment of the region or planet for the time being. It can also serve as a zone of control type measurement for GCW purposes.

I'm so glad that we have a forum once more where we can come and post our general thoughts. SWG Discussion was great for this, but obviously wasn't stream-lined enough to be of use to the Development Staff. So here goes.

Jedi: The Myth, The Legend, The Uberest(est) Class

The implementation of this class in the game was handled poorly, and here's why.

1.Thematically at the time period of this gamethere are onlythree trained Jedi in the galaxy: Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, and Yoda. But the Jedi system in the game gives one the sense that we are actually playing in the time period of the Old Republic.

Why not at least change the player Jedi'stitles from Jediones to another title system that conveys the fact that they are untrained Force wielders?

2.The Jedihad disctintive fighting styles and Force abilities. In this game, customization of the Force wielder is not evenan option. All Padawans are fencers, all Knights are swordsman, all Guardians are double-bladed weaponusers. In the movies, fighting styles were personal. Saber colors were personal choices as well that conveyed the personality of the Jedi behind the weapon. In this game it's just a matter of what crystal you use!

Why not re-arrange the Jedi skill trees to allow for cross-training and such? For instance, allow training in different areas of the Force as if they were seperate professions. Allow them to train in any of the regular Melee professions as well (*without Novice/Master Brawler as a prequisite, give them those bonuses innately*) and to have their lightsaber skill run off those mods. Also, have the player choose a lightsaber color when they craft their first one. Never allow it to change after that, unless they "fall" to the Darkside or embrace the Light.

3. By removing Jedi Permadeath, you have allowed for the inevitable. Regular players who play over longer periods of time will unlock their FSCS. The mistake was putting in an end-game for players and an "elite-elite" class. You risked losing accounts by an eventual sizeable portion of the community attaining this coveted status, now you protect profits by taking out the thing which would keep this distinction rare.

Why not create an FSCS system where one does not have to become a Jedi, but can take on other professions like a normal character but with special bonuses? At least then we won't end up with KOTOR Online.

4. Your implementation of Darkside and Lightside powers was also weak. Note, the argument that it was the "intent" behind the Force use that made the difference between a Dark and "Light" Jedi is false. A Lightside Jedi should NEVER be able to use Telekenesis to hurl objects at an enemy. Yoda in Episode II didn't throw the objects being thrown at him toward his attacker, he merely deflected them from causing harm. Lightside Jedi should NEVER be able to use Force Lightning, period. Yoda wasn't using Force Lightning on the Count in Episode II, either, he was merely deflecting it back at him and caused no harm.

There needs to be a distinction between Dark and Light Force Powers. Period. One is about malevolence and hate, the other about protecting the peace and acquiring knowledge. You figure out which is which.

1) First off great idea on the player hotels for player cities

- way too many houses clouding the landscape, just plain get in the way

2) also i think mayors should be able to somehow mold the landscape within the cites with the help of some droids perhaps, too much land goin to waste, and cities just look awful because of the way the landscape is laid out. if the city was disbanded for some reason the landscape should return the way it was though.

just some brainstorms,

DAGG

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Moepple wrote:

Hi,

I was asked to post some stuff here I posted in a Fansite-Forum while we discussed Testcenter Features. The point we were discussing that time was simply to increase the starwars-feeling of the game and what is good and what is not that good, and what ideas are floating around.

So here is a list how the Roleplaying Part could be improved as well as the starwarsieness of the game:

1: I would like to see Armor-Skins instead of Faction Armor. Instead of an ST-Armor you simply buy the skin of that specific part of the armor and you can drop it onto a composite armor piece. You then have an armor that looks like an ST-Armor but have the benefits of your preferred armor. For Rebels this might be the Padded Armor which can be altered that way. More peoples would then use that stuff and would wear such types of armor.

2: Instead of Weapons it should be possible to buy weapons components which can just be dropped onto a specific weapon (pistols, rifles) and which grant that bonus to that specific weapon as long as it stays in the game (until it decays). That way you can enhance the weapon you like with the stats you want with some sort of bonus, whatever this might be.

3: Bring ID-Cards into the game. Smugglers should be able to fake ID-Cards. Components for those Cards can be bought with FPs and ID-Cards have charges. Everytime you pass a Faction-Scanner one charge is removed, but you stay covert.

4: Mobile Faction Scanners which can be bought by IMP Players only. With those Faction Scanners you can scan players for their ID, if the ID is ok one Charge is removed, That way you enable IMP-Players to secure certain areas by checking for IDs of peoples within that area, a cantina for example. Those scanners should only work on one target and not as an area-scanner like scanners from a HQ do.

Two words come to mind, Grief Tool. So what happens if you don't have a card on you, tefed is what im thanking. Have mutilple people scan 1 person to remove there ID card and make them Tefed. I can see people getting groups together and usung these to force covert players to go get tefed. Im not a heavy combat class, a TKA or Commando can kill me faster than i can draw my gun and make a dent.

5: Vendors of Merchants should be able to become Factioned and only sell to factioned and/or neutral players. Merchants should also be able to hire a team of NPCs to secure the area around the shop and/or vendor from people on the banlist and those of other factions. Those Shopguards should increase Maintenance for the Vendor and should need a Fix amount of money everytime they are killed and need to be replaced by new guards.

I can see people farming these just for kicks, go to a faction city and on commando could take them all out with out breaking a sweat.

6: Starports within Cities which are controlled by a specific faction should be guarded and have a faction-scanner beside the ticket-terminal. Only when you enter the building you are scanned and guards notice your presence. That way you can still travel while within the starport without geting in trouble if you have a ticket (bought by a friend) or walk trough the city. Travelling routes are not save for everybody if you are part of the GCW

Well, hope you like those Ideas.

Read ya.

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These should stay ideas. They are pretty good, but also total rule changers, player dont like rules changed, see any crackdown post.