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It's bad enough that there are more rebels on the servers than Imps, but nerfing the ATST just makes the whole precept of the game ludicrous. No one can control the will of the public to pick sides, but right now, the Rebs are the ruling faction! Remind me who the outgunned, fighting for their lives faction is?

Oh yeah, silly me, it's us Imperials!

About time the crackdown appeared too, so many places are full of Covert rebs strutting about (and why not, they can get away with it), that their might as well not be an Empire! I was in Theed a day back, watching coverts rebs just wander past a Scout Trooper. We need patrols of troopers as a covert presence everywhere but remote areas of the galaxy, Yavin4 for example. It has to be harder to be a rebel than it is right now, or there will be no point in being a law abiding Imp citizen!

Perhaps I should clarify, and re-assert a few points. I must first apologize for the tone of my last message, as I was a little worked up at the time.

I was never complaining that I couldn't kill an ATST as a rifleman. I don't believe I should be able to. I have no desire to be a commando. I am a rifleman now, and I've always been a rifleman and will continue to be one. My point was that regular ranged professions cannot kill an ATST with any level of ease, and the profession that does kill ATSTs with ease is the commando profession, but it is designed to take them down. I will grant you the point that perhaps ATSTs should not be so vulnerable to fire DOT attacks, since the flame thrower is meant to burn flesh, not metal.

I will stand by my point that ATSTs and all faction pets should not be used in PvE. That is not what they are meant for. And yes, it is the fault of the ones who camped Krayts with ATSTs, and yes, all ATSTs and faction pets should be banned from PvE to prevent things like that. That is what creature handlers are for. If you want a pet to protect you from aggressive mobs, use your mount, buy a bio-engineered pet, or become a creature handler. Allowing faction pets to be used in PvE is giving people (especially ATST owners) creature handler abilities without forcing them to spend skill points on it. Also, the ATST was challenge level 125 last time I looked, that's more levels than any creature handler can call, and is almost as much as TWO creatures handlers can call (master creature handlers that is). Explain to me how it would be fair and balanced for a master bounty hunter with some medic skills (randomly picked combat profession with all skill points used up) to field a pet (yes, the ATST is a pet) at a challenge level of 125 that could help him in killing the toughest creatures on Dathomir? ATSTs are supposed to give the Empire an advantage in the Galactic Civil War, not in the senseless slaughter of rancors for the sole benefit of the owner of the ATST.

Also, Nahylan, since yours was the message I clicked reply on and I'm looking at it as I type, the idea of being COVERT is that you are supposed to look neutral. There's a good reason that the covert rebels simply walked right past the scout trooper in Theed, to the scout trooper they are neutrals until they get a TEF or go overt. Those covert rebels are supposed to look neutral. You only know they're covert because you either looked at their badges, they told you, or you have seen them overt before. I haven't read much on the new crackdown, so I don't really know how it's goign to work, but I agree that for the purposes of immersion and realism, there should be more of an imperial presence in traditionally imperial cities on traditionally imperal planets. Naboo, for example, is traditionally Imperial. There really shouldn't be much OVERT rebel presence there. Covert rebels, however, should walk around with, perhaps, only a chance of being discovered. The same goes for covert Imperials. For additional immersion, I believe there should be some secondary factions. Jabba, Lady Valarian, and Borvo are all criminal factions. I myself would likely join Jabba's faction, or perhaps even Lady Valarian's faction (tusks are sexy...lol).

One more thing before I quit and go to dinner. I'm pretty sure I mentioned this in my last post, but the first response I got from my post seems to have ignored it. I said before that the TEF and GTEF bugs with the ATST should definately be fixed. The ATST should attack players with a TEF or a GTEF. That is a definate problem and needs to be fixed.

In my opine AT-ST's should be a combat vehicle and if the driver gets killed the Rebel the killed him should be able to get in it and use it against the imperial forces. Maybe if they made a mechanic class that made bike car's and space ships could also repair At's in there personal garage. AND FIX THE STARPORT BUG ON VEHICLES.

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AT-ST should be a factional vehicle.

If it's owner was inside piloting it then it wouldn't be useless and just stand there.

It wouldn't be able to be used inside buildings.

Players would only be able to use one at once.

They could be repaired in garages (at a higher cost).

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To do this and make it work however....

AT-ST should have a higher kinetic resistance (TKM's etcshouldn't be able to own an AT-ST) >70%.

Rebels should be able to get commando or heavy weapons experts Factional Pets, this would give rebels a chance and encourage the use of factional pets again (the current rebel factional pets aren't worth the points they cost).

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ALL faction pets need balancing with the upcoming combat changes, AT-ST's and Stormtroopers are wayyy beyond any rebel faction pets. 3 rebel marines or such would be lucky to defeat a single stormtrooper, at 3-1 odds any soldier should get owned. At a ratio of 2-1 you should expect to defeat the single opponent but with casualties/severe wounds etc.