Game Guides Archive
Thread: Space Expansion
Valeforth
Thu Feb 19, 2004 6:23 am
#209
Sagen, I have read somewhere that there is a possibility for a new pool of points especially for the new proffessions, so you wouldnt need to drop any skills, I will see if I can find it and provide a link.
Carhrid
Thu Feb 19, 2004 8:18 am
#210
Good, glad a new set of skill points was mentioned.
What i really want to be able to do is really modify my ship. Better engines, shields, weapons, power cores, armour, missiles, Comm's syetems, Droid interfaces, Computers, Hyperspace drives, engine overchargers, weapon overcharges.... etc etc.
I expect we want mineable asteroids, gas mining in Nebula's, plasmagathering in the suns, power gathering with solar cells.... maybe even space stations that act like factional bases.
I also think things like Star Destroyers should be in the hands of players. They should be NPC only.
Ragemaster9999
Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:09 am
#211
Good post and all but seriously, we need to FINISH the original game BEFORE releasing an expansion!!!
childofcorrellia
Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:17 pm
#212
Alot of debate here and this late in the game I am not sure my feedback will be figured into the whole pic by the devs but here I go.
Okay, I this is Star Wars I want "eye-candy" (as someone put it earlier)! I want to get up from the cockpit and headback to the gametable while we are on autopilot. I want to have a bunk. I want the feel!
I want an Astromech droid in the back repairring the power couplings while I am trying to shake the authorities. I want to land my frieghter in the hills of Tattooine and take my landspeeder into town to avoid "Imperiel entanglements". I want to dock my ship with that Imperial space station to drop off the Rebel marines who are going to break into the lab and extract the scientist working on their latest superweapon. I want to make the Kessel run!!! I want to go to a MT or NPC (Jabba's minions)and get a job carrying cargo from Correllia to Bespin!!!
Ok, I'll calm down now. I just get really excited by the potential of this aspect of the game.
I would like to see some changes made to the spaceport travel system to make chartering flights a viable option and source of income. May increase the wait time on interplanetary shuttles and/or increase the costs. Of course this would have to be phased into to allow the player end of that economy to be established and balance itself out.
Another point that has been brought up is having set ships for sale to avoid price-gouging that existed at the begining of the game in many areas. Look what has occurred the economy has balanced out. The same thing will happen with the SE. Getting ships out to the public initially will probably require a Master level Artisan schematic for a basic ship and getting folks running on the Starship Engineer profession.
I think space should be scaled on the Planetary System level, meaning that planets that are in the same system, and not require one to load one in space. For example I am on Correlia and wish to fly to Drall, I would load on take-off and fly to Drall and load on landing, much like driving my speeder from Bestine to Anchorhead (except that I dont have to load into cities).
On a side note I think this expansion would be the perfect opportunity to introduce two "neutral" but opposing PC joinablefactions, Black Sun and the Hutts. Or maybe that's another expansion in it's own.
Done for now. I'll go back to waiting not so patiently for some offical word.
IdahoJedi
Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:30 pm
#213
Imperio59 wrote:But wait! he's defenseles, so my shields are not needed! I check my ship's interface and i uninstall the shields and one laser cannon. It takes about 10 seconds for it to complete. I then mount the misile launcher, while still following my prey! So it takes another 30 seconds until it's a green light! Now i've got you! freighter scum! I lock on him and fire a volley of 5 missiles at once! I reload the launcher (wich takes about 20 seconds)...
Good idea with everything but this little part. How could you remount somthing while going really fast in space? To that matter, where would you store that missle launcher, in a non exictant cargo hold of a tie fighter?
The sheilds would be easey to uninstall, but he missle launcher would be imposible.
IdahoJedi
Thu Feb 19, 2004 4:11 pm
#214
Eans wrote:When's the supposed release date gunna be?
August. Ya right! LIke they would ever release it on time
JulianSpeed
Thu Feb 19, 2004 4:58 pm
#215
This is a game IdahoJedi. If laser cannons can be installed there is no reason why missle launcher could not be deployed on ship. Remember the last Star Wars movie? Jengo Fett was using missles.
JulianSpeed
Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:02 pm
#216
childofcorellia you touch on some really good points..
Yeah you said the key word: Feel I want it to feel like Im in a ship not a cockpit box.
Your idea on travelling to planets near each oterh like travelling to cities on the same would be sweet. You might as well call it seamless travel. Would be nice if they figured out a way to do that.
JulianSpeed
Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:10 pm
#217
Ragemaster999 - finish the current game..you dont finish it. Did you mean iron out the bugs and on going issues with the current state of the game? Did you mean you want to see the game mature more before talking about expansion?
Well Rage rather you know this or not the developers are working on the expansion right now and last I heard there will be some news during E3. I dont think SWG the current game will be finished in two months.
I think its ok to talk about space stuff now..we are all just trying to get a head start :-) No- I think on a serious note alot of people posting here are just excited about the expansion AND DO NOT WANT TO BE DISSAPOINTED. We all have our own ideas and on what we want to see in expansion and thats why we post.
Will this thread or threads like it survive until E3? Guess we will see.
Slimjimshane
Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:18 pm
#218
I cant wait for the expansion and all your ideas are great and i couldnt say anything more.
Crazyguy111
Fri Feb 20, 2004 12:49 am
#221
Wwll we pretty much know we won't be ale to move in spawce but I'd LOVE to move around in hyperspace. I think I'd buy a YT-1300 just for the Sabaak table.
And if you cannnot tell this is a bump post
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