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• Mon Calamari Cruisers
  
• Medium transport
  
• Nebulon-B Frigate
  
• A-Wing
  
• Y-Wing
  
• X-Wing
  
• B-Wing
  
• Imperial -class Star Destroyer
  
• Interdictor Cruiser
  
• Lambda-class Shuttle
  
• TIE Interceptor
  
• TIE Fighter
  
• TIE Bomber
  
• TIE Advanced
  
• Yachts
  
• Firespray -class Patrol and Attack Ship
  
• YT-2400 light freighter
  
• YT-1300 Transport
  
• Defense and Patrol (Skipray)Blastboat
  
• Z-95 Head Hunter
  
• Correlian Corvette
  
• T-16 Skyhopper

• Remodeled Star ports for Major Cities, to be more like Theed Star Port with room for Multiple PC space Craft to be present. Bigger overall size for Spaceports with a couple individual docking bays for PC Space Craft. It should be like a bunch of mini star ports, to accommodate PC Space craft.
  
• Place-able Landing platforms for Player Cities.
  
• Be able to Call your ship from your datapad while in an empty public Landing Platform, Star port, Docking Bay or Hanger.
  
• Be able to Call your ship from your datapad while in an empty private Landing Platform, assuming it belongs to you and or you have rights to use it.
  
• Be able to walk around inside your ship while docked/Landed.
  
• Be able to allow others to walk inside your ship while docked/Landed.
  
• Be able to take off with people inside from Landing Platforms, Star Ports, Docking Bays and Hangers.
  
• Be able to walk around inside your ship or friend’s ships while in space.
  
• Large player owned ships able to be boarded by pirate and Imperial NPC's.
  
• A pilot profession that requires xp but not sp.
  
• Ability to give ships unique names.
  
• All Ships have the ability to land in the Wilderness. Scouts can Make Special Camps to call one-man ships in the Wilderness. Rangers can make special camps to call Large Multi person Ships in the Wilderness.Ability to Dock with certain other pc ships in Space.
  
• Add Space Stations and Space Docks you can land/dock in, to meet up with other players in space.
  
• Ability to Customize and modify ships.
  
• Ability to illegally modify ships, possibly with the Smuggler Profession.
  
• Ability to enter hyperspace/jump to light speed.
  
• Ability to man gun mounts in large ships. Gun Mounts that work in space and while landed.
  
• Loading Screen only comes up after take off and during re-entry.
  
• Small ships have low-level atmospheric flight capabilities but will travel slower as opposed to space. For example, one-person ships, Skiprays, patrol ships, Snow Speeders. Taking off in smaller ships defaults to generic altitude. Manually flying up from generic altitude brings up space loading screen. Re-Entry brings up planet loading screen. Smaller ships default to generic altitude after loading for landing options or wilderness landings.
  
• For Larger ships, there are no low-level flight capabilities. For example, Star Destroyers, Cruisers, Yachts, Large Cargo Ships & Frigates. landing locations are limited and must be selected before re-entry by picking from a drop down list or typing /Land (Location). A timer will come up displaying a wait time until there is a spot available to land at said location.

Please Pay attention!!! These are several facts and must-haves

First off for you people who want skill points to fly etc. Skill points would seriously hamper professions are use flying as a mainstay, ie. Smuggler, Bounty Hunter, Commando. And if you would have watched the E-3 Demo for the Space Expansion the controls look like a mix between Rogue Squadron and X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter, therefore there will be no space "skill mods".

Yes I agree a spaceship should require the cooperation of several crafting classes to build, (more is better) and some examples of this coop will be found below. HOWEVER, Ships seriously shouldn't cost an arm and a leg to maintain, expensive yes, possibly equal to what a medium or large house would cost, but with the maintanance of a small house, or perhaps none at all except for battle damage.

Crafting Cooperation: Several Configurations

Master Artisan: Ship's Hull and final Assembly

Armorsmith: Ship's shielding and armor plating

Weaponsmith: Ship's weapon and tractor beam systems

Droid Engineer: Ship's Navcomputer, Hyperdrive Motivator

Tailor: Furnishings and Trim (on larger ships)

Chef: Ships Galley Area (on larger ships)

Please Pay attention!!! These are several facts and must-haves

First off for you people who want skill points to fly etc. Skill points would seriously hamper professions are use flying as a mainstay, ie. Smuggler, Bounty Hunter, Commando. And if you would have watched the E-3 Demo for the Space Expansion the controls look like a mix between Rogue Squadron and X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter, therefore there will be no space "skill mods".

Yes I agree a spaceship should require the cooperation of several crafting classes to build, (more is better) and some examples of this coop will be found below. HOWEVER, Ships seriously shouldn't cost an arm and a leg to maintain, expensive yes, possibly equal to what a medium or large house would cost, but with the maintanance of a small house, or perhaps none at all except for battle damage.

Crafting Cooperation: Several Configurations

Master Artisan: Ship's Hull and final Assembly

Armorsmith: Ship's shielding and armor plating

Weaponsmith: Ship's weapon and tractor beam systems

Droid Engineer: Ship's Navcomputer, Hyperdrive Motivator

Tailor: Furnishings and Trim (on larger ships)

Chef: Ships Galley Area (on larger ships)

Ommer when you take into consideration all the components to make a shipI could see where it would easily be quite expensive to buy a bigger ship. I could easily see just when the expansion first comes out some folks are going to sell some ships for a million credits easy-which I could afford...

Access to medium and large ships:

I hope there will be large commercial ships available. By large I mean something maybe 2 or 3 times the size of a Correllian Frig., or 2 or 3 times the size of the mill. Falcon to be exact.I dont mean something as big as a Calamari Cruiser? The Calamari ships should be in the game but I dont think you will own one-maybe rent one from the Rebel Alliance if you have the faction points or rank and skills.

NPC crew for hire:

For the ships that require 10-20+ crew why not have NPC's for hire that you can pay. It could be similar to the maintanace cost you pay to keepharvesters running but you would pay the NPC crew weekly and not daily. Im only speaking of the larger ships.You could do it for smaller ships also but what would be the point when you could have friend(s) guild members as part of the crew. The problem here is that most real players non-npc players willwant to own and run their own ship. I know I will want to own my own ship. With that being said dont you think it will benecessary to have NPC's for hire to help run theship?

well i am not going to read every single message .

But I like the ideas I have read , and agree with most of them ...The one thing most important to me along with what you guys have already mentioned is :

Smooth transition travelling from outer space to landing on the planet.

No more zoning like you do when you take the space shuttle .

Maybe when you hit hyperdrive it will "zone " etc...but when I am flying outside of Naboo I would like to see my self getting closer , entering the atmosphere , getting closer to land following my waypoint to Karen and finally landing . Seemless landing .

When leaving 1 system to another via hyperdrive by all means zone while we are in hyperspace , but once we enter that system no zoning ,,

My fourth post on this thread (this is the thread that never ends!)

In reply to commander's post (see last page), I think (or at least i hope) you will see most if not all of the ships you mentioned, and hopefully if second prize on the recentscavanger hunt is any indication, the detail of the ships should be pretty good. If there is one thing lucasarts knows how to do, it's flight sims. They know this is what everybody has been dreaming about since this game came out. They would probably love to make it work like a big game of XvsT, but they have to think about lag and scope of this project. Most likely we will be using a mouse to fly the ship, yeah a joystick would be cool but this is a role-playing game..not a flight sim..or a first person shooter.

Just to touch up again on Hyperspace (see last post). If they do institute hyperspace at all, they will probably do it my way (no this is not my ego talking), why...because currently they won't even let you shoot from your speeder bike (which is supposed to have a laser mounted to it already, see ROTJ). So theymost likelywon't let you shoot and hyperjump. It's either that or you won't be able to shoot from your X-wing at all. (How lame would that be!)

Anothertwist to all this would be in order to craft(or use) a fighter (X-wingor Y-wing, no Impshere), you would need to procure an astromech droid (kinda like trying to make jedi, if you want the cool ships..you're gonna pay for 'em)

And finally, I hope they do model this after XvsT. Why? Because I used to love flying my Y-wing right thru wimpy Tie Fighters (Imps beware...muhahahaha).

SilentHtr- Help me out maybe I missed something. What does firing a battery or turret from your ship have anything to do with not being able to jump? Is this a given from maybe a boardgame that if you fire a weapon you can't jump?I could see if you were in an asteroid field, ship badly damaged, to close to a planet's grav-pull or some other reason. You are being chasedwhilst in your ship and you are in the clear you,enough time has passed to do Nav Calc for a safe jump etc.., you fire a missle at the ship pursuing then punch the jump button. Hyperspace will be in the game. Well let me rephrase that- its safe to assume there will some form of hyperspace.

Llew... I dont think space travel will be seamless. Besides how can you have seamless travel when you have to factor in hyperspace travel?