Items And Loot Archive
Thread: Friday Feature, May 27th New Vehicles
OhBuggah
Fri May 27, 2005 7:06 pm
#40
Starcloud wrote:
I don't know why, but I think the AB-1 is cute. :-)
It's because it's like a VW Bug
I love it.
Cyberspud
Fri May 27, 2005 7:28 pm
#41
The AB-1 ... best. Speeder. Ever.
Drive one, you'll see.
Speed doesn't matter much when your ride looks so good...
Hehe
MasterArtisanPell
Fri May 27, 2005 7:48 pm
#42
I LOVE the new V-35. I know its not very fast but its wonderful for RolePlay. I already run a taxi service in my RP city.
Rypht
Fri May 27, 2005 8:09 pm
#43
Does anyone know what the X31 is? they say its an existing model but I've never seen it
omadnay
Fri May 27, 2005 10:41 pm
#44
KapowBzapp wrote:
I'd like to be able to /offerRide to my faction pet, ie. Rebel soldier or stormtrooper. They have to follow me everywhere on foot, and there's a perfectly good passenger seat.
After all they can already join groups. If extending /offerRide to non-players would be onerous to code, then maybe non-ATST faction pets and humanoid droids could understand a "get in the car" command.
That is a great idea.
I always wanted to carry my droids in my vehicle (Before you could call them without a camp), but at least humanoid NPC Pets should be able to do this now.
That would be a great addition to this multi-passenger feature.
Make it so. (Oops, wrong universe...)
- Omadda Szool
Kauri
May the force be with you.
davelope
Fri May 27, 2005 10:43 pm
#45
it's the one you get for being a brand new character, along with 75k... on servers since the launch of jtl.
looks exactly like x34 but slower
imspaced01
Sat May 28, 2005 1:00 am
#46
duurron wrote:
new vehicles are cool and stuff, but where is the sound of them???
Its a 4 stroke boss!
aazatgrabya
Sat May 28, 2005 3:03 am
#47
I do like the new speeders, it's nice to see a little more variety. I do have one concern though, once everyone has seen the new vehicles I'm afraid everyone will revert back to the swoop simply for speed. Sure you willfind a few players with style that'll pick the speeder that matches their new winged hotpants, but the rest of the galaxy will be fixing their speed addiction. To keep the varietyin the game (whichI guess wasthe intention) how about introducing an additional experimentation parameter that controls speed? Each schematic of course will have a max/min level that is individual, but you maythen find an AB-1 faster than a swoop on the bazaar.
Wolveryne40
Sat May 28, 2005 3:11 am
#48
Funny how a mini cooper looking speeder anda city bus looking dealy all take the same resources to make isn't it?
Wonder if my kids go cart has as much metal as the m-1 tank as well... hmm
tell us again how this is not mass produced eq stuff?
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Wonder if my kids go cart has as much metal as the m-1 tank as well... hmm
tell us again how this is not mass produced eq stuff?
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TheTemplar
Sat May 28, 2005 7:00 am
#49
What was the purpose of wasting development time on this update? Don't you have more important stuff to work on?
This update provided us with 3 new vehicles which were fun and exiting, for about 10 seconds. There is no purpose to drive anything buta swoop really except for role-play and socialevents. Everyone has a swoop and it's still the best vehicle around. Since everyone has a swoop there is no need to ride together. Why didn't you provide us with a vehicle that excel at something? I have used the Ab-1 and V-35 the first slightly faster than the second but both are absolutely horrid to use in terrain. The V-35 basically stands still as soon as it drives up the slightest hill.
JediGohan
Sat May 28, 2005 8:48 am
#50
from what we've seen in RotJ shouldnt the speederbike carry 2 people?
and thanks for the new speederbike sounds, finally someone took to notice how it sounded nothing like it did from the movie and was actually more annoying, like a room filled with thousands of bees
and I dont understand, I thought the BARC was going to have 2 people? last minute change or something?
omadnay
Sat May 28, 2005 10:21 am
#51
TheTemplar wrote:... except for role-play and social events.
I understand what you were saying, it would be nice if each vehicle had more viable uses/benefits/disadvantages and I do not disagree with that.
However, I just wanted to point out to everyone that these two elements, "role-play and social events", were once designed to be equal factes of this game as any other game-mechanic (combat, crafting, etc.)and it would be nice to not see them mentioned as throw-away mentions of uselessness.
So, I think it's great to see these "simple" things implimented.
While the SWG community has all-but-lost these conceptes, hopefully part of the Post-CU purge will bring a focus of these gaming elements back into focus.
A future of this game that has more of role-playing and immersion rather than speed-grinding and math-cruncing min/max-ing gaming sessions.
Hop in your vehicle, take a ride from Ancorhead to Mos Eisley (Avoid the Baddies) and pop into the Cantina for a few cold ones.
Then gather your group and go on an adventure.
As opposed to: Get fixed up for combat, go to adventure planet, race back and forth from mission terminal to mission lairs on the fastest vehcile available.
You may say that I'm a dreamer...
Well (I hope) I'm not the only one.
May the force be with you.
- Omadda Szool
Kauri
KapowBzapp
Sat May 28, 2005 11:22 am
#52
The new vehicles aren't entirely impractical. Now it's less likely someone in a group will have to walk because their bike was destroyed. In fact a group can reduce its total risk of losing vehicles by packing everyone into multi-seaters; that way fewer vehicles are vulnerable at any time.