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Thread: Will Privateers have a taste in the PVP Galatic War?
RankorCity wrote:
Why should you?
After all, you are neutral. Same as the ground game.
Unless you want to be able to be attacked by Rebels and Imperials, and vice versa
Let me think about this response... because mercs are neutral until they find an employer yet you can't tell me they didn't engage in combat with both rebels and imps. The Hutts fought with the Empire, more of raiding the convoys but that's still attacking them. Privateers, historically, are people hired to fight against acertain faction or those that just go out fighting for themselves are pirates. if it's the same as the ground game it's not a big deal for me I'll just go rebel but I would rather go as a merc/privateer.
HoboFish wrote:
Sorry if im mistaken since I'm not in beta but I thought that you could be imperial and be a privateer and still fight rebels in space.
No.
You can only be an Imperial pilot. Or Rebel pilot. Or Privateer. No combination thereof. And you can only fly ships that you are certified for in your profession.
RankorCity wrote:
HoboFish wrote:
Sorry if im mistaken since I'm not in beta but I thought that you could be imperial and be a privateer and still fight rebels in space.
No.
You can only be an Imperial pilot. Or Rebel pilot. Or Privateer. No combination thereof. And you can only fly ships that you are certified for in your profession.
umm thats not what he said. He said that he thought that if he was a imperial on the ground and a privateer pilot he can go overt to fight rebel players in space whilest using the privateer ships which I'm pretty sure is possible.
Kakron21 wrote:
Who knows, maybe there will be "battlefield"-like areas in space (that work) that will allow you to decide which side you want to fight on and let you go out there and beat on whichever side you want to.
that would be too smart of SOE to implement....dumb it down a bit
what's more likley is that you cant even fire at them or more or less enter the "battlefield"
Kilour wrote:
RankorCity wrote:
HoboFish wrote:
Sorry if im mistaken since I'm not in beta but I thought that you could be imperial and be a privateer and still fight rebels in space.
No.
You can only be an Imperial pilot. Or Rebel pilot. Or Privateer. No combination thereof. And you can only fly ships that you are certified for in your profession.
umm thats not what he said. He said that he thought that if he was a imperial on the ground and a privateer pilot he can go overt to fight rebel players in space whilest using the privateer ships which I'm pretty sure is possible.
And like he said no you can't. You have to become or "join" a pilot faction through a pilot recruiter and can only fight against enemies of that faction in space. So if you are an imperial on the ground and a Privateer in space then no you would not be able to engage Rebel pilots. You would actually have to give up your privateer pilot faction and go the thr Imperial pilot recruiter and join, then you would be able to engage rebels in space.
The ground based faction and the spaced based faction, for all intents and purposes, is not linked. Your ground based faction has no effect on you spaced based faction. They are seperate (at least the last time I played JTL beta). That was and still is my biggest complaint about JTL. IMHO you should have to be a faction member on the ground before you can become a factioned pilot and your choice of pilot faction should be based solely on your ground faction. In other words if your a rebel on the ground then you can only be a rebel pilot or privateer pilot, an imperial can only be a Imp or privateer pilot. I also think that your space kills should also count in your faction points in both space and ground games.
IMHO JTL should seem more seamless with the ground game. After all it is an "expansion" meaning to expand upon the original. For me it feels like I am playing two entirely seperate games based on the same premise and not and expansion of the original.
There are areas like that in JTL, the Kassel (SPL?)run is one I think. These are areas where if you venture into then anyone can attack you, regardless of faction. They are meant to be, for the most part, unrestricted PvP areas where anyone can attack anyone else flyingthrough them.
Jakkal_Darkwind wrote:
Kakron21 wrote:
Who knows, maybe there will be "battlefield"-like areas in space (that work) that will allow you to decide which side you want to fight on and let you go out there and beat on whichever side you want to.
that would be too smart of SOE to implement....dumb it down a bit
what's more likley is that you cant even fire at them or more or less enter the "battlefield"