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Thread: Whats the Star Wars Universe without big ugly bulk freighters?
KrazyKyle
Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:38 pm
#131
Well, Natty, I'd love to see some PCs in bulk freighters 
Not me, but I sure wouldn't mind flying with some, for the reasons some have listed. Big, endless space for modifications, Battering-ram mentality... A good ally in a pinch, for sure Can take the beating (hopefully!) while the snub fighter allies go to town. A great distraction, especially if designed as such. And, heck, packone with explosives and send another to distract the swarms of TIEs, backboth with escort fighters, andyou have a bone-a-fied ISD killer on your hands. Just aim it for that bridge! After taking the shields down on the thing,that is 
Not me, but I sure wouldn't mind flying with some, for the reasons some have listed. Big, endless space for modifications, Battering-ram mentality... A good ally in a pinch, for sure Can take the beating (hopefully!) while the snub fighter allies go to town. A great distraction, especially if designed as such. And, heck, packone with explosives and send another to distract the swarms of TIEs, backboth with escort fighters, andyou have a bone-a-fied ISD killer on your hands. Just aim it for that bridge! After taking the shields down on the thing,that is And the idea of PC-controlled Capital ships is not totally crazy...
What about guild-owned Capital ships? Maybe not somethingas bad-ass as an ISD, but a Lancer or Carrack, or Blockade Runner or something for Rebels, would make sense
Certainly would give the bigger guilds a bonus... and a target for up-and-coming and opposing factionguilds, too
And am I the only one who wants a Y-Wing? That's the only fighter I want. Give me that big pig with the Long Probe option, and I'll outlast the rest Bigger engines, faster hyperdrive, better shield generator, maybe better weapons, I could kill anything out there. Something tough and fast. Who cares if it can turn? Make it fast enough to outrun a TIE, you have a serious contender already That's what mine's gonna be, an interceptor. Hit-and-run. And she can go the distance
Bigger engines, faster hyperdrive, better shield generator, maybe better weapons, I could kill anything out there. Something tough and fast. Who cares if it can turn? Make it fast enough to outrun a TIE, you have a serious contender already That's what mine's gonna be, an interceptor. Hit-and-run. And she can go the distance Anyone else out there have a dream for a bad-ass Y-Wing? Come on, speak up, stop the X-Wing oppression! LOL
KrazyKyle
Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:45 pm
#132
Holy crap guys, you guys need to post some of the brilliant ideas you've come up with somewhere where the devs will see 'em! I doubt they read threads like this... Some of those ideas are great, and I wouldn't put it past the devs to not think of a lot of this. Put those ideas out there, make some waves!
NattyDreadlock
Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:10 pm
#133
Maybe we can request a sticky!!!
Is there a JTL correspondent?
Society2
Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:26 pm
#134
You aren't alone! I too want a big ugly freighter.
Something that turns about as well as a schoolbus full of cement.
The thing is, it'd have the hugest beefiest damned hyperdrive engines you can buy. It'd most obviously be a favorite of the smuggler and/or merchants and there could be transport missions in space loaded with danger. Like running a huge spice shipment past an imperial blockade. Maybe running deadeye to rebels or something...
*dreams*
Something that turns about as well as a schoolbus full of cement.
The thing is, it'd have the hugest beefiest damned hyperdrive engines you can buy. It'd most obviously be a favorite of the smuggler and/or merchants and there could be transport missions in space loaded with danger. Like running a huge spice shipment past an imperial blockade. Maybe running deadeye to rebels or something...
*dreams*
Jerriks Calhok
NattyDreadlock
Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:36 pm
#135
There is obvious so much that can be done with a freighter systems added in game. The fact that JTL is ignoring that is insane. We have discussed game dynamics, missions, etc in this post alone that far exceeds any game dynamics or imerssion that the current build of JTL will represent.
I can believe the Devs are overlooking us so easily.
Haschel
Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:49 pm
#136
Oh yeah, I've got dreams for my Y-Wing...pump up that ion cannon and start shutting down TIE's left and right...and while they're sitting there as useless hunks of scrap, have a luxury yacht pull up behind me with a band on board playing starwars1. *grin*
Society2
Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:50 pm
#137
OH SNAP. I just thought of something!
Somebody buys a bunch of stuff from a distant off world bazaar, and they get a window saying "Do you wish to mark these items for delivery to this location? If you accept, you must wait for a freighter to deliver these items." (yes, no)
Now, you add a "deliveries" tab on the bazaar that shows a list of goods, and where they need to be delivered to. You pick up as many of these things as you can depending on the cargo capacity of your ship. (fighters=SMALL capacity. Freighters, higher capacity.. also depends on your ships modifications) And for every unit you deliver, you'd get maybe 1k. (maybe make resources be counted so that 1000=1 unit)
So lets say you were delivering 20 units of metal, 5 units of chemicals, and 10 units of weapons, you would get 35k.
Illegal goods would be worth more, but you'd have to be a smuggler to safely transport them, and maybe modify your ship for secret compartments, lowering overall carrying capacity, but making it harder for the empire to locate illegal goods.
Somebody buys a bunch of stuff from a distant off world bazaar, and they get a window saying "Do you wish to mark these items for delivery to this location? If you accept, you must wait for a freighter to deliver these items." (yes, no)
Now, you add a "deliveries" tab on the bazaar that shows a list of goods, and where they need to be delivered to. You pick up as many of these things as you can depending on the cargo capacity of your ship. (fighters=SMALL capacity. Freighters, higher capacity.. also depends on your ships modifications) And for every unit you deliver, you'd get maybe 1k. (maybe make resources be counted so that 1000=1 unit)
So lets say you were delivering 20 units of metal, 5 units of chemicals, and 10 units of weapons, you would get 35k.
Illegal goods would be worth more, but you'd have to be a smuggler to safely transport them, and maybe modify your ship for secret compartments, lowering overall carrying capacity, but making it harder for the empire to locate illegal goods.
NattyDreadlock
Fri Aug 20, 2004 8:05 pm
#138
Welcome aboard Society2!
Aslong as we keep providing plausible and viable ideas for us, the Devs wont be able to justify ignoring us!
Society2
Fri Aug 20, 2004 8:12 pm
#139
And as far as escorting goes, even if they are just terminal delivery missions, give them a "danger" level depending on how dangerous of a place you are delivering too (example, delivering to tatooine) and have mission payouts the same as they are now.
Chew on this.
You take 2 missions worth 100k each, both ranked as difficulty 99 missions. You're hauling some uber-precious items that everybody wants, and word has gotten out about your delivery, and the pirates are lookin for you. There is no way in hell you will make this run solo.
Luckily, you've invested in heavy blaster turrets, the finest shields, and the thickest plating money can buy. You've got four skilled gunners manning the top, bottom, front, and rear turrets. But even with this, it is a suicide run.
So how do you get through? You've got two of the best freelance pilots in the galexy flying escort with you, thats how. The odds are even, its pay day.
Really? How awesome does that sound!? It'd totally bring back the need for grouping, at least in space.
Chew on this.
You take 2 missions worth 100k each, both ranked as difficulty 99 missions. You're hauling some uber-precious items that everybody wants, and word has gotten out about your delivery, and the pirates are lookin for you. There is no way in hell you will make this run solo.
Luckily, you've invested in heavy blaster turrets, the finest shields, and the thickest plating money can buy. You've got four skilled gunners manning the top, bottom, front, and rear turrets. But even with this, it is a suicide run.
So how do you get through? You've got two of the best freelance pilots in the galexy flying escort with you, thats how. The odds are even, its pay day.
Really? How awesome does that sound!? It'd totally bring back the need for grouping, at least in space.
NattyDreadlock
Sat Aug 21, 2004 3:05 am
#141
Im on Naritus...sorry
I'd look forward to creating convoys. It would be great. Quietly gathering a bunch of fellow freighter pilots together and suddenly popping up over a planet. We'd get in formation and take off like a wave of steel. The Iron Tsunami we'd be called
NattyDreadlock
Sat Aug 21, 2004 4:09 am
#142
My Gawd! I'd be a darn JTL school bus driver if they give us descent freighters and some transport missions.
I'd deliver newspapers, I'd be the bantha milkman, the clean linen man, the Cor-Sec uniform delivery guy, the Naboo garbage man, the fleet oiler, the Tatooine ice cream man, the Roto-Rooter man...anything!
Geesh!