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Thread: YT-1300 a petition for SANITY (Why does this get deleted?)
MadcowwithSARS
Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:18 pm
#14
Lets try to salvage at least some sense of the star wars universe with this expansion. The falcon is a multi passenger ship plain and simple live with it or choose another proffession. Did you see Han try to blast that lone Tie Fighter in Episode 4 that was heading to the Death star, No he was trying to Jam its transmissions and hi it with a missle or something. Why else would it have taken him 5 minutes to lock onto that Tie. haha I sure didnt see any blaster fire from the Falcon firing forward. Only time iseen the falcon fire was when they shot those few Ties down in Episode 4 and shot the Tie next to vader in the trench. That Tie was shot by the turret gun because han wan in the turret and chewy was flying. You can tell cause han had the Headset on that you wear in the turret.
Moricky
Sat Oct 30, 2004 3:35 pm
#15
sadly the neutrals get no master fighter equal to the B-wing ot oppressor, this is what neuties lack and we really need, the YT would loose its practicality concidering all MP steer like a pregnant 3 legged bantha in a china shop. so, we need some kinda new BS fighter, or a new HUTT fighter. skipray blastboat please. 
or somthing prety kick arse would be veryveryvery nice. just a ship at master cert. go ahhhhhn!
or somthing prety kick arse would be veryveryvery nice. just a ship at master cert. go ahhhhhn!
Felix_Deco
Sat Oct 30, 2004 3:42 pm
#16
im all with you.. i didnt think it was the otherway.. u really cant use lazers from the cocpit? .. hell dev what are you thinking?..
Cuality
Sat Oct 30, 2004 3:42 pm
#17
forcing at least a copilot into the multiplayer ships is probably one of the better things the devs did. Not only does it add immersion but it actually fits with continuity... and it is fun. Nothing is better than flying a ship and yelling at your gunner to quit shooting off into space and actually hit something.
NasherUK
Sat Oct 30, 2004 3:57 pm
#18
The only thing the MP ships need is for the autopilot not to stop when you leave the pilot seat :/
Herbsman
Sat Oct 30, 2004 4:04 pm
#19
CyberData4 wrote:
It's called a "multi-passenger" ship for a reason.
Exactly, the word is multi-passanger. I'm not sure you cought that but that's "passanger". If it were called a multi-pilot ship I could understand you wanting it forced to group but the simple fact is that most freighters in the starwars universe have a crew of 1-2 and passangers (once again that word was PASSANGER) of around 8.
So a lone pilot could operate all of the ships functions but it would work alot better and run more smoothly with two.
And seriously, if you were theowner of a freighter wouldn't you customize it so that you could push a button and all the ships turrets would face forward and allow you to shoot from the helm? I sure as heck would. If you're smart enough to conjur up a device that's capable of interstellar travel I'm sure you could devise controls to allow you to shoot from the cockpit.
Also, grouping is great and alot of fun but as soon as you're forcing people to group you're not promoting a positive gaming environment.
I vote you let the captain fire his own damned turrets if he wants to.
Herbsman
Sat Oct 30, 2004 4:07 pm
#20
Oh and one more thing. Why does everyone only mention the falcon when they speak of multi-passanger ships. Slave-1 was a multi-passanger ship in the movies, might not be in the game I'm not sure. If I'm not mistaken Jango kicked some serious but with the lasers whilst piloting his ship. Seems to me that should be proof enough that this should be doable.
Attiryyhn
Sat Oct 30, 2004 4:39 pm
#21
Make a couple offriends and get them to gun for you.
Hell, they don't even need to be friends. I'm sure tons of people would jump at the chance to be a gunner on a YT. Presumably, gunners in that situation will get starship combat experience as well, so it's mutually beneficial.
I've noticed a trend in this thread. I'm sure some kiddie will "one-star" me. I just want to let the immature little brat know that I don't give a sh*t.
Message Edited by Attiryyhn on 10-30-2004 04:40 PM
Cuality
Sat Oct 30, 2004 4:44 pm
#22
Slave 1 was closer to a y-wing longprobe. it's a patrol craft... not a freighter like the yt-1300.
the ONLY thing that should be fixed is that the autopilot should work if the pilot leaves the seat.
LaryLizard
Sat Oct 30, 2004 4:50 pm
#23
If you are going to base continuity on this, then let me give you a few examples
Han Solo ALWAYS had Chewbacca with him, consider that a teamate #1
Han also said that "he OUTRUNS imperial vessels" not once did he ever say he engaged [not even tie fighters] on his smuggling runs
The lone tie (someone else said this above)... han never tried to fire at it, he jammed his comm link
And after the escape from the death star in ANH, they had luke, leia, chewy and han himself to fire the cannons. Once again, showing that it required a group effort to engage fighters
As far as I've seen, the devs have been really good with continuity here with the YT-1300 so I'm going to have to /disagree
The YT-1300 is not a fighter or cruiser vessel, it is a freighter, meaning it is meant for transporting goods and has some limited combat capability. Fathom that please.
Sorry.
Message Edited by LaryLizard on 10-30-2004 07:51 PM
Herbsman
Sat Oct 30, 2004 4:51 pm
#24
Cuality wrote:
Slave 1 was closer to a y-wing longprobe. it's a patrol craft... not a freighter like the yt-1300.
the ONLY thing that should be fixed is that the autopilot should work if the pilot leaves the seat.
Actually the firespray is a freighter sized craft that comes complete with a cargo hold, two passanger seats, pilot seat and copilot seat. Boba's slave-1 even has five prison cells. Show me a longprobe that has that and I'll aggree with ya but untill you do I vote that multipassanger ships allow the pilot to fire some guns.
Butterbean569
Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:31 pm
#25
I think it should be kept the way it is now (except the autopilot when you leave the ship bit).
Like someone said, if you're friends are not online or are busy with something else, just /yell in the starport for people that want to gun for you! Anyone can gun, right? If I heard someone asking for a gunner for a YT, I would *definatly* hop on
ZeeEmperials
Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:42 pm
#26
How about just giving master privateer more than one ship? Firespray not really being a ship everyone will ever get.