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Thread: New Vehicles
Zwaggah
Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:33 pm
#14
I like the cloud idea. Except for the landing would be weird because you would have to go straight down. If you went diagonal you would have atmospheric flight. (which I hope is implemented sometime in the future)
EDIT: Besides atmospheric flight, this ties in with JTL because of the multi-passenger vehicles
Message Edited by Zwaggah on 08-20-2004 11:35 PM
aaaaaaarrrgh
Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:46 pm
#15
Herbsman wrote:
They'd still bump into rocks and stuff though.
I don't know if that's entirely true. Back before they changed the drop rate of speeders, if you launched off a big enough cliff, you could clear rocks. Even recently, I managed to fly inside a walled compound that was up against a really steep cliff (which was kind of scary, since the compound was fullof red-con aggros...).
There's definitely an "invisible wall" above objects, but it's definitely possible to get on top of/over them. Somewhere on one of my accounts (which I may have deleted) I had a waypoint on Tatooine to a large rock you could climb on top of due to the shape of nearby terrain.
-Keys-
Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:52 pm
#16
too tell the truth ive jumped a Small Tatooine house before..and a whole rebel compound on Yavin IV 
so its possible to jump things..but often times its hard to do..alot of the time when i try it purposly i stop in mid air and slide down like some messed up cartoon 
so its possible to jump things..but often times its hard to do..alot of the time when i try it purposly i stop in mid air and slide down like some messed up cartoon
Zwaggah
Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:56 pm
#17
I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to cap the "invisible tower" over objects to just a few meters. And they should make it so you can jump your speeder. Once a dev said that he would go riding the sand dunes just for fun. Right now I think driving is a quicker version of walking, boring and lame.
Message Edited by Zwaggah on 08-20-2004 11:57 PM
-Keys-
Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:59 pm
#18
Zwaggah wrote:I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to cap the "invisible tower" over objects to just a few meters. And they should make it so you can jump your speeder. Once a dev said that he would go riding the sand dunes just for fun. Right now I think driving is a quicker version of walking, boring and lame.Message Edited by Zwaggah on 08-20-2004 11:57 PM
agreed
Herbsman
Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:34 pm
#19
Hmmm, interesting.
You could also add weapons to these "cloud Cars" seeing as it wouldn't effect the ground games much. It would be hard for a player to shoot at something if it's a hundred meters below him.
Really I just see it as an encredibly fast transportation method. Currently swoops travel at a speed of 17, you could make these travel at speeds of 50 seeing as they don't need to load anything until they start to deccelerate and descent. It would just be sooooo cool to see them dropping from the sky around cities and such, would really add a great deal of immersion. For me at least.
darthsabertooth
Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:38 pm
#20
LOL i hope to god ther will be a ground combat vehicle expansion...jtl is gonna kill the ground game...oh and they need a "post-jtl" forum lol
Duate
Sat Aug 21, 2004 4:29 am
#22
comiskeyechew wrote:
firts off at this moment there has been no info on new bikes but also please dont post things like this on these boards....this is for jtl info
OH NO! Somebody call a mod!
BelGeode
Sat Aug 21, 2004 7:38 am
#23
I'd be happy if they just made ATSTs combat vehicles instead of pets... when was the last time you had one do "trick one"?
theyoungballa
Sat Aug 21, 2004 7:41 am
#24
comiskeyechew wrote:firts off at this moment there has been no info on new bikes but also please dont post things like this on these boards....this is for jtl info
lol who do u think u are? this does kinda have a deal for jtl info i mean.. we dont know if they will put new vehichles in.... so y cant we just ask..
Izumi_Shimada
Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:02 pm
#25
I'd love to be able to have vehicles that are useful, and to attack off them..
Masim
Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:37 pm
#26
I am sorry if this is in the wrong thread, but I couldn't quite find a suggestion thread. If it is in the wrong place, then if you are a dev please relocate it to a more proper thread. Anyway, are there any plans on vehicles, or for new vehicles? I was wondering this becasue I'm pretty sure most people are getting tired of the same 3 or 4 vehicles that we currrently have and I'm also sure that everyone has at some time or another wanted a 2, 3 or even 4 passenger vehicle.
There are many vehicles that could possibly be put into this game. For example, remeber in one of the Star Wars movies, I believe A New Hope, how someone on Tatooine was talking about how prices were dropping on certain speeders becasue of an X-35 or X-39 variant? I'm not entirely sure if this were true or not and it may have been in another movie, but another example would be the speeders seen in The Phantom Menace and the new digitally remastered versions of the Star Wars movies. Specifically the ones on Tatooine. Another idea, if anyone remebers it, there wasa book which displayed the inner-workings of certain vehicles, such as the AAT and the Naboo N1 Starfighter from The Phantom Menace. It also shows several other vehicles including three speeders native to Naboo, including the Flash Speeder.
Another idea that comes to mind would be the possibility of roadways or parking garagesin the cities. Besides, when I (and probably many others) first went to Corellia and Naboo, I was expecting bustling streets full of speeders and transports and a much more dense population of pedestrians walking along on sidewalks.
In the end, I know that vehicles are only a slight and minor amount of the content in this game, but they affect so many people that it is almost impossible to ignore them. Perhaps this thread will shed light on the matter. I also have several opinions and possibilitieson the improvement of cities both player and npc, if these ideas above interest anyone, I will be glad to post them.