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Thread: Cargo holds, loadlifter droids and containers OFFICIAL PROPOSAL
Excellent work -- five stars!
In fact, the best recommendation I can give the ideas here is to try to tack them on to the ideas I've offered for adding Space Commerce features in general. 
Seriously -- I'd like to see these changes put into place basically as described. However, I think more is needed. There's little value in being able to carry stuff around the galaxy if there's no reward for doing so!
To that end, I've come up with a few ideas for thingswe coulddo with all that cargo space:
Space Expansion: The Commercial Game
Implementing Space Commerce: A Design Proposal
If after reading these detailed concept messages you don't find something useful to do with a real cargo ship, you're not trying hard enough. 
(Fair warning: Some of these messages are very detailed, as in spanning-more-than-one-message detailed. I like to think of it as because they're chock-full of good ideas, rather than because I write too much... Heh.)
Constructive comments are always welcome. Enjoy! (And keep pushing for functional cargo ships. JtL needs this. Seriously.)
--Flatfingers
Message Edited by Flatfingers on 11-24-2004 06:21 PM
Notch13 wrote:
Wow I haven't seen this before and we know how the devs respond to suggestions from the player base, unless they involve making jedi more common and easier or nerfing people's fun. Stop bumping this, if it garnered real attention you wouldn't need to bump it fifty times yourself. Why not do one on locking the guns forward they seem popular.
This idea was put together from a thread in betaafter several weeks of intense beta player support and response. It didn't get responded to by the devs there, but it was in the last month of testing that it really gained momentum. When beta testing ended, so did the beta threads, thus the huge thread that lead to the proposal was gone. I will bump it from time to time because nothing gets look at deep and the many beta testers that contributed to these ideas thought it merited some attention. Hopefully it will get looked at again.
TroyBPerk wrote:
Notch13 wrote:
Wow I haven't seen this before and we know how the devs respond to suggestions from the player base, unless they involve making jedi more common and easier or nerfing people's fun. Stop bumping this, if it garnered real attention you wouldn't need to bump it fifty times yourself. Why not do one on locking the guns forward they seem popular.
This idea was put together from a thread in beta after several weeks of intense beta player support and response. It didn't get responded to by the devs there, but it was in the last month of testing that it really gained momentum. When beta testing ended, so did the beta threads, thus the huge thread that lead to the proposal was gone. I will bump it from time to time because nothing gets look at deep and the many beta testers that contributed to these ideas thought it merited some attention. Hopefully it will get looked at again.
Hmm huge support.. yet you need to bump it repeatedly to get it noticed? Must be something wrong with the way I define huge and support. Why not start a petition or like I suggested move on to one of the other popular dead horse topics like making MP ships soloable? I think some of the ideas are well thought out but many are just too grand a scale change to the basic mechanics of the game. Again please point out to me one of these many long winded suggestions that have ever seen any dev attention? If it was something about "griefing" or jedi and involved nerfing something cool and fun it might have a chance.
Flatfingers wrote:
Excellent work -- five stars!
In fact, the best recommendation I can give the ideas here is to try to tack them on to the ideas I've offered for adding Space Commerce features in general.
Seriously -- I'd like to see these changes put into place basically as described. However, I think more is needed. There's little value in being able to carry stuff around the galaxy if there's no reward for doing so!
To that end, I've come up with a few ideas for thingswe coulddo with all that cargo space:
Space Expansion: The Commercial Game
Implementing Space Commerce: A Design Proposal
Why JtL Needs Freighters
Asteroid Mining
If after reading these detailed concept messages you don't find something useful to do with a real cargo ship, you're not trying hard enough.
Constructive comments are always welcome. Enjoy! (And keep pushing for functional cargo ships. JtL needs this. Seriously.)
Amen! The piracy idea didn't get mentioned in our original discussion, great idea.
The problem being that there is only one JTL forum so these things get burried by complaints fast. We seriously need a wish list/concept forum for posting ideas like the BETA boards have.
Contrary to what some say, the mechanics for these features ALREADY EXIST in the game.
Message Edited by TroyBPerk on 11-26-2004 01:40 PM