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Massively Multiplayer starships would be really cool, although I can hardly think of what you could do with them in the current game.

They would definitely need to be manned by at least 10 people. If a single person could fly this thing (even with reduced effectiveness) then everyone would be flying around in space with gigantic ships and only newbies would be flying the fighters. If you had to get together at least 10 people, I think it would work about right. Getting together 10 descently trained people isn't easy, and would require a degree of organization that would limit the number of big ships.

Furthermore, use of these ships would definitely have to be restricted to an elite profession. This would give everyone a great reason to continue playing in space even after mastering their pilot profession.

I think the crafting of these ships would have to be a very gruesome task as well, requiring a LARGE amount of resources, easily 20 times the amount needed for current multiplayer ships. This would make these things radically expensive, and ensure that the people who have them have a good number of people (like their PA) supporting them. Or, instead of having it costa ridiculous amount of resources, it could cost 60k faction points for the schematic, and then a more managable amount of resources.

As I said at the beginning, though, what would you do with these ships? Takingthem up against the NPC Star Destroyer would get old after a while, and they would by nature dominate any small pvp battles vs anything less then a dozen or so ace fighters.

I think overall, it'd be a huge project for the devs to design and impliment this system when there would be so little to do with the ships.

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