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MusicManZarick
Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:17 pm
#14
Sigmund wrote:Say, there's certainly good justification for us Privateers to be able to fly Z-95, Y & X-Wing: plenty of the 'neutral' security forces (CorSec, RSF) fly them, and plenty of pirates too! (Nym's, Corsairs, Deathmarked Mercs).Of course, the issue is that the Rebel pilots don't want to lose their class specialty. Which I totally respect- I am a Rebel spy, after all. ^_~So how about this: Let Privateers get the certs for those ships, but at higher tiers than the Rebs do! Make them tier 2, 3, and 4 ships. Sure, we might not want a Z-95 at tier 2, but it gives us the option to. A Y-wing at tier 3 wouldn't really be that bad, thinking about it.. and granted tier 4 is a bit late for an X-wing, but hey, we could get it, at least..Of course, at Master level this makes us a lot like Rebs (minus the A-wing and B-wing, since those were Alliance special-ordered, right?), but I can see some gripes about it at that point...I dunno, this might work. Whadda you think?
What burns me up is the IMPERIALS I was killing last night in Endor that were in Z-95's and X-Wings. Some sort of Scientist Bodyguards or something, I'll have to go to the spot again and see. But they had the Imp symbol behind their picks when I targetted them, and they kept spawning that way repeatedly so I don't think it was bugged.
Ocoro
Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:36 pm
#15
Great, great, great ideas
/sign, /agree, whatever
Sorry, I accidently clicked on the 3 rating when scrolling down, so you can thank me personally for that, sorry!!!
Ocoro
Corran950
Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:07 am
#16
Oh i like that idea if you dont mind i would like to expand this idea further. Have the player take a couple quest missions mission for whatever faction he/she whants a ship from. On completing the missions the player can buy certificationby spend xp or prestige points equal to the next highest box needed, for instance if a privateer wanted a Y-wing longprobe they would do the missions and aquire xp equal to tier 3 box since a longprobe is a teir 2 ship. Ships must be lower teir than what pilot can currently pilot except for master, that would costx2-x4 prestige.
DraconianOne wrote:
There are a lot of different designs of ships in the SW universe but at the moment, SWG doesn't reflect this. Non-Imp NPCs can fly any non-imp ship be they rebels, pirates, RSF or Corsec and it would have been great if players could too. Missions to get certifications in ships would be good as well.
- Rebel Pilot 4/4/4/3
Rogue135
Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:07 am
#17
Sigmund wrote:
Say, there'scertainly good justification for us Privateers to be able to fly Z-95, Y & X-Wing: plenty of the 'neutral' security forces (CorSec, RSF) fly them, and plenty of pirates too! (Nym's, Corsairs, Deathmarked Mercs).
Of course, the issue is that the Rebel pilots don't want to lose their class specialty. Which I totally respect- I am a Rebel spy, after all. ^_~
So how about this: Let Privateers get the certs for those ships, but at higher tiers than the Rebs do! Make them tier 2, 3, and 4 ships. Sure, we might not want a Z-95 at tier 2, but it gives us the option to. A Y-wing at tier 3 wouldn't really be that bad, thinking about it.. and granted tier 4 is a bit late for an X-wing, but hey, we could get it, at least..
Of course, at Master level this makes us a lot like Rebs (minus the A-wing and B-wing, since those were Alliance special-ordered, right?), but I can see some gripes about it at that point...
I dunno, this might work. Whadda you think?
Z-95 should always have been either Privateer starter or Privateer and Rebel... not just Rebel.
Y-wing should be availible to both, it is an old, but common fighter. Possibly both versions availible to Privateer at Tier 3.
I've put inplenty of requests for "recognizable craft" for Privateer, I'm not asking for the X-wing for Privateer simply because I think that might be too much. However, the Cloakshape Fighter and Pursuer-class Patrol craft would be nice additions in my opinion.
Of course, the most requested vessels for Privateer appear to be the YT-2400 and YT-2000, both at Master Pilot of course... but I doubt we'd see them both. If I had to have one or the other, it's the YT-2400 without a doubt.
I'd rather fly a Z-95 or Y-wingthan ANY of the Black Sun or Hutt fighters... the first person to say "be a rebel" gets hit with anStar WarsEUbook, then they can read it.
truewildman
Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:41 am
#18
How about this:
We can get whatever we want, whenever we want, wherever we want, however we want, from whomever we want.
Then, and only then, will we all be happy. 
KenzoDarkron
Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:53 am
#19
truewildman wrote:
How about this:
We can get whatever we want, whenever we want, wherever we want, however we want, from whomever we want.
Then, and only then, will we all be happy.
amen to that
W-Axl
Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:00 pm
#21
I don't want anyone from another faction to be able to fly the ships currently aligned with another faction (including neutral). I do agree however, there should be a larger variety of "neutral" ships added to the game pilotable by all factions. This leaves the "balance" of the ships and factions already there and the new "neutral" ships would just be graphic skin varients of ships already out there, no going up or down in stats from the ones already in tiers 1-4 + master. In otherwords, take the average stats from a TIE, Z-95, and Scyk chassis and just create a new skin for a "neutral" ship pilotable by all factions. Could do the same thing with MP ships. These ships would be average across the board so the only real incentive to own one would be for variety. I know I'd like to fly a ship with some uniqueness in appearance even if it was only average compared to factional ships of the same tier.
GadonThek
Sun Dec 12, 2004 8:19 pm
#22
We really need a combination of ideas to reach the ideal:
Neutrals should be able to do a quest to get Y-Wing and Z-95 certs(A, B and X-wings should remain Rebel only ships).
There should be several "true neutral" chassis available to all factions, at various tiers.
There should be a handful of ships unique to each Privateer faction, or at least unique to RSF and CorSec, ie, System Patrol Ships(along the lines of the KSE Firespray) and unique to Hutt/Freelancer(Cloakshape would be ideal for a tier 4 fighter, similar to the Dunelizard in stats).
Imperials should be granted the Lambda Shuttle at master.
Rebels should gain an additional Master Multiplayer ship, possibly dev-designed, possibly an EU ship.
Neutrals should be able to do a quest to get Y-Wing and Z-95 certs(A, B and X-wings should remain Rebel only ships).
There should be several "true neutral" chassis available to all factions, at various tiers.
There should be a handful of ships unique to each Privateer faction, or at least unique to RSF and CorSec, ie, System Patrol Ships(along the lines of the KSE Firespray) and unique to Hutt/Freelancer(Cloakshape would be ideal for a tier 4 fighter, similar to the Dunelizard in stats).
Imperials should be granted the Lambda Shuttle at master.
Rebels should gain an additional Master Multiplayer ship, possibly dev-designed, possibly an EU ship.
BillyBobthe50th
Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:21 am
#23
Id like a series of Fighters for each squadron, and then some:
Hutt fighters for Smugglers aliance
Z95, Y-wing, and some corelian fighters (devs can make some up) for corsec
N1, N1a, N2 for RSF
and each one could get their own specific MP ship too!
SA: Combat version of SS3K
Corsec: YT-2300
RSF: RSF gunship (royal ship in EP1, but no chrome (chrome for royalty ships only) and turrets on top/bottom)
In additon to whatever else the devs would wish to put in, the pilots arent restricted to these depending on squadron, but it helps that RPing aspect soo much.
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