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I like the idea of large groups having capital ships but I would doubt we'll get it right off the bat.

The devs themselves said they want to have player owned capitol ships.. down the road.

Personally I'd love to see capitol ships be floating guild halls. With like the poster said, a bridge, tactical room, bedrooms, lounge, 5-10 gun turrets and of course a docking bay. I doubt you'll litterally be able to fly into and out of them, probably be something like the current shuttle system. You select to launch or land on a rotary menu, get a short loading screen and poof your in the docking bay, or in your ship just outside your capitol ship.

I mean, why WOULDN"T the devs want to do that. I can just see Imperial vs Rebel guild wars this way. I mean, within limits. No letting the imperials own Imperial class Star Destoyers or Executioner class Star Destoyers (also known as Super Star Destoyers.) Or on the rebel side MC-80 Calamari Cruiser. But I see the following capitol ships for each side

Imperial:

Victory Class Star Destoyer

Interdictor Class Star Destoyer

Carrack Cruisers

Rebel:

MC40a Calamari Cruiser

Nebulon B Escort Frigate

Corellian Corvette (This is the ship we all use at starports, but it's a scaled down version. The regular is 150 meters long.)

There are a bunch more capitol ships and cruisers in the star wars universe, but these are the most popular type without being to huge (the huge ones, 1 mile long or more, should be NPC controlled ships used by the highest lvl NPCs in each faction.)

An awesome list of Star Wars ships can be found here

http://galactic-voyage.com/Ships.htm

Oh and I want to be able to place a Space Station like the equivelant to a player base now. You have to take out the turrets and board it to blow it up. Once you get inside its just like a normal base.

Might be interesting if they do eventually institute Guild Capital ships, if say you have a particular mission, if you have enough faction points, you can buy or "rent" one of the larger ships, like an Imperial or Super class Star Destroyer, or for the rebels one of the bigger Mon Cals.

Leading on from the idea of getting and walking around carrier craft and space stations and stuff do you think there will be missions to blow up a base or take a ship where you actually have to dock and fight via normal combat. (Like the corvette but transport up there by your own means.)

which class capital ships you can get should depend on guild size! 30-50 = corellian corvette/escort carrier 5-80 = Frigate 80-120+ = cruiser

that way there wont be 100's of capital ships out there there will just be a few.

AND

this might make guilds work together and make a "fleet" like mention in the post. this would be great interaction and good roleplaying for players giving them the best possible star wars feeling

We need to throw in interdictor cruisers. Get two Imp guilds to work together, one use the interdictor to pull people out of hyperspace, and have another cruiser to pummel them.

I'm not sure about the idea of guild owned capitol ships, especially when access to them is dependant on someone else's playing time ... of course if it was dependant on my playing time, then i'm ok with it! Now if the guild owns the ship and it's just always available for the guild to use then that's cool but how would that work?

Make the ship static and unmoveable, so everyone knows where it is and has access to it? Kinda sounds like a space station ...

From what i've seen capital ships will most likely be player ships added post se and have the walk around features that the YT1300 is supposed to have.

I have to rain on the customization parade, at least on the Imp. side. They are after all a vast organization of standardized corridors and lack of imagination. Prepare yourself for cap ships of all white and black contrasts! Rebels on the other hand, since their fleets are rag tag and cobbled together, they should be able to customize to their hearts content. Though I should also temper this with the fact that so far the Devs have been quiet at best on this point. They are saying cap ships will be in the GAME when JTL goes live, but it looks like these will just be mission objectives like 'take down the picket ships and fall back.'