With the battle raging on in the Galatic Civil War, why not have a Carrier player driven ship??? Just imagine the fire fights with that thing!!!! I haven't seen any posts about this so I just figured I would through my 2cents in.
How it would work:
1. For this to realy work, create more faction ranks and maybe even some diverse ranks. For example have JtL ranks (ie Fleet Commander, Admiral, and ranks like that), and then have some for pilots (Ace, and things like that), and you could have some for those who just like the grunt work (grunt, foot solider, and just group based ranks). The player after declaring which faction he wants to enter will be given the option to "enlist" into the ground or air war, or something to that effect.
2. It would have to expand out of the maxium group limit to include a lot more people, and since SOE is trying to promote more "team" play they should increase the group limit. Anyway, have it work like the vet reward yaht (can't spell) and invite up 2 a set number of people. Once there the "Fleet Commander" will assume command and give out the orders to the fleet (also in this fanticy will be destroyer type ships, which will be commanded the same way but with smaller groups). The Carrier will work kinda like a guild city with the controlling player adding new feature like: expanded hanger decks (to carry more fighters), repair decks, cantina (got to have that
) and so on and so forth.
3. The Carrier would have all the limitation the regular fighters have as far as mass/energy/wieght, stuff like that, and would take damage like the multipassenger ships take now. And a crew would have to have "damage control" teams onboard to repair the ship, like the multipassenger ships have.
4. Once combat has begun the Fleet Commander can issue orders/target/waypoints to his fighters/destroyers the same way a Squad Leader issues messages. The commander would also get the feature of a tactical map, which would be sweet for everyone to see, so that he can direct according (my idea of the map would be like in Ep II when Count Duku was talking with the Geo's.)
Anyways, I have wasted enough of your time reading this but I was off in fantacy land at work and just wanted to share
Comment away and let me know what you think, that is about all we can really do is imagine.
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