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Mkappus

Mon May 17, 2004 1:27 pm

Want a thread to try and pull together the facts we have. Some of the facts may contradict each other, but over time we should be able to nail down the truth. Try and not comment on what you think of the facts, but just the facts. Also, we need to remember these facts may change.

Ships

1. 15 ships are being released with the expansion

2. When you get the expansion you will be given a free basic ship so you can jump into space right away.

3. The YT-1300 is the only ship that can carry multiple people at this time.

Professsions:

1. There are 4 new professions: Alliance Pilot, Imperial Pilot, Basic Pilot, Shipwright

2. At the moment the Pilot professions do not take basic skill points to learn.

3. At the moment Shipwright does take basic skill points, and requires engineering 4.

Flight:

1. It is twitch based.

2. Collosion - you can't collide with another player ship and cause DMG. I have read different things about colliding with NPC ships and asteroids.

3. There is no atmospheric flight.

4. Ships will land and takeoff from starports. You call them from your datapad and load to space.

5. You can fly yourself from sector to sector, thus planet to planet.

6. If you die in space your ship takes dmg but is not destroyed. You are cloned to the nearest planet, unless you cloned at one of the ships in space.

7. Combat flying incurs battle fatigue.

8. Joysticks and gamepads will be supported.

Faction in Space

Conflicting information here. One article says that space combat must be consensual, suggesting covert status in space. The last article I saw said that if you are in a faction craft you are tef'd while in space, thus open to attack. Currently I am going to assume that anyone in a faction craft is open to attack by members of opposite faction, and only non faction craft will be safe from pvp.

Space:

1. There are 10 space sectors.

2. Eight sectors are around existing planets (Corellia/Talus combined, Naboo/Rori combined).

3. 2 sectors have no planets and are considered deep space.

4. There are nebulae and asteroids. Nebulae are more than just scenery they have effects on ships.... Asteroids, last I read could be destroyed.

5. There is no mineral harvesting in space.

YT-1300

1. It is a multi-person ship. When at a starport, everyone in your group will be loaded to the ship when you call it. Probably a character max, but haven't seen exact amount now.

2. You can walk around in the YT-1300.

3. You can decorate the YT-1300

4. 2 people can man the turrets in the YT-1300 for combat.

Crafting of Ships

1. Shipwrights will craft and modify ships.

Other than that still a ton of speculation. The shipwright tree shows faction craft. Do they require 1 use schematics? Will other professions be needed for sub-components. Like weaponsmith for weapons..... No idea on resources yet.

Other:

1. No new planets in expansion.

2. No player controlled capital ships at expansion.

3. Player cannot doc with space stations or capital ships at this time.

4. You can loot items off of destroyed ships.

5. 2 new species coming, no info on which ones.

I am sure I am forgetting a bit, this is just off the top of my head.

Message Edited by Mkappus on 05-17-2004 02:31 PM

Message Edited by Mkappus on 05-17-2004 02:34 PM

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Jaden_Korr

Mon May 17, 2004 1:30 pm

#2

i think you pretty much covered the good stuff

nice job

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ZalTaur

Mon May 17, 2004 1:31 pm

#3

Sounds accurate compared to what I've read. Thanks for compiling it.

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flux77

Mon May 17, 2004 1:36 pm

#4

one word...

NICE!!!

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MaddogKilla

Mon May 17, 2004 1:40 pm

#5

3 people max in the yt-1300

Jibbrish

Mon May 17, 2004 1:40 pm

#6

Well done!

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blaisedinsd

Mon May 17, 2004 1:51 pm

#7

Species:

There will be 2 new playable species. These have been correctly guessed by some mystery gaming website. Maybe we could come up with a list of guesses that websites have made......

Mkappus

Mon May 17, 2004 2:22 pm

#8

On the YT-1300 I know 3 is the max that can participate in its operation, 1 pilot, 2 gunners. But I have seen nothing that says the number of passengers are limited to 3. I had heard 8 or 10, similar to the corvette limit, but have not seen anything specific.

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BlindTyldak

Mon May 17, 2004 2:42 pm

#9

I'll try to find it, but I read 8 people max on the YT-1300. It was something like IGN or Stratics, but I don't remember where. I'm trying to remember what the quote was, but they said that you could have one person piloting, two gunning, and up to five partying and dancing if I recall right. They also said that someone can sit with the pilot in the cockpit.

Asteroids can be destroyed, and they are REALLY destroyed; they do not generate shrapnel of sorts. Nebulae generate static bursts that can damage your ship. Those are from player observation at E3.

Edit: you also have the option of loading from your ship in one starport directly to another starport, and do not have to actually "fly" if you do not want to.

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Message Edited by BlindTyldak on 05-17-2004 02:43 PM

StarNick

Mon May 17, 2004 2:53 pm

#10

For the YT-1300...yeah between 10-20...as you need to be grouped to board it together

Im sort of hoping it may be more than 10 tho...hehe like get a fleet of these babies...all with 20 man groups...and assault a planet or station or something! hehe

And im sort of dissapointed that you can't dock with ships/stations yet...I do wonder if there are going to be any player type structures in space...like a few spacestations you can roam around in...I *DID* see some concept art of an inside of one of the stations on Lucasarts.com....and Im really hoping you can "dock" via a load screen to several stations...and that they arent just large static structures that fire turbo-laser bolts at ya (like coronet buildings...which fire lag at ya)

Btw...with coronet buildings...developers have hinted that they may make cities more interesting by making several theme parks...or events (not "raid" type) where like a Hutt gang takes over a coronet building, and players must enter and wipe them out....we could very well see this in JTL - as I heard it from a dev from E3...

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BlindTyldak

Mon May 17, 2004 3:00 pm

#11

Okay, my bad . . . apparently the max for a YT-1300 is 20 people, as it is stated in the IGN interview that it is players in your group, hence the max of 20.

It also states there that factional pilots can in fact fly neutral ships, but only if they have the appropriate skills, and they neutral ships will have different performance attributes than the factional ships.

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Landorin

Tue May 18, 2004 1:30 am

#12

Nice work!

I really hoped for ships people could man and fly together!

Now I just hope you can take off and fly into the atmosphere too instead of getting a loading screen to enter space. From what your posting sounds it wont be like that. Still, nice work.

FightClub69

Tue May 18, 2004 3:44 am

#13

Great info, thanks!

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