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DavidHarper
Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:52 am
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Do you think we will ever get instanced Star Ports?
I can imagine a 2 story Star Port. The first on ground level (as the star ports are now) on this level there would be 8 small hangers, these hangers would be were small fighters land. These small hangers would be located on the rim of star ports, each hanger would be instanced and there would be a coridor leading too each hanger (hangers 1-8). When a player lands he is issued a hanger ticket and when he leaves the hanger he emerges from the instanced hanger into the coridor next to the hanger he left from.
That ticket will enable him to enter that hanger when he returns to his ship, so say he had a ticket for hanger number 6 he would have to walk around the coridor untill he gets to hanger 6 and then the ticket would enable him to enter that hanger. He would not be able to enter any other hanger.
Now many players would end up with a ticker for hanger number 6 however obvioulsy this would not transport them to the same ship rather it would transport them to an instanced hanger where there ship is. So whilst you would see lots of people going into hanger 6 when you traveled there only you and anyone grouped with you woul appear there.
The seond lower level would have 4 large hangers where the large MP craft land. These would work in exactly the same way as the smaller hangers. However 1 of the lerger hanger would not lead to an instanced hanger but instead would lead to the public shuttle.
Also when a ship takes off or lands players outside of the star port would see this. So if a player was stood outside Coronet and someone flying an X-Wing landed in hanger 6 they would see an X-Wing come down and land in that location.
Finally another idea wold be to allow players to launch whilst in combat with NPC's or PC's. For example say you were a Jedi and you and a Bounty Hunter were in a fight and you ran to you ship the Bounty Hunter would be able to follow you into the hanger. Where you could choose to launch your ship but you would have to wait a 30-60 secs for the ship to launch. At which point the Bounty hunter could choose to run to his ship and follow you into space.
Same would go for NPC's say a Smuggler was trying to travel through a Star Port with spice and he goto his hanger but he had failed his Smuggleing check, then a bunch of Storm Troopers would spawn on him in the hanger and attack him, so he would have to hold them off for a min before his ship launched (Just like Episode IV).
Also 1 final rule would be that a player can not have a weapon out in a Star Port, if he does pull a weapon out he will be attacked/detaind by Star Port security.
Message Edited by DavidHarper on 04-27-2005 01:13 PM
Washell
Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:01 am
#2
I think instanced hangar bays arejust a matter of time.Since it's 90% eyecandy, there are more important things to fix in the game first.
Zeon_Zaku
Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:40 am
#3
I'd really like to see this. Starports with instanced sections where a player can walk around the outside of his or her ship. If it's a POB ship, the ramp should be open and players could walk in and out of it (this would also help with decorating the POB ship).
It would be neat to have a terminal in there so we could modify the ship as well-- put on new components and the like, and we could actually see the results up-close. Maybe a couple little flying mechanic droids would come out and replace the parts or something, just to the parts didn't poof when you removed it, then appear again when you placed on a new part.
You could group with people as well and everyone in the group could go in.
Though I'm not sure about letting everyone see the ship landing. That just seems like too much of a hassel. Many times players land at the same time, so a lot of the time you'd be seeing a mish-mash cluster of TIE Fighters, X-Wings, A-Wings, Hutt Fighters, YT-1300 and Decimator landing at the same time.
Instead, just let the player themself see the ship taking off and landing.
It would be neat to have a terminal in there so we could modify the ship as well-- put on new components and the like, and we could actually see the results up-close. Maybe a couple little flying mechanic droids would come out and replace the parts or something, just to the parts didn't poof when you removed it, then appear again when you placed on a new part.
You could group with people as well and everyone in the group could go in.
Though I'm not sure about letting everyone see the ship landing. That just seems like too much of a hassel. Many times players land at the same time, so a lot of the time you'd be seeing a mish-mash cluster of TIE Fighters, X-Wings, A-Wings, Hutt Fighters, YT-1300 and Decimator landing at the same time.
Instead, just let the player themself see the ship taking off and landing.
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