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Just thought I'd share this idea before ROTW goes live and the forums are flooded with bug reports and rants. For the next expansion they should institute space piracy ranking system. I've always loved how you can dock with disabled freighters and steal their cargo but you never get anything. They can make it so ships carrying alcohol will have stealable brandy and transports carrying electronics would give you ship components etc. etc. Whenever you steal freight you gain points of infamy, raising your rank from upright citizen, to miscreant, to scally wag, to cut throat and so on. What will keep everyone from going crazy with piracy is that after a certain point the freighters can call in for help from local security forces. The more infamous you are, the more ships arrive, until you have to group to survive. The greater the infamy, the greater the reward. To counter your infamy it may be possible to install jamming equipment so reinforcements can't be called. If wanted a pvp focus, instead of calling for npc security there could be a systemwide call for players alligned with the freighter, and successful defense of the freighter could mean cash for players.

Anyway, justthought I'd share with the class.

Xitar Peng
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Xitar Peng
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Xitarus DeathWithinTenPaces
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Very cool idea, I like it

damnit, now you jinxed it and SOE will never put it in.

the foundation of civilization is greed.

All I can say is "AAARGH MATEYS! Thar be good loot in bowels of that thar freighter. Lets gooo git her! Just watch out for those scally wag s'curty fo'ces cuz they ca' be o sneaky bunch."

Mah randum musings

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Just thought I'd share this idea before ROTW goes live and the forums are flooded with even more bug reports and rants.

They should institute space piracy ranking system. I've always loved how you can dock with disabled freighters and steal their cargo but you never get anything. They can make it so ships carrying alcohol will have stealable brandy and transports carrying electronics would give you ship components etc. etc. Whenever you steal freight you gain points of infamy, raising your rank from upright citizen, to miscreant, to scally wag, to cut throat and so on. What will keep everyone from going crazy with piracy is that after a certain point the freighters can call in for help from local security forces. The more infamous you are, the more ships arrive, until you have to group to survive. The greater the infamy, the greater the reward. To counter your infamy it may be possible to install jamming equipment so reinforcements can't be called. If wanted a pvp focus, instead of calling for npc security there could be a systemwide call for players alligned with the freighter, and successful defense of the freighter could mean cash for players.

It occurs to me that it wouldn't be that hard to implement. The docking and looting animations are already there, npc can already hyper to intercept you like in missions, and it doesn't seem like it would be that hard to make another ranking system. They threw one in at the ace pilot level just for grins. The only problem I see is the amount of data required to get fighters to swarm on pirates because instead of set waypoints like in missions, the coordinates will be completely random. Still I really don't know much about programming.

It also occurs to me that this could be a way to incorporate space smuggling as well. Land at Jabba's Palace, get a smuggling mission, then travel without using in sector hyperspace to a contact in another system, all without being boarded and searched by the authorities. Successful smuggling gives you infamy points, which means that you are more likely to encounter patrols. To counter infamy, secret compartments and jamming equipment can be added. On the other side you could patrol a sector, looking for npc's and players that could be smugglers.

You could get to the point where you don't want you're infamy as high, so you can go to chasis dealer who can change your transponder codes and find a slicer to delete any reports of your deeds. It would get annoying if you were super infamous because players would keep searching you for contraband and if you accidently took a pot shot at a freighter the entire imperial fleet might come swooping down on top of you.

Some people on the pilot forums suggested a jedi style visibility/infamy system that could work well. The more crime you commit the higher your visibility, which puts you higher up the bounty list at the local RSF/IMP/REB station which makes you a targetfor high paying space bounty missions. I can definetely see this working with the Neutral Smugglers since they work for Jabba To get your visibility back down you'll have to not commit any crime for a while and let your visibility/infamy go down. The only problem I see with this is that it would make people stop going to space, similar to a jedi hiding in a house, but there could be an alternative method like slicing records that could decrease your infamy drastically, but for a price. That way if you're poor you can just wait it out, and if you're rich but can't be bothered waiting aroundyou can buy your way out of trouble.

Anyway, just thought I'd share with the class.

Xitar Peng
Master Shipwright
Master Architect

Xitarus DeathWithinTenPaces
TKM
Ranger
Medic

ust thought I'd share this idea before ROTW goes live and the forums are flooded with even more bug reports and rants.

They should institute space piracy ranking system. I've always loved how you can dock with disabled freighters and steal their cargo but you never get anything. They can make it so ships carrying alcohol will have stealable brandy and transports carrying electronics would give you ship components etc. etc. Whenever you steal freight you gain points of infamy, raising your rank from upright citizen, to miscreant, to scally wag, to cut throat and so on. What will keep everyone from going crazy with piracy is that after a certain point the freighters can call in for help from local security forces. The more infamous you are, the more ships arrive, until you have to group to survive. The greater the infamy, the greater the reward. To counter your infamy it may be possible to install jamming equipment so reinforcements can't be called. If wanted a pvp focus, instead of calling for npc security there could be a systemwide call for players alligned with the freighter, and successful defense of the freighter could mean cash for players.

It occurs to me that it wouldn't be that hard to implement. The docking and looting animations are already there, npc can already hyper to intercept you like in missions, and it doesn't seem like it would be that hard to make another ranking system. They threw one in at the ace pilot level just for grins. The only problem I see is the amount of data required to get fighters to swarm on pirates because instead of set waypoints like in missions, the coordinates will be completely random. Still I really don't know much about programming.

It also occurs to me that this could be a way to incorporate space smuggling as well. Land at Jabba's Palace, get a smuggling mission, then travel without using in sector hyperspace to a contact in another system, all without being boarded and searched by the authorities. Successful smuggling gives you infamy points, which means that you are more likely to encounter patrols. To counter infamy, secret compartments and jamming equipment can be added. On the other side you could patrol a sector, looking for npc's and players that could be smugglers.

You could get to the point where you don't want you're infamy as high, so you can go to chasis dealer who can change your transponder codes and find a slicer to delete any reports of your deeds. It would get annoying if you were super infamous because players would keep searching you for contraband and if you accidently took a pot shot at a freighter the entire imperial fleet might come swooping down on top of you.

Some people on the pilot forums suggested a jedi style visibility/infamy system that could work well. The more crime you commit the higher your visibility, which puts you higher up the bounty list at the local RSF/IMP/REB station which makes you a targetfor high paying space bounty missions. I can definetely see this working with the Neutral Smugglers since they work for Jabba To get your visibility back down you'll have to not commit any crime for a while and let your visibility/infamy go down. The only problem I see with this is that it would make people stop going to space, similar to a jedi hiding in a house, but there could be an alternative method like slicing records that could decrease your infamy drastically, but for a price. That way if you're poor you can just wait it out, and if you're rich but can't be bothered waiting aroundyou can buy your way out of trouble.

I'm posting this in the SW forum because something like this could mean more craftable components. I'm not exactly sure, but it appears a cargo hold is an installed item, so why not have a secret cargo hold that can be installed i.e. false floor in the Millenium Falcon. There could also be a market for jamming devices to block the freighters from calling for help, and even grappling hooks or laser cutting tools that could help in making the docking and stealing go quicker, so you can escape from security forces with the loot.

Anyway, just thought I'd share with the class.

Xitar Peng
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Xitarus DeathWithinTenPaces
TKM
Ranger
Medic

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SOE: "Wanna buy ToOW?
Obi-Wan: "You don't want to sell me ToOW."
SOE: "I don't wanna sell ya ToOW."
Obi-Wan: "You want to go home and re-think your game."
SOE: "I want to go home and re-think my game."

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Any idea that involves any type of IG space piracy, I'm in favor of.

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