Pilot Archive

• Create a new MP ships class, much like the Yacht in function, but with weapons. I.e. A Passenger ship, a ship you can set up like a house andwalk around inside(like other MP ships), but it doesn't NEED a crew.

OR

• Give current MP ships some useful fire control for the pilot from the cockpit (like forward locked guns in the absense of gunners, or an AI gunner for each turret, bymeans of a "gunning computer" or something).

Message Edited by DaveG on 01-23-2005 10:34 AM

Its not possible to inactivate/activate your mission.
Hence if you pick up the mission you'll have to avoid the system in question until when you want to do the mission.

Also prevent a group of players from all getting the same mission, helping each other out, then all going back to train and pick up new missions.

Currently you cant really advance syncronously with groupmembers, you'll always need to wait for the next person in group to go to ground, pick up mission, come back, find each other...

An active/inactive toggle on spacemissions would be a very welcome addition.

I am an Imperial squadron leader in my guild, soon to become a wing commander, and I've been arranging pvp events with a rebel guild. We devised a set of rules, but it's such a hassle to make sure no one cheats. The main rule is that everyone is limited to level 3 weapons. I did some math and this comes out to around 60% damage reduction versus my normal tier 9 and 10 weapons. We choose to do this because we don't want one-shot kills. We want fair fights and fun for all. It helps us wait for new content and the CU. I'm not saying lower PVP damage by 60%, but I strongly recommend a 50% damage reduction in pvp. It's much more enjoyable to actually dogfight than it is to make it a game of 'who sees who first.' Right now, if I used my true loadout, I could probably kill most people in maybe two or three shots. With our level three weapons (granted, the rebels get to use three since their x-wings can hold that many), an actual dogfight can occur. Other self-imposed rules are no warheads...largely because of the lag exploit and somewhat because it's a cheap kill.

What I would like to see are actual missions. Let us join the Imperial Navy and actually do our job. Have merchant traffic pass through the domestic sectors. If we happen to scan a cargo ship and discover narcotics, we receive orders to disable it while the local Imperial station sends out a troop transport to board the ship and fine the owner/confiscate their cargo (just like TIE Fighter). Perhaps we would receive some FP for stopping the smuggler. This could even be integrated into a player versus player type event. Allow *real* smugglers to transport various cargo (both legal and contraband). If we catch them carrying contraband, they become attackable..like a TEF of sorts. If we destroy the ship instead of disabling them, we might lose FP and get fined. This should discourage griefing. It would be nice to see, rather than static pirates, a pirate armada hyper into Naboo space and terrorize the merchant fleets. We would receive orders to protect the merchants. Perhaps a storyline could even develop where 'Imperial Intelligence has discovered a pirate staging area. You are ordered to report to (insert waypoint) and eliminate the threat.' Except that *all* Imperials in space would receive the message. We would fly to the location to find a well-defended space station. What we need is more content along the lines of TIE Fighter and XWA. I'd kill for a chance to get a job working on this stuff.

freelance Ace jacket and Ace helmet.. /shudder

Just keepin this thread rolling..

A lot of good ideas brough up so far..

For me. JTL is an excellent start.. but feels unfinished. Oh, i'm not having a go at the devs by any means, I think they've done a fantastic job with the JTL ships and the core systems. The system for GETTING master pilot is excellent, love the mission thing, and there are some things to do once you get your new jacket, but space in general could be a lot more interesting than it currently is.

I think missions is probably the way to go.. Have those freighters that we see floating around, give us Missions. How about some death star remains to fly around ?.. Bespin could be added, complete with Lando.

What about this "Kessel Run" that Han is so keen to tell us he's good at.. Maybe it could be a space race, complete with a dense asteroid field to navigate..

Perhaps we could have asteroids big enough to fly around, complete with space worms to kill.

The possibilites really are endless.. (a bit like space really .. )


Oh, it'll happen. I've played MMORPG's for years, and devs know that to keep the player base active, they need to keep adding stuff, which is what part of our subs goes to. It just takes time..

If you get bored.. then invest in the Station-pass thingy.. and go run around Planetside for a few weeks, or indulge in a little EQ2ing..

Hmm... now that i've given SOE some free advertising... I'm gonna go to bed and dream of a world that will give me free money for playing games...

I know it's not a game-breaker, but I'd really like to see the 7.5 million XP fulfill the Master box requirements. There are some servers (Corbantis, I'm looking at you) where space grouping is virtually impossible -- there's no one in the skies, and no one willing to go up. (Hey, if I'm wrong, please tell me!!) There's certainly a precedent in the game for uber-grinding leading to mastery, so I'm not sure why pilot should be any different. Being eternally trapped at 4/4/4/4 while I dream of my second mastery badge is just no fun at all.

I suppose I could figure out how to solo the corvette...but is that what the designers intended? Prolly not.

my top issue is quite simple. pvp damage needs to be lowered. i'd say by at least 50%.