Pilot Archive
Thread: You're a dev assigned to pilot profession and... [PETITION]
TheDarkmoons
Tue Apr 26, 2005 3:36 pm
#14
Hmm, I'd...
>Make all Master Pilot titles to just 'Master Imperial/Rebel Pilot or just Master Pilot'
>Add PvP rankings. 5 PvP kills gets you 'Ace' title, like in the X-wing books (iirc). 50 PvP kills gets you 'Legendary Pilot'. You can only get PvP points off any one pilot once, and thats it. The points also start to decay after Ace pilot, so whilst that is 'gettable', Legendary Pilot is something that would really be respected, and the aformentioned points in place would hopefully prevent Space Fightclubs. Getting these titles would just get you the title and maybe some new clothing, but only things 'for looks'.
>Add as many Star Wars/Expanded Universe ships as I could get my mitts on! Grab the essential guide to vehicles/ships, and put the whole lot of em in
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>Add weapons of mass destruction, like Deathstar ripoffs. Big satillites with stupidly large guns designed to attack planets, designed by the Empire, with specific weakpoints that require good piloting skills to destroy. Would provide some 'terrain' for fights. Imperials would get to destroy Rebel medical facilities with likewise weakpoints.
>Add some silly 'easter eggs'. Maybe a 'Red Baron' fokker WWI plane that spawns in an out-of-the-way place, and only if certain parameters are met (Someone destroys X amount of spawns in Y amount of time in the system, and it flys in for a few seconds). Just random jokes to make people grin, but only in really rare occurences. Simpler easter eggs would be doing things like putting '[name of developer] woz ere!] graffiti onto places on stations that are not usually looked at.
>Add a new ship, the Jedi starfighter MXC 91435403, with 700 gun slots. Certified to Jedi, but when they launch it automatically blows up with a system message 'Vader says Hi!'
Ok, so the first few suggestions were actually semi-serious
>Make all Master Pilot titles to just 'Master Imperial/Rebel Pilot or just Master Pilot'
>Add PvP rankings. 5 PvP kills gets you 'Ace' title, like in the X-wing books (iirc). 50 PvP kills gets you 'Legendary Pilot'. You can only get PvP points off any one pilot once, and thats it. The points also start to decay after Ace pilot, so whilst that is 'gettable', Legendary Pilot is something that would really be respected, and the aformentioned points in place would hopefully prevent Space Fightclubs. Getting these titles would just get you the title and maybe some new clothing, but only things 'for looks'.
>Add as many Star Wars/Expanded Universe ships as I could get my mitts on! Grab the essential guide to vehicles/ships, and put the whole lot of em in
.>Add weapons of mass destruction, like Deathstar ripoffs. Big satillites with stupidly large guns designed to attack planets, designed by the Empire, with specific weakpoints that require good piloting skills to destroy. Would provide some 'terrain' for fights. Imperials would get to destroy Rebel medical facilities with likewise weakpoints.
>Add some silly 'easter eggs'. Maybe a 'Red Baron' fokker WWI plane that spawns in an out-of-the-way place, and only if certain parameters are met (Someone destroys X amount of spawns in Y amount of time in the system, and it flys in for a few seconds). Just random jokes to make people grin, but only in really rare occurences. Simpler easter eggs would be doing things like putting '[name of developer] woz ere!] graffiti onto places on stations that are not usually looked at.
>Add a new ship, the Jedi starfighter MXC 91435403, with 700 gun slots. Certified to Jedi, but when they launch it automatically blows up with a system message 'Vader says Hi!'
Ok, so the first few suggestions were actually semi-serious
Alyxian
Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:06 pm
#15
Loot only Wookie Razor(tm). +1000 to KD a Wookie, and you get to shave it when it is down.
Onari
Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:43 am
#16
alrighty then. I have some ideas that i'll add just for fun 
(I wont add costs since they could be changed easily)
-extra pilot jackets/helmets with a variety of colours and styles aswell as boots, gloves and trousers. Also different pilot suits for experimental ship pilots.
-sub components which can be handed to a SW and implemented to make a nice component, adding more than 1 of these components would exponentionaly increase the other resources which would make the component, meaning you could have an uber weapon but it would cost ALOT of cash and prestige.
-upgrades to MP ships, additional slots for weapons, armour, shields, extra turrets or rooms for storage, etc.
-experimental (which in games means better for some reason) ships, which were not yet in mass production but would have been tested at the time the game is set (someone could come up with the names of the ships since I dont know any of the EU stuff).
-pilot titles, show you are an experienced pilot with your "Master Elite Ace Pilot" title
-furniture for MP ships including fixed things like the pilots chair, also the ability to change the floors and walls to fit your decor.
-new looking components which a SW can add onto any RE part which makes the part look better, IE the engine will look more futuristic or weapons will have a new colour and look differnt on your choosen ship.
-medals which could either be displayed in a case or on your pilot jacket.
-new ship textures and pain kits (always wanted a silver awing)
-new kits for MP ships which would enable you to change the mesh of it to make it look bulkier or sleaker. The nova is very ugly
but I think the MP ship should be able to be altered to fit whatever look you want.
erm...thats about it atm im sure others can add more if they try
(I wont add costs since they could be changed easily)
-extra pilot jackets/helmets with a variety of colours and styles aswell as boots, gloves and trousers. Also different pilot suits for experimental ship pilots.
-sub components which can be handed to a SW and implemented to make a nice component, adding more than 1 of these components would exponentionaly increase the other resources which would make the component, meaning you could have an uber weapon but it would cost ALOT of cash and prestige.
-upgrades to MP ships, additional slots for weapons, armour, shields, extra turrets or rooms for storage, etc.
-experimental (which in games means better for some reason
) ships, which were not yet in mass production but would have been tested at the time the game is set (someone could come up with the names of the ships since I dont know any of the EU stuff).-pilot titles, show you are an experienced pilot with your "Master Elite Ace Pilot" title
-furniture for MP ships including fixed things like the pilots chair, also the ability to change the floors and walls to fit your decor.
-new looking components which a SW can add onto any RE part which makes the part look better, IE the engine will look more futuristic or weapons will have a new colour and look differnt on your choosen ship.
-medals which could either be displayed in a case or on your pilot jacket.
-new ship textures and pain kits (always wanted a silver awing
)-new kits for MP ships which would enable you to change the mesh of it to make it look bulkier or sleaker. The nova is very ugly
but I think the MP ship should be able to be altered to fit whatever look you want.erm...thats about it atm im sure others can add more if they try
BadChef
Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:52 am
#17
At a high cost, be able to land at certain factional POI's and bases. It's fun traveling to em the first few times, but when I'm helping my buds and new Rebs run through them it gets to be like the same old bus route. What would be realy nice is to spend all that extra on a full flight suit maybe, with a mod or two on each peice, uncludeing....a new helmet or hat.
Weasel7479
Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:24 am
#18
a couple of things I'd like to see is;
rebel pilot helmets, like from the movies and for each pilot i.e. A-wing pilot helmet, y-wing pilot helmet. They showed alot of cool rebel pilot helmets in Return of the Jedi.
more uniforms for the rebels, like the b-wing flight suit with the box on the front of it, but in different colors. like the green one the a-wing pilots wore.
for Imperials, the brown ace jacket like is worn by the tier 3 Storm squardon trainer. Maybe a special jacket/helmet for each squadron.
special TIE Pilot flight suits for each squadron, for example one like Baron Fel has in the comic books.
allow Imperial pilots to get, from recrutier or a schematic for a tailor, allow Imperial pilots to have black Imperial uniform complete with black Imperial command hat.
Fix rebel ships to have colors and patterns like those from the movies.
Fill in that huge black void in the middle of YT-1300s with some kind of room or rooms. (turn the map on sometime while in one you can see it)
Fix flight suits, jackets, all pilot reward clothing to have terrian navigation mods like the old faction theme park rewards do.
Space stations in special zones like Deep Space that is ace level content and quests. Pilots could visit Grand Admiral Zaarin (from TIE Fighter game) and do quests flying prototype starfighters for him, after all Zaarn till his attempted coup was head of TIE class starfighter research and development. Or for rebels have Ackbar or General Madine, doing special "covert ops" type missions...like say one where steal a certain Imperial shuttle. Be a great way to make use of that starship boarding/assault code the devs made that the corvette dungeon was a test of.
Space battlefields, sort of like deep space, but slightly controled by players. all pilots can take part but only ace pilots could access specials options, like calling for reinforcments. Huge fleet vs fleet battles could take place. There would be certain "set peices" that would always spawn but the ace pilots would have the ablitiy to reinforce thier faction's forces by spending prestige points for these reinforcements.
Add more basic ships, lots and lots of ships. Look in the RPG books, some of these books actually wrote and designed by the very devs now working for SOE on SWG. Also a great source is the old game X-Wing Alliance. There are so many different ships, freighters and such that fly over the NPCs citys but they are not in JTL no where!! The models must exisit some where as we see the very model of the ships fly over the cities. Add these as back ground decorations to JTL. Certainly there are more than one type of freighter in the galaxy. Every other mission has you escort the same type of freighter!!!! add some change, make it interesting! You have the entire star wars sage to gather resources from so there is no lack of sources.
DosWindo
Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:40 am
#19
Very good ideas, I think. Good post! But as much as it would be nice to lock in that Firespray and keep it from decaying, it's a good point that that would interfere with Shipwright biz. A one-time reward for longevity is one thing, but to give something like that in a way that could be grinded several times is asking for trouble.
The ultimate bottom line is I DO think we really need something to spend prestige points on, and I'd like to hope that they intended prestige points to get you more than into Deep Space.They should be spent like faction points on things similar to what you can get from factions, mebbe even NPC ships, as you can buy troops on the ground. Faction based textures and other nifty neato visual mods. Ship furniture is a very good idea. Different engine looks... blue, red, green glow... same with the blasters. I want neon for my X-wing! ;p I'd like to think it's all possible, and I can't imagine why not.
There's lot's of cool stuff that could be made that won't interfere with the biz of our artisan buddies, methinx.
TheDarkmoons
Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:46 am
#20
DosWindo wrote:I want neon for my X-wing!
Neon...
*Gets bad flashbacks of Ultima Online*
Sar-larid
Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:30 am
#21
I'd like to buyschematics forenhancements that could be added to chassis datapad ships, or at LEAST ata Shipwright'sblueprint construction stage.
PYR-speed-Acceleration-Deceleration enhancements, mass boosts(Helloooo Z-95, I've missed you), gun/ordinance mounts(oh, how I would like this one for the low-level TIE's, and it wouldn't even need a new graphic)
TheDarkmoons wrote:
I want to paint my X-wing <TRUE BLACK!!!>,
Neon... *Gets bad flashbacks of Ultima Online*
DosWindo wrote:
I want neon for my X-wing!
deadOne
Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:03 pm
#22
I'd add a "historic simulator" to allow master pilots and a group of their friends to go to their trainer and run a simulation of the battle of yavin. They have to use the simulated ships with a fixed amount of loadouts to make it even more challenging.
This would be an instanced environment like the vette. If you win for your side I.E. prevent the loss of the deathstar, or if rebel succeed in destroying it, the trainer says something like "You demonstrated exceptional tactical ability I am going to sent the logs of your battle to our pilot academy for new recruits to review." If you lose the trainer says " You put up a valiant effort, and we had our best pilots there that day, maybe you can review their flight recorders for some pointers"
The reward of course includes a badge, and maybe some kind of apparel/ship part. Of course you must have at least the rank of master pilot and 1 mil prestige to be allowed to participate in the simulation.
This would be an instanced environment like the vette. If you win for your side I.E. prevent the loss of the deathstar, or if rebel succeed in destroying it, the trainer says something like "You demonstrated exceptional tactical ability I am going to sent the logs of your battle to our pilot academy for new recruits to review." If you lose the trainer says " You put up a valiant effort, and we had our best pilots there that day, maybe you can review their flight recorders for some pointers"
The reward of course includes a badge, and maybe some kind of apparel/ship part. Of course you must have at least the rank of master pilot and 1 mil prestige to be allowed to participate in the simulation.
BillyBobthe50th
Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:23 pm
#23
you could also have..
Imperial destruction of skyhook, neutral vs imp,
tatooine orbit (for small groups) imp vs reb, TIEs have to take down Millenium Falcon
Lilloi
Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:31 pm
#24
(Reminds me of the movie speed)
You're a dev assigned to pilot profssion, what do you do? (danh danh dahhh)
Your profession has reached a barrier where pilots have little motivation to continue playing as the content was not developed for them beyond a certain point, what do you do!!!
Dev 1: I sit back and ignore them and give them just enough to keep them from quitting.
Dev 2: I continually try and fix one problem that no one cares about yet keep breaking it at the same time. (Plasma leak thingy)
Dev 3: I select awesome pilot correspondants who rally the community together making them think change is on the horizon then I ignore all the feedback received from him.
Dev 4: I play with my star wars toys on my desk all day!!!!
Dev 5: I give Jedi their own ship that fires lightsabers and has near invincible shields!
Dev 6: I add pointless duty missions which are essentially just cut and paste copy's of mission offered elsewhere in the game and call them NEW!
Dev 7: I change the price on entering deep space to 1 million pilot prestige!!!
(All devs) oooooo, the force is strong with that one....
lmao made me laugh
JediGohan
Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:39 pm
#25
I dont want to have to spend a lot on a new KSE if mine becomes destroyed so that i cant play it
Alyxian wrote:
I personally do not like this one, or anything around it. Come on, how much do you really spend at a SW? I have gone through several mastries, and PvP in real space quite a bit, and have yet to replace a chassis. This is not a good idea, and would alienate the SW, who are bread and butter for some things, even more.
ThGilsRooc wrote:
- Chassis anti-decay kit (reobtained when deed is destroyed). Cost 50mil prestige
Message Edited by ThGilsRooc on 04-25-2005 03:45 PM
Alyxian
Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:11 am
#26
I understand that sentiment, but I feel the same about my RIS armour on the ground.
/shrug Not going to stop me from wearing it