Pilot Archive

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Kynth wrote:

Allow ships to dock in space

Then allow players to transfer between ships e.g. Fighter -> POB. That way friends can link up without having to travel, land, hit their overloads and would let them man a POB more easily. Have uncrewed/unmanned ships de-spawn. Handy. I think everyone would want this, including the devs, its just a matter of programming difficulty.

Group owned ships

An option to allow any player on the ships Admin list, who is also certified for the ship, tolaunch the vessel from a starport. A group of friends or a guild could then maintain a few POB ships for use by authorised guild members or otherfriends. Cool. Like that other poster said: errr... sure!

Re-arming

Let players reload their missiles from their cargo hold. Have a terminal next to the weapons conduits or similar location where they can feed torpedos into the magazine. Why it wasn't like this from the start is anyone's guess.

Fixed Forward turrets

Allow unmanned turrets to be locked into a Fixed Forward position and be fired by the pilot. Just like the turret in the Y-wing. I personally want this, but the potential imbalances do have to be considered. Of course, its not like you could ever pose a serious challenge to a good starfighter pilot in one of these, even with the upcoming improved elite components, but we should wait and see how those turn out.

Auto-tracking turrets

An ideal, really. Allow your turrets to fire upon your target automatically, even if it's vastly reduced accuracy. Definitely a good idea, and I don't think this would be imbalancing, as long as there is a sufficient penalty to accuracy, damage, and fire rate. Even if I'm still a sitting duck from the penalties, at least I'll be firing back.

Unmanned pilot seats

I would like a POB to continue to fly in the last direction at the same speed even with nobody in the pilots seat. This would be great for autopiloting to a waypoint then kicking back to chat with your friends. Certainly. No brainer.

Ops chairs

Allow members of another faction to man your operations seat. An Imperial can't help out a Freelance friend with flying his YT-1300? That's not very fun. Too many faction conflict issues, but at the same time, yeah, its not fun.

More POB's!

Withthe upcomingfive turret Y-8, we're in Capital ship territory. Nebulon-B's! Correllian Corvettes! Or even Action V transports! Gallofrees! Ebon Hawks! Mmmm... capital ships.

KSE Firespray

Why isn't this a POB ship already?! It's the rarest ship in the game, and one of the most iconic ships in SW,carries a crew and has a hold.It also has trouble competing against other vessels in JtL. Did you see Jango's Slave I keep up with Obi-Wan's Aethersprite in Episode II? I think there's room enough in the Firespray for a toilet, and a cage for captured bounties. Not really enough to want to take up the devs' time with, methinks.

Travel Times

Do away with instant travelling. Make people have to use their ships to hyperspace to somewhere new. If you travel by Shuttle between planets via the ground game, move the players to a 'Passenger Lounge' roomwhere they have to wait one minute (that's not very long) before they reach their destination. A POB ship becomes a great passenger ship. That idea sounds good at first. But the charm wears off quickly. I think we all loved that hyperspace jump animation when JtL was first released, but after a while, screw it, just get me to Lok, thanks.

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Maverick867 wrote:

I just really want the fixed forward firing guns all of the other ideas are great but i just want to be able to fight my way out of a jam or acctually be able to take my POB ship with some friends and fight with them instead of relying on them in my ship to do everything. that would make me the happiest pilot in this game if i could just be defensive in the ship without having a crew.

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Fixed forward firing guns - YES

Auto-tracking guns - NO, why, for PvP they would be a killer, just park your POB at the enemy hypepoint, in PvE just park at a NPC spawn and watch the money and loot roll in (macroing in space by any other name)>