Pilot Archive

Sure it is! One of my guildmates and I temporarily left the Alliance and joined the Imperial starfighter corps. After we returned, we wrote a nice little RP story about returning to our allies after having spent months undercover in the Imperial Navy, gathering information on starfighter deployments and tactics.

Halyn Lance -- Rara Avis Flight School
Common sense is highly uncommon.
...has mastered the Pilot profession.
"I'll type this slowly so even Imperials can understand..."--Michael Stackpole, RS IRC

I can certainly understand wanting to try all the faction missions. Ithink I might build me an Imp on some random server somewhere and try those missions, just ta see how much tougher it is.

I think the biggest reward anyone should get for 9x mastery is a 10th badge. Anything else, access to ships, prerequisite for a profession, more equipment (even more than the 9x Reward items they have), would be unfair. The "gotta grind 'em all"mentality has already done a lot to hurt the ground game, I see no reason to resurrect it here.

Gilack Mehoipou [Bloodfin]

Quintuple Master- Marksman/Squad Leader/Rifleman/Vortex Pilot/Politician

Made it before all hell broke loose.

A firespray as reward?

Remeber. you lived in a time of kiwi.

I think the original idea has merit, but I would say it shoud go more like:

9x Ace, now an Imp: You can fly all Imp and all freelance ships.

Damn Lithium...sorry for double

My two credits:

Astromechs are not faction specific. As a rebel, my Awing and Nova use flight comps; all other reb fighters use droids. They are ship specific. I have both in operation.

I don't support multi-ace certs, but I do support an elite pilot tree for X number of masters.

Bad idea. Does it really need to be explained why? Ok, space pvp is not very balanced as it is. If you could choose at a whim to fly a specific fighter from any faction you could pick the best type of fighter to fight against whichever particular enemy that you are going to fight. That wouldn't be very fair or realistic. You have chosen which faction to fly for, so live with the ships that they get to use. From the timeline perspective it would be crazy to have rebel pilots flying ties, and vice versa.

I'd rather have it based on prestige points spent allowing you to purchase a specific ship certification.

As for those saying they don't want to see a rebel flying around in a tie or whatnot. Rebels are... well... rebels. They'd fly any ship they could possibly get their hands on. If they could swing getting a Super Star Destroyer can you really see them mothballing it cause it 'doesn't look right'?

The only reason rebs might notuse imperial ships is their strategy is to train up elite pilots and put them in ships with shields to make sure a goodly number of their elite pilots come back, and tie's aren't typically known for their survivability.

Look at the extended universe if you really must. Tons of former Imperial pilots (where do you think most of the rebel pilots come from anyway? They can't all be farmboys/girls who just happened to have an interest in flying), and many feel too set in their ways to switch ships. So they fly Alliance tagged Interceptors.

So I have no problem with allowing any ace pilot who's once held an ace in a given faction to be able to use pilot prestige to rebuy their cert.

Plus its something to do with those prestige points.

And you could make each additional certification cost significantly more PP than the one before so people would really have to do some serious work to get certed for all ships. And possibly even put a cap of like three to five ships you could buy back the certs for... ever.

I aim to misbehave!