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This is all great stuff,I like the orbital bombardment,imperials raiding a rebel base a imperial scout sees a few rebels hanging about so the ground force sends a message toatransmission shipin orbit around the said planet to jam transmissions around a certain radious of meters around the coordnates (x,y) and players of the rebelion side cant use tells or recieve them around the area then another group of players can use a star destroyer or some other large ship to send down a orbital strike to the said coordnates from the ground forces and there should be a windup and cooldown process for the orbital strike and transmission jam.

I totally concur with all these 'ideas'...Especially with multiple single-man fighters ala an Aircraft-Carrier/BS Galactica...Not in that enormous scale yet (/praying hopefully)...Maybe just because I LIVE on an Aircraft-Carrier, but I do love the appeal of scrambling some fighter support in capital-scale scenarios...

I would love to see something like this in the game, we do need more craftable ships to be honest and space needs to become more lively, it's the only way i dont have to fight my way through the crowds of jedi pvp'ing round Theed

Don't know if anyone mentioned this one yet, but if we have larger capital ships (say SSDs), then we should also have boarding actions. Give players a chance to blow up a Vette or SSD from the inside.

Slim Vargo, Corbantis

Boarding parties are another of my favorite ideas. I've got a Smuggler also, and would LOVE to see this added. I want enemies that are going to try and board and search me, not always try to blast my into my constituent atoms. It would be great for PvP and faction wars too.

As far as the BIG ships, I'm down. I think it should be IMPOSSIBLE to run one without aFULL crew... no solo piloting SDs and such, but as a smuggler, I would love to see "Bulk Frieghters" that can be "Modified" for combat. I'm practically dying for them to add the rest of the iconic ships too, like the Imperial Shuttles, Rebel Transports, etc.

The one thing i would probably love to see most from Capital Ships is teh ability to land / launch. There's very little in the way that lets you form a "squadron", and this would go a loooonnnnnng way. Maybe add in frigates and cruisers, at the very least.

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EdOWar wrote:

Don't know if anyone mentioned this one yet, but if we have larger capital ships (say SSDs), then we should also have boarding actions. Give players a chance to blow up a Vette or SSD from the inside.

Slim Vargo, Corbantis

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Uhh, I think we might want to consider smaller craft, like Corellian corvettes or a Star Destroyer (which is pretty big already), before we consider some 8 kilometre long vessel such as the SSD.

I'd be happy to just see some medium sized ships that have a decent amount of turrets like the rebel and imperial gunboats from the missions. Just a ship with like 4-5 turrets minimum to make it worth the effort.

It's funny to hear the term small capital ships. To the Navy, Capital ships are the big ones. Battleships, dreadnoughts, and aircraft carriers. Smaller ships, corvettes, frigates, and destroyers, are escorts I believe. Not sure where cruisers fall.

But I agree, a small ship like a corvette or frigate would be fun

Has anyone thought to make a list of the appropriate Capital Ships? I'd rule out SSDs and Death Stars (duh), but everything from SDs down to gunboats, Weapons and defense platforms, etc, should be fair game.

I was always under the impression that a Star Destroyer had a skeleton crew around 500ish lol.

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JediNg wrote:

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EdOWar wrote:

Don't know if anyone mentioned this one yet, but if we have larger capital ships (say SSDs), then we should also have boarding actions. Give players a chance to blow up a Vette or SSD from the inside.

Slim Vargo, Corbantis

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Uhh, I think we might want to consider smaller craft, like Corellian corvettes or a Star Destroyer (which is pretty big already), before we consider some 8 kilometre long vessel such as the SSD.

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Lol k,...a YT-1300 is 27m....

Star Destroyer- 1,606m with a crew of 36,810 and 275 Gunners...

Executor Class Star Destroyer- 17,600m with a crew of 279,144 and 1,590 Gunners...

Star Destroyers of any size are way to big to be considered for PC craft. Maybe they could add a small cruiser to each of the Master level certs. However, even small cruisers take a huge crew to run.

Rebel- Nebulon-B Escort Frigate- 300m

Crew: 920

Mercenary- Hapes Nova Class Battle Cruiser- 400m

Crew: 1,700 with 90 Gunners

Imperial- Strike Class Cruiser- 450m

my preferred idea for star destroyers and the other capital ships seems to have already been begun with the avatar station over kashyyyk. a nice big floating city (god i'd love for them to be used as player cities in space) that allows people to dock/land and tour about, fight or whatever. it'd be nice to offer repairs, shopping, promotions, and missions...maybe even the much begged for shipwright hangars