Pilot Archive

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PixellJ wrote:
I'd rather have existing stuff working first. Yay, a capital ship! Does it work? It's SOE who knows.

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riotcontrol wrote:
/shrug

Still can't move items up and down in my Y-8. Nothing leads me to believe that any new content will be less buggy than the one introduced up to now. So I'm not all that excited.

But I am curious about how exactly are they implementing capital ships (will players/groups of players actually own them?!), as the multiplayer ships we already have aren't exactly used much right now. There's a variety of issues regarding them that are probably applicable to the capital-ships-to-be too.

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city things such as a recruiter, space mission terminals, a bazaar terminal for buying things from the planet below, ect..

On the inside of the ship should be lots of (like 20 or so) turrents that are useable by anyone inside. And combat can be handled just like inside other POB ships with turrents. Making these turrents usable by any faction member will help ensure there are usually some people manning the turrents which makes it feel more star-warsy and more fun.

Attacking these large capital ships can knock out systems like power to turrents or mission/bazaar terminals, and at an extream, make it possible for all other factions to board and engage in on-foot combat with everyone inside.

Broken things in these ships will stay broken until repaired using shipwright-crafted components. Not neccisarily high-resource objects, but maybe upper-skill-box schematics. That way the schematics would make a shipwright feel more powerful and useful, but not more drained monitarily.

Finally the large capital ships can be either stay in one place above a planet, (think naboo/corellia/tatooine) to start with.

Smaller capital ships (corellian corvette, ect..) could be player owned like regular ships.

ships.

My hopes:

Several smaller (think gunships) Capitals owned by players (make them take 2 or even 3 ship slots if necessary)

The Vette however would be 'borrowed' by either a boarding mission as seen in the movie or 'rented' with Prestige

8 gunners, a pilot, a copilot, and at least one engineer (you can invite 20 people to your Yacht still so that codingis still there)

Itolia Rapo
Master Tailor, Roleplayer, and HELPER 
(I'm just a glutton for punishment)


Galaxy City, Dantooine


							

30k prestige experience is a joke. 1 gunboat gets you more then that. i have almost 2 million just from helping w/ vette runs since i mastered. thats a lot of respawns. if its gonna be respawn back in the system at the cost of prestige points, it should be a high cost, so you can't just sit and respawn as long as you want unless you have a LOT of prestige.

I have no problem with cap ships the size of the blockade runner being owned by a single player. They're not that much bigger than a Y-8 any way. But they should still require a team to operate. But if we're talking ISD size cap ships then they should have to be owned by a guild.

Also, since they're implementing boarding action, I would very much like to see boardable space stations. Being able to walk around inside them and also being able to dock with and board other players ships.

They should be playered own or owned bya squadron this system would be seperate from guilds but they would be the same but for space . you could have a small space station or a hanger you can put on the ground. bigger the squadron bigger the ship kinda lik epolitician . but you get xp for being captin or smaller for smaller positions .

kazzabez master sw and freelance ace

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DarkBShadow wrote:
i like the capital ship being able to dock and fly away... however i do not want these ships to be player owned. I think best way to impliment it would be to have a space mission where you will have to go out to a certain sector and disable a vette. then you would have to dock and start to take over the ship by killing the NCP's on the vette and start repair all the systems. then go and repair it and you can go set off yourself. I would have the difficulty of the ship the same as the corvette mission. also only people who have the mission on this ship can attack it if it is not occupide by a Player team. And once one team starts to take it out then no one else can damage it or dock it. However you could have like 17 people on board taking it out via POB ship( i think it is 10 people. dont remeber) 8 people that are in a group with the person haveing the mission and 9 people that are in the POB hitching a ride. Once you completely taken over the vette all other people that had this mission gets a mission failed message and will have to go back to the quest giver NCP to get a mission for the vette that is now under the players controls.

You wouldn't need to take it back right away but you can take it for a joy ride first in Deep Space or something. However you would need to be carefull with this... since if someone has a mission on your corvette then you could be borded and have your ship taken over. and the opposeing team trying to take over your vette would ahve to kill all the people currently occupying the ship to take control of it and have to repair the systems. don't know how well this would work trying to take it over since you have the problem of cloning.

the max amount of corvettes that should be in space at a given time is 3... One for imperial pilots, One for Freelance pilots, One for Rebel pilots(master pilots of course). however any number of missions could be given out. and in order to get a vette that is currently occupied is that you need to take over a vette from the same faction memebers. Like only a freelance pilot can get a mission to obtain the freelance Vette. and so on. This is to keep it so that one faction doesn't have all the vettes under one control. And same deal as last part once a team starts attacking the vette it is locked out from anyone else trying to damage the ship.

This i believe would be a fun encounter. And would put Space and Ground PvP into one. And the most fought after Corvette imo would be the freelance corvette. Since it can be used for the imperial side or the rebel side giving that side an advantage on the battle field.

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That sounds like a sweet idea, ie rebel players get the vette and imps have to take it over wud be great battle in space pvp then great pvp on board when you dock it wud be sweet if they did that kinda like capture the flag with a capital ship