Pilot Archive

Hello,

To be honest I didnt read all the posts. So if this has been suggested already, cool. We could go on all day about limitations for the capitol ships. And looks like we are. I LOVE TO FLY. I would love to have a capitol ship. So here is my Idea.

Make a new Tier for pilot.

Capitol Pilot

most players dont ever reach master. those that do, stop flying. With a new Tier for pilot not many will bother to get there to get one, and it they do, wont ever take it out of the hager. For those of us that trully enjoy being up there, we will have what we want without having to worry that every noob pilot is up there.

Well there it is.

Lumar-Imperial Ace

Oarkear-Corsec Master Pilot

If there's a badge or article of unique clothing rewarded for it, idiots will go out of their way to milk it.

Never underestimate the power of kitsch.

The idea of requiring PvP to interact with/fly/own/whateveryouwanttocallit a Capital Ship is ludicrous. MMOs need to be about variety and choices, and requiring a certain playstyle is just silly. And not having Capships for neutrals is similarly silly.

I read an interview, forget where, that was a Q&A with one of the project managers, who when asked about this offered something to the effect of "That film was put together as a demonstration of what may be possible. There are no plans currently to make this happen." or words to that effect. It struck me at the time that if they're trying to back peddle, they've come to the conclusion that these things would be terribly unbalancing, and therefore to scrap the idea.

I have to agree with ShogunArmada. Not everybody is in a guild and of those people, not all of them might want to be in a guild. I personally like to be unguilded. Why? because it is a personal preference. I am sure others have different reason. Making capitol ships only available to guilds would be unfair to people who either are not in a guild or choose not to be in a guild.

That being said, I feel that while capitol ships should be available to all who are able to get them (either by doing a very difficult and time consuming quest or by purchasing them with faction points)there need to be limits on how many capitol ships can be in a system at once. I think that about 3 or 4 capitol ships in a system at once is enough. That would keep people from just launching capitol ship after capitol ship.

I think that a group of eight players should be needed to crew a ship. Additional players of that faction (up to 8 more) could dock with the ship if they want to help repel boarders. An interesting idea would be to have npc's aboard the capitol ships to help in repelling boarders.

Careful, you wouldn't want to get "warned" like the Swordsman correspondent when HE requested repeated confirmation on why exceptional and loot-made PHes didn't convert as promised and were eclipsed by post-CURB-made ones.

Evidently he was warned for "badgering" the Developers.

Yeah, but I badger like a fox.

Still nothing to report in regards to the quote about player-controlled capital ships just being a demo off some designer's desk, as opposed to the future of the game as we were led to believe. I'm continuing to request clarification as to where we stand, though.

Okay, it's been three weeks now without any reply. My guess, then, is the quote about player-controlled capital ships being a demo as opposed to a serious possibility should be taken for what it's worth.

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TomoRainer wrote:
Okay, it's been three weeks now without any reply. My guess, then, is the quote about player-controlled capital ships being a demo as opposed to a serious possibility should be taken for what it's worth.

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You know what I find totally baffling? They have an elaborate Correspondent system, with separate forums and feedback threads and all that... and they don't have the common decency to actually talk to you guys and give answers to your questions when you ask them.

I mean, it's not like there's 250000 Correspondents so there's not enough time or resources, is it.

/sigh