Pilot Archive
Thread: Petition To Use Pilot Prestige In The Force Sensitive Village.
KaylBreinhar wrote:
If SW were no-cost, every professional pilot would be one.
What use has a professional pilot have for skill points anyway?
KaylBreinhar wrote:
And you wanna know who KINDA gets screwed here? Shipwrights. Even though it's pretty damned easy (albeit costly) to grind SW, they CAN'T get conversion, because the SECOND they do, all you advocates are gonna turn the volume to 11 and start screaming in unison "THEY GOT IT, WHY DON'T WE?!?!?! HUH!?!??! HUH!?!?!?"
As I said, space is laggy enough now without having mindless grinding going on.
quadpers0n wrote:
fyi, you can't load kill anyone anymore.
It gets hard to detect the sarcasm in these threads sometimes, between some of the wacky ideas that crop up and SOE's very own brand of humor.
Loki_Ashaman wrote:
Sarcasm is lost on you, yes? Let me phrase it this way: I want a use for prestige, a SPACE use. I want space CONTENT. I want more peopleIN space enjoying SPACE.
Your post mentioned that converting prestige to FS would turn DS into the new grenade grind, and I jokingly agreed with a FS conversion because that would mean there are more then a handful of people in space on the smaller servers: people to fly with, people to fly against.
quadpers0n wrote:you were at his machine when it happened? perhaps there's a bug assiociaed with dialup but the timer starts when you finish loading. it doesn't have anything to do with the speed of your machine or anything else.
i have serious doubts as to whether or not it's possible and considering i have killed many pilots trying to take down the ISD when i load in DS, i'm inclined to say the code is relatively bug free, especially since my computer is very slow at loading.
i'm alot more inclined to believe they loaded in a zone, sat there for a second daydreaming, got blown up, and blaimed it on a load kill without realizing that load killing is technically impossible. there's another thread on this board where someone says he got load killed, then in his next post says he has a hard time determining friend or foe when cycling upon loading into the zone. which is it?
i can't prove the code is rock solid, of course, but i've seen the load killing prevention mechanism work over 30 times and i've never seen it fail once.
hey prove me wrong though, should be easy enough to test.
Don't move your mouse or touch your keyboard while you're loading, it fools the timer.
nope. not true. the timer starts the second the graphics load up on your screen, it has nothing to do with mouse movement.
i tested with 2 workstations first. moving the mouse on the loading individual while firing at him from the pilot in DS. beeps until 5 seconds after the graphics popped up on the loading pilot's screen.
i tested with the same conditions only moved the joystick instead.
once more moving both mouse and joystick.
another thread a guy says you have a split second to shoot someone the second their ship materializes. gonna test that right now....
uselessn00b wrote:
Loki_Ashaman wrote:
I want a use for prestige. FS would be nice, but I'd much rather have other (more space directed) uses. BUT when you put it this way, I'm all for it suddenly. Why, lots and lots of easy targets. That'd be the closest to the Jedi vs BH conflict I'll ever get probably, hunting Jedi-wanna-be's in space.
So, if not in DS you'd be hunting those who hadn't made it to jedi yet andare not flying declared...so you couldn't attack them anyway? Or if it was in DS, you wouldsee people camping spawn pointsshooting down pilots before they've even loaded in (something i personally loathe and detest)
And ifprestige got converted to FS xp, what next? Demands for jedi only ships (oh wait we got that already)... demands for jedi ships that give jedi xp for each kill,Not to mention the crys of nerf assoon as a few jedi get shot down, etc. etc. etc. It would get very messy very quickly and IMHO would kill space stone dead.
If anything, convert prestige into some type of faction points (obviously a smuggler/freelance faction would be needed for this to work properly) Use these point to purchase schems, (providing support to shipwrights and crafters), support strikes (what about 1mill prestige for Rogue Sqdn to come support reb pilots for 2 mins or a temporary cloak that would let Smugglers Alliance pilots steal cargo?) but most importantly, access to new master level quests.
all you people saying no. there needs to be a reason. what is it?
inquiring minds want to know.
2 thumbs up for this idea.
quadpers0n wrote:
you were at his machine when it happened? perhaps there's a bug assiociaed with dialup but the timer starts when you finish loading. it doesn't have anything to do with the speed of your machine or anything else.
i have serious doubts as to whether or not it's possible and considering i have killed many pilots trying to take down the ISD when i load in DS, i'm inclined to say the code is relatively bug free, especially since my computer is very slow at loading.
i'm alot more inclined to believe they loaded in a zone, sat there for a second daydreaming, got blown up, and blaimed it on a load kill without realizing that load killing is technically impossible. there's another thread on this board where someone says he got load killed, then in his next post says he has a hard time determining friend or foe when cycling upon loading into the zone. which is it?
i can't prove the code is rock solid,of course, but i've seen the load killing prevention mechanism work over 30 times and i've never seen it fail once.
hey prove me wrong though, should be easy enough to test.
Was on-line but not flyingwhen it happened, it was a newace and a veteran ace who isn't likely to be daydreaming and 2 together seemed kinda strange.Guild chat got kinda colourful after the vet ace jumped back in and got a "haha!" tell from the alledged camper.
It was apparentlybusy in DS and the server was kinda jittery on the ground (has been since last publish)...if that had something to do with it, i have no idea, either way i've heard from a few other people on the server that the same thing has happened to them too recently. It might be a bug, i don't know but jumping the timer up another 5 seconds wouldn't hurt.
Anyway, this is getting off topic and the sooner this thread dies off the better.