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Thread: A Petition on Escorts....
Reydon wrote:I think they should be more intense, but shorter. That's it.
That's basically my thoughts condensed into an easily digestable package
I would like it if some missions had the quest-giver ask if you'd like to do a short, intense escort or a long, less-fightey one.
Something along the lines of "Pilot, we need you to escort xxx through the yyy sector! We have two options - to send the ship on a long course on the outskirts of the enemy fleet, or to charge right through it! I leave the choice to you." for example.
JediNg wrote:
I'm for making 'em longer AND more intense
Meh. I don't see a need to make (most of) them shorter, but making them longer seems kind of silly. I am reminded of the escort mission I had to do as a Rebel pilot to land at the Rebel base on Rori. And you want to make that longer?!
Reydon wrote:
Ritha, do Storm Squadron (bestine, imp), or Smugglers Alliance (Mos Eisley, Freelance). Youll change your mind.
I've done every squadron in every faction already.
Croll wrote:
Sorry, but why would you possibly bring up "real world" wars in this discussion about a game? It makes no sense as we are talking about a game. It has no relevance to the discussion at hand. You want an idea of the sorts of escort missions that make for a fun game look at pretty much any space sim out there. Especially the Star Wars one's. Of course I have no concept of "real flight" because I am talking from the perspective of a video game, and never once insinuated that I had any more experience than that. There are plenty of "real world" flight sims out there that you can enjoy, butin the Star Wars movies and gamesthe battles are typically dogfights. I feel the same way about "real world" flight sims as I do the current escort missions. Flaming bamboo shoots under the fingernails for me. Been that way since I wasted too much time playing Dam Busters when I was a kid.
PS: I guess I need to clarify this too. I believe the escort missions AS THEY ARE should go away, but escort missions in general need to be revamped. If you feel that hours of little content in a mission is fun then I guess that is where we can agree to disagree, but if I am flying I want something to do other than loop de loops around the engine struts of whatever freighter I am escorting at that moment. Ipostedin this thread just to throw my two cents in, and am not going "Baaa-aaa /sign". Not only that, but I am an Ace Pilot. Why in the world am I escorting all these freighter's anyways? Shouldn't I be escorting capital ships into battle?
Message Edited by Croll on 08-02-2005 11:58 PM
I understand about it being a game. It isnt meant to be a pure flight combat game and it isn't meant to be a sim for real flight in any way. I would love it if we had real world exoatmospheric fighters though... That would be fun.
I'm all for modifying many of the escorts to make them more entertainng. Like huge waves that come at you from a diffrent direction. Only a few big waves that attak at diffrent times for each mission. Make it impossible for you to know "when" the enemy will attack. Stuff like that. In some case it should be nonstop combet. I think part of our problem is the fact the missions were meant for a group of players of that TIER. Not the 1-3 master pilots and then some lower tier pilots. These missions were hard back when I made Master. Why? Because there were less then 10 master pilots on my server then. Maybe part of teh fix will be a group level sysdtem that spawns the proper number and difficulty of enemy ships based on the group ad not the mission holder's Tier.
As for ACE. I realy don't think just because you can get soem freinds and lead an attack ona Vette you should be an Ace. An Ace would be killing 30 fighters 4 Vettes and aout 6 gunboats at the same time, SOLO.
Most of these people that are "aces" are nothing more then cannon fodder for those that are ace. Still would like to see the title of Ace become a Prestige point award and not soem mision completion reward.
Change the Titles to Elite Imperial/Rebel Pilot and Elite Pilot for Freelance.
But that is my personel opinion about the majority of the newest generation of pilots...
JediNgwrote:
Reydon wrote:
Ritha, do Storm Squadron (bestine, imp), or Smugglers Alliance (Mos Eisley, Freelance). Youll change your mind.
I've done every squadron in every faction already.
Reydon wrote:
JediNgwrote:
Reydon wrote:
Ritha, do Storm Squadron (bestine, imp), or Smugglers Alliance (Mos Eisley, Freelance). Youll change your mind.
I've done every squadron in every faction already.
Then ya know they are not all rediculously short.
Not storm, storms escorts were easy,but others like corsec and arkon's havoc were short and uneventful.
Hehe, lets do this- make them longer AND harder. Instead of /follow the transport for 80% of the time, or 100% if you want (they rarely die), Have the transport actually in danger of death and have more fighters spawn. AKA make it so you actually fly.
(Edit: the corvette escort for the kash station quest is a good example, ive had it killed by a gunboat several times)
Message Edited by WingZero890 on 08-07-2005 06:39 PM