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Thread: The Captain's Chair A plead to the devs before Capital ships are added

Vampiric_Hoshi
Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:03 pm
#1
As it currently stands, the "captain's chair" on the Y-8 is currently the pilot and from what the fan fest videos suggest, the "Captain's Chair" on the Corvette is ALSO going to be the pilot's chair.


This is a plead to get that fixed. SWG is a "role play" game. How can we possibly "role play" a large vessel with a bridge when the pilot is sitting where the captain should sit and the pilot's seat at the front is two "ops" seats?


My suggestion is this:


Make the Captain's chair a co-pilot chair. This allows the Captain to have a ship's function while also being able to see the radar properly plus the outside of the ship and see all "space" spatial chat. It also allows the captain to have reduced in-flight functions which give him the chance to command rather than actually fly.


Then one of the two co-pilot "ops" chairs at the front can become a pilot's chair. This then places the pilot in a better position to see out the front of the ship and fly rather than having to use 3rd person view. It also places the pilot in a position that fits the role of "helm".


I don't want to fly a corvette, I want to captain one and in doing so, I want my captain's chair!



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JaekeW
Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:27 pm
#2

Sounds good to me






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DuncanIdahoTPF
Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:32 pm
#3
yea, makes toooo much sense....wont happen =)



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FataIity
Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:39 pm
#4
I don't wantCapital ships, I want a Sith Infiltrator and a Naboo N1 fighter. Our profession is Pilot, not Space Captian.



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ravingbantha
Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:43 pm
#5
Mabey they could add an Elite Pilot Profession, that allows pilots bonuses to being a ships captain. Or give some Squad Leader Bonuses in space...
DuncanIdahoTPF
Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:44 pm
#6
Yea, while capitol ships would be cool, I would perfer to have POB ships get upgraded and more of them added for variety.



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FataIity
Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:46 pm
#7
currently POB ships are crap, why would cap ships be any better? Give us a POB KSE and POB Infiltrator that are large fighters.



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Ihe-DuInora
Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:26 pm
#8
Oh, what capital ships will we get? And is this gonna be another expansion, cause if it is.....
Ihe-DuInora
Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:28 pm
#9
That is a great idea. What capital ships are we gonna see, though? I wanna command a lookalike of Home One, even though I'm most suited to be a starfighter pilot. The cockpit is for me, really.
Ihe-DuInora
Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:29 pm
#10
That is a great idea. What capital ships are we gonna see, though? I wanna command a lookalike of Home One, even though I'm most suited to be a starfighter pilot. The cockpit is for me, really.
Cisst
Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:38 pm
#11
count on the corvette, and maybe symilar sized ships... don't count however on star destroyers or mon cal cruisers, wouldnt make much sense anyway with the current size space boxes.
Fedrol
Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:55 pm
#12

i am sorry but I want a captain chair badly, even if I never command it. I only want one for a big House.


I hope we can have some, for it his the next step to the game. What you want for a next step? Maybe being able to enter atmospher and fly on sky.


I don't understand you. I start playing SWG because i could solo anytime I want and group anytime I want. I got a wife and 3 kids and i cannot do like I was doin in Everquest: sitting for 2 hours sending some LFG every 30 seconds. That his why CU scrap the land part in my view.


Please don't make demand only for you but for everyone else.





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Vampiric_Hoshi
Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:21 pm
#13

Fedrol I have no idea what you're going on about.


The Y-8 Mining Vessel (currently in-game) has 3 seats on the bridge. Two seats at the front and one in the middle. The two seats at the front are both co-pilot seats, the one in the middle is the pilot's seat.


However, a standard vessel's configuration would have a pilot seat at the front along with a co-pilot, and the seat in the middle being a captain's chair.


What this post is asking for is simply for the function of the chair in the middle to be swapped for the chair at the front (which is, quite frankly, nothing hard in terms of coding) to better suit the layout of the ship and give the pilot a better position to "fly" from while also giving people a chance to actually "captain" a ship.


As for what capitol ships there will be? The Corvette will be the first (if there are to be anymore) and if the FanFest videos are anything to go by, should hit live soon. There is a video available on the net of a demonstration of a player-controlled corvette and it shows that, like the Y-8, they have made the seat in the middle of the bridge the pilot's seat. Even though like the Y-8 there are two seats at the front. Stupidity in my opinion. Put the pilot seat where it should be.





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