Pilot Archive

Message Edited by SonofKashyyk on 07-04-2005 07:35 AM

I doubt either of those would fly.

1.) No reason to have increased YPR in a POB ship, makes it so the gunners can't aim, and there's no use trying to dodge in something that big. Plus, that would make it more manueverable than many fighters (If it went up to 100%), which makes no sense for a 5 million mass ship.

2.) People have wanted auto-targeting in turrets for a long while now, still haven't gotten it yet. I believe the general concensus from the devs is that POB ships are supposed to have a crew, not be just a big solo ship. Plus, it wouldn't really work either. You would either have piss poor accuracy and it wouldn't even be worth using it, or you'd have pinpoint accuracy and everyone would be using POB ships with infallible aim instead of regular fighters. It would also enable space AFK grinding, and thats never good.

Best thing that can be done for the POB ships is to make it so that all of the POB ship parts are worthwhile, and give them some kind of innate shield/armor mod so they can actually do PvP to some extent.

I don't see a problem with giving the POB ships a single gun on the nose that can be controlled by the pilot. The ship's strength is still in it's turrets and with a single pilot-controlled gun a POB wouldn't be the best choice for solo fighting, but it would at least be possible.

As far as the YPR goes, I think what they have now is fine. With the engine I have in mine, at 50% or 60% throttle I can dive and roll it over pretty fast. Shields strong enough to repel a handful of hits in PvP would be a nice addition, though.

There has been some discussion of allowing Smugglers to slice ship components. I seem to remember reading somewhere that it was almost certainly going to go in at some point. That should take care of all of your customization needs. I just hope you don't get a bad slice on that pre-nerf RE'd engine.

Someone please....WTH is POB?

It is on some weapons (POB Only) and stuff and I have no CLUE what it means.

Portalized OBject. The YT-1300, Nova, and Decemator are the three main ones. The Y-8 and Yacht also count, but are less often considered as the Y-8 is not a combat vessel, and the Yacht cannot be upgraded.

The only turret change I could condone would be independent tracking. A perfect example of this is in the groundgame when riding in someone's vehicle. Your camera stays where you point it, no matter where the speeder turns. In space this would need to be be modified since it is true 3d not faked like the ground, but an independently trakcing turret would go a long way to making gunners and pilots a lot more effective.

Actually, POB means 'Party On Board'. Its in the knowledge basei think.

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WingZero890 wrote:
Actually, POB means 'Party On Board'. Its in the knowledge basei think.

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That is the general player's nterpretation of what POB stands for and is a easy way to remember which ships qualify (however does not include ships with gunners only like the Krayt - must be a ship you can get out of your seat and walk around in) but actually Portalized Object is in fact the correct Dev term for POB.

no..what we need is an extra slot or 2 on the ship terminal. like have a blank slot that u can put anything into..an extra engine for back up incase ures gets blown, another weap, gun, cargo hold...Boba Fett did this to his Slave I, theres hidden guns and stuff....we should be able to have that also

I can't understand why it would be so hard to just have the turrets linked to the foward position. Sure, you'd probably be firing level 10 guns, but that's if you can get something in your sights...

So are you all willing to take the problems that come with modifying your ship like solo did? Are you willing to have the main computer shut down on you when you try and hit the launch button on the terminal and have to buy a new component or go get a repair kit? Or be unable to hyperspace out of a system because the systems are malfunctioning?

Han and chewie were ALWAYS having to repair or replace something on the Falcon to keep her running and it usually happened at an inopportune time. Somehow i doubt players would put up with that kind of reliability hit when they just want to launch into space and blow stuff up, or even just travel from one starport to another.