Pilot Archive

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Capital Ships. We just got a sneak peak of a player, getting into and hypering out of a system in a corellian corvette. a fully realised interior, hyperspace capibility. Not sure ATM if there will be weapondry but I'm sure that the lovley coor might be able to fill us in

This report credited to Joras, Syclya, and Cobb

OMGG@1@GGg11!11!!

True Story!

I was there with those monkeys

From what I saw, soon we will be able to take on missions from captial ships, attack some captial ships, and then board and try to take it over and fly it away. The only ship they seemed to attack/board was the Corellian Corvette but it was still damn cool. Sitting on a bridge of the vette right on the captain's chair and seeing em hyper out was really something to wet the appitite!

Too bad they don't have a time frame for it!

Derek from Sunrunner signing off!

Remember, baby steps. After vettes, mon cals! who knows, we might get to Eclipse-Class SSDs someday

/shrug

Still can't move items up and down in my Y-8. Nothing leads me to believe that any new content will be less buggy than the one introduced up to now. So I'm not all that excited.

But I am curious about how exactly are they implementing capital ships (will players/groups of players actually own them?!), as the multiplayer ships we already have aren't exactly used much right now. There's a variety of issues regarding them that are probably applicable to the capital-ships-to-be too.

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Ghost25 wrote:

True Story!

I was there with those monkeys

From what I saw, soon we will be able to take on missions from captial ships, attack some captial ships, and then board and try to take it over and fly it away. The only ship they seemed to attack/board was the Corellian Corvette but it was still damn cool. Sitting on a bridge of the vette right on the captain's chair and seeing em hyper out was really something to wet the appitite!

Too bad they don't have a time frame for it!

Derek from Sunrunner signing off!

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Now that sounds much better than any concept of actual capital ship ownership.

hehe someone who flies a JSF and proudly states such in his sig is worried about JtL balance?

*sniff*

mmmm fresh hypocrisy.

Figure 7 turrets, however many people to do the repairs, and a co-pilot, you'd need minimum of 8 people with you to make it viable. I'd say it's not much of a ballance issue. Hell, imagine taking one of these things out in deep space for wide-scale PvP. I think it's prety cool, myself. You find one, disable it, dock, kill every last person in it, repair it, then it's yours. They'd have to add a single spot in your datapad for a capital ship for it to really be do-able. Think of the lag this would cause in space sectors, though.

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yodafaans wrote:

i am sorry to say this but capital ships as player ships is so wrong!!! if lets say they give us weapons that means i can use my capital ship and blast all ships in the sky around me by giveing a command. now as a bace ship were you can fly out from and clone at ok but as a combat ship no way that will truly make the jtl unbalanced

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Chances are your going to have to have a team of players with you. Not just give a command. If the defense are automated you do realize that normal gaming mechanics will dictated that the AI will not be able to hit the boardside of a krayt!

Message Edited by Geevo on 06-05-2005 04:40 AM