Pilot Archive
Thread: Rank and JTL
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billdougan
Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:20 pm
#1
Before JTL was even in beta, the devs mentioned that they intended to make rank meaningful to a pilot (ie your rank would determine what ships you were allowed to fly). Anyone know what happened to the idea. Did the scrap it completely?
newwb
Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:04 pm
#2
ummmmmm...
that is the case. how far along in pilot you are determines what ships and components your certified to fly
newwb
Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:59 pm
#4
okay, well in order to get faction points in space, you need to be declared, and your right there are no faction perks for space
Vrond
Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:02 am
#5
basically you have 2 ranks in space cadet then pilot officer your army rank has no bearing on your space navy rank.
billdougan
Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:37 am
#6
I'm really bad at explaining things I guess.
What I meant was at one time they said your ground factional rank would have some usefulness with Jump to Lightspeed, ie you would have access to more/better ships or something in that vein.
For example, heres an old post where someone was selling Rebel faction before JTL, as it was said rank would have some meaning in the future (sorry don't know how to make it clicky)
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=ahazi_trade&message.id=141088&highlight=rank+jump+to+lightspeed#M141088
Krite
Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:05 am
#7
But there's nothing in there from any Dev/Cor that says Faction Rank would play a part, just what some player incorrectly assumed would be the case.
Message Edited by Krite on 02-02-2005 02:11 AM
Rea-wiDarkfly
Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:59 pm
#8
I remember having read about that a few weeks before JTL was released too. And that was in an official announcement. That's why I ranked my char up to Colonel and gathered as many fp as I could. It really sucks that there is no benefit from that now that the expansion is out.
Thanks for reminding us of that issue, I had almost forgotten about it.
Anyway, looks like the Devs have decided to completely seperate space and ground faction, the only link is that you can't become anpilot of your opposing faction. Oh and you can gain fp in space, but that's about it ...
bpraswid
Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:43 pm
#9
I hope navy faction rank can be implemented depends on your tier skill, not by earning Faction Points. It's odd a corporal flying B-Wing master ship. 
Durik_Lakmor
Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:45 am
#10
bpraswid wrote:I hope navy faction rank can be implemented depends on your tier skill, not by earning Faction Points. It's odd a corporal flying B-Wing master ship.
i don't think that rank should effect piloting rank, i mean first off there aren't enough ships, and if person A is a Colonel and person B is a coporal, but the coporal spends 8hrs in space and the Colonel only 2 then why should the colonel be a better person for space?
simply put ground and space are and should be kept pretty seperate outside of crafting and such. while i think a cool idea might be more options for decals for higher ranks or something purely visual like that would be acceptable, the idea of ground rank being able to determine your space worthiness is kind of just blah
Dezrick
Mon Feb 07, 2005 5:29 am
#11
Yes there was mention of a factional rank bonus long before JTL was released, but it never transpired. I remember it because all of our guild went hell for leather getting factional promotions.
bpraswid
Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:25 pm
#12
I think JTL rank should be separated from Ground rank. There for it suppose to be a navy rank. And a pilot suppose to start with ensign (starting rank for navy officer).
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