Pilot Archive

I think it sucks the eta-2 isnt a jedi ship, its just a ship two jedi happened to have flown in once.

plus the whole nice thing about space is I dont have to care who or what someone is landside in space its just me vs them

and our respective machines.

If you want it that bad go imperial for a bit, I did that with my alt then grinded the last tier of rebel pilot using just the JSF cos it's damn near impossible to hit.

Since its damn near impossible to hit there is your "jedi" buff.

No need to add anotehr thing to this fighter.

Yes I have one and I think its over the top.

I don't like the idea of any land profession getting access to spaceships that any pilot profession then couldn't use without it. Anyway it's always fun to see jedi whine about how life, the game, and all the other players owe them for playing a computer game enough to unlock jedi and that really we are all just jealiousbecause we don't want to set them up as a superclass in every part of the game. Always makes me happier to know I'm not like them no matter how bad a day I've had

I don't think they should write new quest to get the ships. The way it's set up now the eta you get is Vader's old one so it kind of fits with the storyline. Besides the bellebub is essientially the same ship and I got mine for 175k and my friend got one for 80k. Both in near perfect condition.

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Xis wrote:
I don't think they should write new quest to get the ships. The way it's set up now the eta you get is Vader's old one so it kind of fits with the storyline. Besides the bellebub is essientially the same ship and I got mine for 175k and my friend got one for 80k. Both in near perfect condition.

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I don't think the storyline is a great reason for not changing how it is set up. The storyline can be kinda fun but is completly silly as an explaination for where all the eta2 in the game come from, I mean considering how many eta2's I've seen around how many back up ships did vader have ? and if they did change it the storyline would change too.

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crashtestwolf wrote:

alright the post is not much to do with jedi... its a thought i had.

the eta-2 is a powerfull ship but as it is now you might as well get a bel-22 and the arc 170 is close to the same but it has a gunner...

why not make the eta-2 and the arc 170 non faction specific... (ok i know sounds wierd but read on.)

the arc 170 would stay the way it is no changes at all but it would become a clone quest like one of the mechanical arms quests in a bar... so eather side can do it

The eta-2 would not stay the way it is it would get a slight manuvering buff (yea yea i hear you all complaining already but read on!)

the reason the eta-2 would be ballanced even with a slight manuvering buff is because though anyone can get it despite faction you now would have to have the full fs branch of vehicle controle to be able to use it.

the idea behind this is to make the ships that are causeing people to do a whole day of grinding(sarcastic because its anoying and doesent take up enough time for the dev's to realy keep us subscribed)to get (the whole drop faction etc) and noone would ever have the right to ask for jedi specials in space because they got a slight buff

the only problem is all those jedi who get the fs branch in vehicle controle and fly there eta-2 are now going to get singled out and taken out first

basicly it would get rid of a fiew anoyances and make it so jedi though getting a slight (i mean like a very slight yaw pitch role increase on the eta-2) bonus they also fly a ship that people know means they are jedi and will probly shoot at them first.

arc 170 would just be some clones old ship

eta-2 becomes a ship that a villager found and salvaged

when you think about it it stops a lot of whining and makes those anoying jedi easyer to find

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In fact I say no to jedi in space period, perhaps some kind of force sensitive tribble could clog up their exhaust port or something.

Seriously if you want all to bow before your glow stick go wave it outside a starport not up in space.

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crashtestwolf wrote:

alright the post is not much to do with jedi... its a thought i had.

the eta-2 is a powerfull ship but as it is now you might as well get a bel-22 and the arc 170 is close to the same but it has a gunner...

why not make the eta-2 and the arc 170 non faction specific... (ok i know sounds wierd but read on.)

the arc 170 would stay the way it is no changes at all but it would become a clone quest like one of the mechanical arms quests in a bar... so eather side can do it

The eta-2 would not stay the way it is it would get a slight manuvering buff (yea yea i hear you all complaining already but read on!)

the reason the eta-2 would be ballanced even with a slight manuvering buff is because though anyone can get it despite faction you now would have to have the full fs branch of vehicle controle to be able to use it.

the idea behind this is to make the ships that are causeing people to do a whole day of grinding(sarcastic because its anoying and doesent take up enough time for the dev's to realy keep us subscribed)to get (the whole drop faction etc) and noone would ever have the right to ask for jedi specials in space because they got a slight buff

the only problem is all those jedi who get the fs branch in vehicle controle and fly there eta-2 are now going to get singled out and taken out first

basicly it would get rid of a fiew anoyances and make it so jedi though getting a slight (i mean like a very slight yaw pitch role increase on the eta-2) bonus they also fly a ship that people know means they are jedi and will probly shoot at them first.

arc 170 would just be some clones old ship

eta-2 becomes a ship that a villager found and salvaged

when you think about it it stops a lot of whining and makes those anoying jedi easyer to find

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In short...erm..NO.

Hm, with the risk of being flamed, my two cents...

I kinda like the idea to have some ships certified only to some ground profs... This is not related to stats, because as like many others, I would not want the Jedi to have benefits in space as well, but from a roleplaying point of view, giving the Jedi a JSF (I am NOT jedi, not wanna be one), smugglers a smuggle ship (like the YT-1300), BH a Bounty hunter ship (Firepsray), etc. etc.

I am not saying that for each prof a special ship should be implemented, but I do like the idea that certain special variants are only available to certain players. I know many people just play SWG because of space, so the ships available to "normal" aces should definitely be in balance with the specials... But it would increase variatity in space ships used, as long as ships are carefully balanced.

Or, having elite pilot profs (not based on ground content) with special ship certs, that could also be nice... As I read somewhere else a space only prof like pirate,commander, bomber, traderor whatever, could for me make space even more interesting...

Jedi should know by now where we think they can stick their glowbats. You want to be special in space? EARN IT. Learn to fly. Be the best pilot out there. But do it YOURSELF. This isn't the ground. You can take your "I'm a Jedi, I'm better than everyone else" attitude and stick it. Up here, you're nothing until you make yourself something. Can't get by without your "uber" Jedi powers? Sucks for you. Jedi aren't unwelcome here, but if you think for half a second that your ground profession means anything, you're dead wrong. This is our playground, and we don't need an "alpha class" out here. In space, no one can hear you whine.