Pilot Archive

Think about the Y-8 for a moment, for all intents and purposes, its a pocket capital ship. Its utterly and completely monstrous in size and scope compared to standard craftables, and its only attainable by a quest.

Given that the true capital ships that are in the pipeline are going to make this one seemlike a baby, I'm thinking we're never going to see more than one made available to any player in the course of his life. Like the Y-8, you get one, you take bloody good care of it or you lose it forever.

This saves a discussion I've seen elsewhere about the untold millions of resources that would be needed to craft them. If they are of quest attained status, you only need to create new and more manageable capital shipcomponents to put on them to create a reasonable market for Shipwrights to supply and sustain them.

What I see happening with these monsters is that there will either be some level of automation about them, like GCW turrets, with a player controlled override, or you will simply need a guild-level crew to operate them. I'm thinking a Captain, Operations, one Gunner per turret and a full repair crew.

This is going to create some issues, as currently with the admin permissions bugged and useless, you can only have turret gunners and Ops officers be people in your group, which critically limits fighter escorts, but I'm hopeful something can be done to accomodate this in the future.

Janu Hull
CertifiedjWing Nut
CFA
"This is not the ground game, please see a therapist for your outrage."

They'll be PvE powerhouses, which will hit DS for repairs like everyone else.

Janu Hull
CertifiedjWing Nut
CFA
"This is not the ground game, please see a therapist for your outrage."