Pilot Archive

Personally I like the idea of Faction Pets in space....

BUT..... (Please hear me out before dismissing the idea)

I feel that which Faction pet/Crew Member you have available should be controlled by Rank and Faction.

this should be only available to "Master Pilots" AND dependent upon Rank in the Faction.

The different Faction Crew could be made available at different Rank levels

if my Rank list is incorrect in any way please understand that I used what I found in some post on RANKINGS, and the idea is that the HIGHEST Ranks only would have these Crew Members.

RANK Space Faction Pet/Crew

Private: 200
Lance Corporal: 400
Corporal: 800
Sergeant: 1200
Staff Sergeant: 1600
Staff Corporal: 2000
Warrant Officer II: 2500
Master Sergeant: 3000
Warrant Officer I: 3500
Second Lieutenant: 4000
Lieutenant: 5000
Captain: 5000---------------------------Repair Droid (Needs Repair Kits to fix things)
Major: 5500------------------------------Operations Officer (Co-Pilot)
Lieutenant Colonel: 5500-------------Gunner #1
Colonel: 6000----------------------------Gunner #2

Let me make a couple of comments/observations;

1.The Repair Droid would be able to handle MINOR Repairs (to keep you running until a Crew Member can resolve the Problem).

2.The Operations Officer/Co-Pilot would allow the Pilot to have his Pilot Commands and Droid Commands relayed, thus allowing the Pilot to issue the commands from the Pilot's Chair.

3.All either gunner actually does is hold the guns locked into the forward firing position and allow your Pilot's Trigger(s) to control the Firing (like on a Single Player Ship-not like a turret).

4.The Faction Crew Member can be killed when the ship is destroyed, thus needing to acquire a new Crew Member from the Faction Recruiter.

Please note that NONE of the Faction Crew Positions/Abilities are overpowered.

I would prefer to run with a full crew of Live Friends.... But there are times when my friends are unavailable. This would allow the ships to be ran by a skeleton crew, A live Crew would have many more options and abilities and thus would be the prefered way to fly.

I also want to state that while I like these Ideas, they should be addressed AFTER the other KNOWN BUG's related to Multiplayer Ships have been resolved.

If any of these Ideas would unballance the game then I would say that they should not be implemented, I just don't think that the ideas I have expressed would be unballancing in any way.

Thank you for your indulgence, and your patience.

Dym Mok..