Pilot Archive
Thread: Petition: additional original POB weapon port
/disagree
Even Han Solo couldn't use his YT solo. He needed his first mate, Chewie, and he and Luke each manning a gun.
If you make YT single-person flyable, it would also unbalance space totally. You'd see 200 YTs out there.
No thanks.
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PS. The Y-8 is useless without gunners, and, according to many privateers, so is the Krayt.
Message Edited by ShinyJedi on 06-07-2005 10:23 AM
The weapons on the Falcon could be set up to fire in the forward arc from the cockpit. There were no gunners in the Empire Strikes back, yet it was able to fire. With a single pilot, simply allow the pilot to set the turrets to a mode which allows forward only fire when unmanned.
For nothing more than practicality's sake, some limited solo function should be allowed. Repairs and droid commands would still require someone else, but basic ship function shouldn't be impaired.
I guess my point is to make them comprable to the Y-8. Not necessarily a solo ship, but take advantage of the bigger ship with more hardpoints.
I agree that a crew would be need to be optimized and even if a 3rd pilot weapon hardpoint was added we wouldn't see 200 YT-1300s out there. They need a crew to be effective and take advantage of being able to repair while in space. Adding the 3rd slot just keeps the original POB on par with the new Y-8. Unless the Y-8 is supposed to be a more effective ship than any of the original POB ships.
You sure about that in Empire Strikes Back? In many instances, Chewie was piloting and Han was gunning.
I <3 Chewie.
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ShinyJedi wrote:
/disagree
Even Han Solo couldn't use his YT solo. He needed his first mate, Chewie, and he and Luke each manning a gun.
If you make YT single-person flyable, it would also unbalance space totally. You'd see 200 YTs out there.
No thanks.
N
PS. The Y-8 is useless without gunners, and, according to many privateers, so is the Krayt.
Message Edited by ShinyJedi on 06-07-200510:23 AM
ShinyJedi wrote:
/disagree
Even Han Solo couldn't use his YT solo. He needed his first mate, Chewie, and he and Luke each manning a gun.
If you make YT single-person flyable, it would also unbalance space totally. You'd see 200 YTs out there.
No thanks.
N
I agree. The PoB ships are supposed to be group ships. They aren't supposed to be single player ships.PS. The Y-8 is useless without gunners, and, according to many privateers, so is the Krayt.
Message Edited by ShinyJedi on 06-07-2005 10:23 AM
The Y-8 is worthless in general.
The krayte is worthless to those that can't fly.
I love my krayte and I can out fly a lot of other people in there lighter fighters. I can always tell teh new A wing pilots in Deep Space. They keep coming back to try and kill me and I keep stop killing the NPCs to make more palyer A wing scrap.
I would like to see 2 more gun ports. One more on each turret and another capacitor would be great but if you have a good capacitor overloaded you won't need another capacitor. Realy a waste that my level 10 Cap has so much energy and a recharge of 55 and it only fits in my YT wel... But my level 4 with 1k energy, a 40 recharge and mass under 5k goes in the krayte. Lets me have the big guns....
I'd rather see multiple weapons on the current turret mounts.
I mean these are 4 barrel turbo lasers right?
Why do they only fire a single blast as weak as a fighter?
That said my PoB's sit and rot in the hanger.
A) My fighters can equip weapons just as good.
B) I have yet to find a shield that tops my current fighter shield, PoB only or otherwise.
C) My fighters bring more overall firepower to bear than any of the PoB's can.
D) My fighters don't require a bunch of people along for the ride, and don't risk 5 or so deaths if it comes to that.
Basically the ONLY advantage my PoB's have over my fighters is armor.
Sylia wrote:
Basically the ONLY advantage my PoB's have over my fighters is armor.
ajag wrote:
The pilot of the millenium falcon could shoot a forward mounted gun as seen in the return of the jedi when it was used to destroy the death star.
Washell wrote:
ajag wrote:
The pilot of the millenium falcon could shoot a forward mounted gun as seen in the return of the jedi when it was used to destroy the death star.
According to a debate we had some weeks ago, those were concussion missiles. This argument was backed by close examinations of the movie showing the shots came from the location of the missile tubes. It's still generally agreed upon that the falcons turrets can be set toa forward fire mode. But we don't fly the heavily modified falcon, we fly the YT-1300.
My standpoint is very simple, they are multiplayer ships, so they require multiple players to fly. If you want to solo in it, go rebel, load up some missile tubes and use the in-space replenishment pilot ability to reload.
mskroch wrote:
I guess my point is to make them comprable to the Y-8. Not necessarily a solo ship, but take advantage of the bigger ship with more hardpoints.
I agree that a crew would be need to be optimized and even if a 3rd pilot weapon hardpoint was added we wouldn't see 200 YT-1300s out there. They need a crew to be effective and take advantage of being able to repair while in space. Adding the 3rd slot just keeps the original POB on par with the new Y-8. Unless the Y-8 is supposed to be a more effective ship than any of the original POB ships.