Pilot Archive

Sounds like a very good idea to me. Of course, since the opps officer isnt doing the flying, you wouldnt want it to be just a static forward pointing one. Which equates to a forward mounted turret... which sorta negates the point of being the co*pilot* and lessens the importance of the other guns, not to mention being very un-cannon.

A more workable alternatave would be to give the opps officer control over the missile launcher. (Though, if there is no opps officer, they should default to the pilot.) Allow the opps officer or the mechanic to reload missiles in-flight, and give the opps officer the ability to aim his reticle in a 30 degree or so cone in front of the ship and aquire missile locksindependantly from the pilots movements, allowing the pilot to stick to piloting. This would give the oppsofficer and the greasemonkeysomething to do, something I think would be very beneficial to PoBs.

This subject is posted roughly every 3 weeks, lots of us don't bother to respond anymore. It's a multiplayer ship, lets keep it multiplayer, especially with the new POB components.

Yeah, this has been brought up many times before. AndI still think POB ships need a forward-firing weapon mount that the pilot can fire. They really do need one... I think, anyway...

There is one...it's called the Y-8 mining vessel.

As for your ops ideas...yeah...they've been mentioned before..somewhere.
But I wouldn't hold my breath on any discussion and/or improvements for a while.
Everyone is to busy strapping on their crash helmets to see how hard we will hit the ground when the changes happen in a couple of weeks.

Message Edited by Slysix on 11-04-2005 04:15 AM

Everyone is entitled to his/her opinion. I have no issues with agreeing to disagree