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Thread: Why can't rangers have weapons
Shobi-T
Sat Dec 18, 2004 3:58 pm
#29
ye true they use all sorts on us, but i didn't want to like say i want to completey change ranger and make it a combat skill, i was just thinking if ranger had its own unique weapon what looks cool and well makes ranger more enjoyable, at the moment now i have mastered it, there is nothing ever to do except go get harvest, i was going to go try and find a gorax though lol sounds like fun, (o its nearly 11 o clock here).
e6alfa
Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:00 pm
#30
You've got a great idea. There should be something that allows a ranger to "stand out in a crowd".
Shobi-T
Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:08 pm
#31
i thought getting hooked on swg was bad and this is my first day on the forums and i am totally hooked, i know this is going off the subject of weapons, but i was abit disappointed with frontier i mean all the work we all did (and c'mon frontier was the hardest one) and we just get a camp wat very slowley heals ur wounds and has got a 2 crafting stations in it, i wish we cud find new schems to have different camps, like ones what had different uses, to me now that camp is just a more decorated version of feild base, please again give ur thoughts
Landorien
Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:35 pm
#33
Huntseeker wrote:
Also an other question for you have u ever tried archery, I've had a shot at both archery targets and rifle firing, rifles are heavey compaired to the bow and arrow and personely i find it more clunky than a bow and arrow, but then when u compaire the skill, unless your use to the power of the gun the recoil and knock you off your feet (i have a friend who has an winchester and we shoot partiges with it) where the bow and arrow makes it a more smoother action with just as deadly effects.
That might be true if all the riflemen ran around with winchesters, or the early stage tusken kinetic rifles, but we don't.
Energy weapons I doubt would have much recoil to speak of, and if it does, the arrows saddependency on windstrength and such should make up for it. Imagine trying to fire a bow in a lokian sandstorm..
The wookiee bowcaster is a relatively primitive weapon, as all weapons wielded by those semisavages, and what is that if not a technified bow? well, a technically atechnified(is that evena word?) crossbow..
Let's just pretend bowstrings and feathered arrows is better suited for some other galaxy far far away.
Owen-Lars
Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:05 am
#34
A bow would work, not sure what melee orientated rangers feel about it though being a ranged fighter myself.
Huntseeker
Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:25 am
#35
Owen-Lars wrote:A bow would work, not sure what melee orientated rangers feel about it though being a ranged fighter myself.
To think about it it would work both ways, as in reality a bow is a mellee weapon of sorts as well as being ranged, the haft of the bow could be used similarly as a melee weapon in close combat, (similar to polearms), the arrows used as a WEAK fencing weapon (most bows & arrows these daysin RL use some form of composite material in their construction though the adv ment of the type of bow (ie short bow -long, hunting bow - combat/competition styled bows etc, same with the designs of the arrows and arrow heads)
Message Edited by Huntseeker on 12-18-2004 08:30 PM
Huntseeker
Sun Dec 19, 2004 4:43 am
#36
I know this will proably sound daft to many but what if wookie bowcasters where not only able to be used by wookees, but by rangers as well????? Apparently so i'm told it's not an uber weapon for the wookies. Does anyone have a beserka weapon which actualy works?
JBMat
Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:08 am
#37
Rifles - No. Not all Rangers are riflemen, nor do they want to be. Plus the riflemen non-rangers would scream holy murder. And keep in mind, the CURB is going to change all weapons anyhow - so rumor says.
Granted the bow is a ranged weapon, but again, it intrudes on no other class. Even drop the ranges to keep people happy. Not many people shoot long range bow shots. Owen's idea of varying arrows is great, others have posted the same type of ideas. Give us one offensive arrow (bleed) and make the rest defensive/state arrows, like our traps.
Ghillie suit - WILL NOT MAKE US INVISIBLE IN PVP. Let me say that again - NO INVISIBILITY IN PVP. For the really smart, no invisiibility due to the use of packet sniffers and promoting their use as in other games. Otherwise, a Ghillie would be like a super /conceal. Planet specific - pretty dumb wearing an Endor suit on Tatooine.
Guys, if you do a search for the topics, we have posted all these before. Hell, I posted about Ghillie suits way back in 2003.
JB
Huntseeker
Sun Dec 19, 2004 8:19 am
#38
The idea i had for the ghillie suit was that yes it is planet specific, but rather than buying one suit per planet one basic suit (no camo applied), the camo for the ghillie had to be applied on planet not through resources (or maybe through foraging od some form) but something like the forage action could be used to apply the ghilli, otherwise it would be useless (i agree on the rifles as well, all other classes would b***h and moan about it (pardon my french))
Message Edited by Huntseeker on 12-19-2004 03:20 PM
Ok i read in another post which JB had poseted and it got me thinking (yes a rare thing indeed) to prevent uses of 3rd parties for detecting visable rangers (rember it would still show your prescence on the radar), perhaps some attachments to driods, or skill from CM's could be used to (sniff out/detect) cammoed, rangers or if someone was wearing a pair of body heat goggles (I still need a pair of goggles where can i get some 
) then basicly that persons changces of staying hidden are dropped dramaticly.
Message Edited by Huntseeker on 12-19-2004 04:24 PM
Huntseeker
Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:04 am
#39
I'm going to take a wild guess and presum thats you gym 
Any way back to topic ideas for the bow (progressing through the traps tree):
Bow type:
Arrow heads:
Any way back to topic ideas for the bow (progressing through the traps tree):
Bow type:
- Short bow
- Standard Bow
- Composite bow
Mounted bow (accuracy increase on mounts) - Hunter bow
- (master ranger bow/Quest item/legendary?) Kyudo Japanese Bow (just using this as an example)
Arrow heads:
- standard peircing arrow head
- Serreated head (causes bleeding?)
- Posioned Arrow head (slows prey down damages one of the A/M?)
- Tranquisler head (stronger effect than the posioned head (slows doen prey/dizzy) though no damage to HAM)
- Fire head (causes intimidation and some (not alot other wise it's a dot) mind fire damage?)
- grenade head (heaveyer head, less range, but can either contain explosives, sonic pulse, flash bang, tangle nets etc)
- Rotten meat head (causes carn agro animals to attack the animal which smells of rotten meat)