Shipwright Archive
Thread: Ok, I'm not a shipwright, but......
Jagged-F3l wrote:
Niven2k3 wrote:
Maybe they will be forced to do this.
I don't know how long the novelty of NPC combat in space will last without the promise of loot, events or missions.
Maybe the 'home in space' is the way to go.
Nice ideas.
"forced to do this"? "forced" is an interesting word. I don't think so. A great many veterns have left the game because combat and the GCW are fundamentally flawed. Yes, SOE is fixing these aspects of the game. However, they very well fell into the schedule that they dictated, and I often wonder whether SOE gave a damn if all that left did because these aspects of the game were broken for so long. Thus, if you expect the space aspect of the game to change dramatically anytime soon, I think you better brace yourself for a long wait.
Yeah I see your point but I was thinking of pressure.
JTL is SoE's baby.
It's the focus of attention right now and if it was to die on it's a$$ within a few months of release... well it wouldn't do much for thier rep 
However I do get the distinct feeling we will all be retired within 6 months 
sbob wrote:
Keeping clutter down might be nice but your post also gave me an intresting idea as well. Have a ship/factory that you can take up and use to run off your factory runs that peopel are wanting. Though will be like the vet ship and take lots and only runs when you are there in it so you want a factory take the ship up in oribut and run off the stuff you want. Maybe have it be your own repair bardge where you can fly around and actualy offer repair services in space to people. Could be intresting middle ground and a bit of fun.
How about if, while doing factory runs in your ship, you are overt? After all, you are clearly manufacturing ships for a faction, that sounds like overt activity to me. Since the a factory ship would be weak as a kitten, and would probably have to be up there for awhile (at least 2-3 min per chassis), you would need an escort. Naturally the escort would also have to declare in order to be of any assistance.
Each faction would need to have it’s own factory ship, and the certification would have to be in the pilot tree of each faction, not the SW tree. This is would limit factory runs to your own factional ships,which is neccesarysince you are overt for that faction while using them.
I have always been anti-factory, but this could work, it seriously limits factory use, and could bring a lot of content to space.