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Thread: Devs, Don't even think it!
First, I want to qualify this by saying it's suspicion only that I base the following statement on. It is only my worst nightmare and I want to kill any thoughts about implementing it now.
DO NOT Drop smuggler from the ground game and make it JTLS's 5th profession.
DRWolfe wrote:
I don't believe this has been considered at all. In fact, as discussed in another thread, it seems from various posts and that recent interview that the only Smuggler-ly content in JTL is getting to fly a YT1300 "just like Han Solo" (and the Lady Luck like Lando, if you're old enough).
Anyone old enough is going to get the same model of ship as Lando's. Anyone with enough credits is probably going to be able to get a YT1300. So the Smuggler-ly content isn't even going to be limited to smugglers. So there ISN'T ANY smuggler-ly content in JTL.
Message Edited by WesBelden on 07-23-2004 08:12 AM
jbezorg wrote:
DRWolfe wrote:
I don't believe this has been considered at all. In fact, as discussed in another thread, it seems from various posts and that recent interview that the only Smuggler-ly content in JTL is getting to fly a YT1300 "just like Han Solo" (and the Lady Luck like Lando, if you're old enough).
Anyone old enough is going to get the same model of ship as Lando's. Anyone with enough credits is probably going to be able to get a YT1300. So the Smuggler-ly content isn't even going to be limited to smugglers. So there ISN'T ANY smuggler-ly content in JTL.
Yeah, I know, but in the interview, he made it sound like that was Smuggler-ly content...
"So I would tell him to definitely be excited about that and if he’s a Smuggler and has always dreamed of having his YT-1300 transport he’s going to have his opportunity to sort of recreate that whole Han Solo persona."
I threw in the Lady Luck part, but there ya go.
The problem with recreating "that whole Han Solo persona" thing is that it's not just the ship, the fact is that Han smuggled stuff, and we...
DRWolfe wrote:
Yeah, I know, but in the interview, he made it sound like that was Smuggler-ly content...
"So I would tell him to definitely be excited about that and if he’s a Smuggler and has always dreamed of having his YT-1300 transport he’s going to have his opportunity to sort of recreate that whole Han Solo persona."
I threw in the Lady Luck part, but there ya go.
The problem with recreating "that whole Han Solo persona" thing is that it's not just the ship, the fact is that Han smuggled stuff, and we...
I know it's all wishful hopes and dreams....
I do recall a quote or two in the past saying the Smuggler was added into the ground game late. Why? Because the main purpose of a smuggler was going to be in space, but they wanted to fit them into the ground game so players could have established smugglers by the time the space expansion came around. This makes it sound like they are going to have actual "smuggler content" with the space expansion.
I'd love if someone who is a quote-collecter could find that one and paste it here. I believe it was back under one of our first "revamp" discussions, where it was explained why the smuggler wasn't as 'fleshed-out' as people wanted them to be.
Of course, all of that could have changed during the development of JTLS, and nothing new was added for the smuggler in space.
WesBelden wrote:
agreed, there's no smuggler content in JtL. They've madea space shooter. It looks damn nice, but that's all it is.
We may get more added to it eventually.. maybe the Smuggler revamp will spur such things. Who knows.
Message Edited by WesBelden on 07-23-2004 08:12 AM
couldn't of said it better myself
WesBelden wrote:
agreed, there's no smuggler content in JtL. They've madea space shooter. It looks damn nice, but that's all it is.
We may get more added to it eventually.. maybe the Smuggler revamp will spur such things. Who knows.
Message Edited by WesBelden on 07-23-2004 08:12 AM
/sarcasm
The smuggler content in JTL will be fuzzy dice for all smugglers to hang in your ship. 
/sarcasm off
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MaxSteele wrote:
I do recall a quote or two in the past saying the Smuggler was added into the ground game late. Why? Because the main purpose of a smuggler was going to be in space, but they wanted to fit them into the ground game so players could have established smugglers by the time the space expansion came around. This makes it sound like they are going to have actual "smuggler content" with the space expansion.
We've been pouring suggestions into what seams like a black hole and all we have to go on is speculation and hints. That is the basis of my fear.
Why do a smuggler revamp if the plan is to move all the profession's content into JTL?. If it is true that the smuggler profession was added late only to have established smugglers when the space expansion comes out, is there a need to have the stopgap profession once the expansion is actually released? Removing the profession now would be highly unpopular, hence the silence? To prevent a mass exodus and defeat the purpose of adding the stopgap smuggler profession in the first place?
Wild speculation and the height of paranoia? Maybe, but there is a cure that the entire smuggler community has been asking for.
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MISTagent01 wrote:
DRWolfe wrote:
I don't believe this has been considered at all. In fact, as discussed in another thread, it seems from various posts and that recent interview that the only Smuggler-ly content in JTL is getting to fly a YT1300 "just like Han Solo" (and the Lady Luck like Lando, if you're old enough).
What's "con-tent" ??? I don't understand.
For that matter, what's a smugler? I have yet to see one
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