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Thread: Since RotW has JTL, Smugglers should smuggle people past the Kashyyyk blockade
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RogueCloudwalker
Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:24 pm
#1
I also posted this on the GCW boards but I think Smugglers especially should look at this. Since RotW has JTL, everyone who can go to Kashyyyk has space travel abilities. Therefore, insta-travel via starport should be disabled for Kashyyyk. It would require pilots to manually go up into space and fly past the Imperial blockade to land on the planet. I think Smugglers should be approached like Han and Chewie to go to Alderaan...er Kashyyyk! What do you all say? We would all finally have a use for JTL as more than a paperweight if we had to actually go to space for something! It would be very Star Warsy indeed!
Rissen
Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:28 pm
#2
I agree totally. Endor should have been a similar situation. I think they should require a smuggler to get to these planets. Similarly I thought that they should require rangers to reach certain areas on each planet and have renewable content in those areas. Meaning that things like special creatures, npcs, ruins, etc. with possibilities for loot but no guarantee.
I am no ranger I just think every profession should be used by the player base to access high end portions of the game or to support there continued adventuring(ala the healing/support classes)
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01201986
Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:01 pm
#3
I like the idea, and am for changes that make us a need to the player base besides just slicing or faction. tho I'm not sure kashyyyk is accessible only if you have jtl. as I understood it, someone who does not have jtl could still purchase ROTW over the internet and download it. and also I'm sure ROTW will be sold as a seperate piece in the stores too, so that people who already have the game can buy the expansion from a store if they so choose.
Datink_Nieleft
Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:06 pm
#4
Rissen wrote:
I agree totally. Endor should have been a similar situation. I think they should require a smuggler to get to these planets. Similarly I thought that they should require rangers to reach certain areas on each planet and have renewable content in those areas. Meaning that things like special creatures, npcs, ruins, etc. with possibilities for loot but no guarantee.
I am no ranger I just think every profession should be used by the player base to access high end portions of the game or to support there continued adventuring(ala the healing/support classes)
It is a good idea, but from a marketing standpoint (and we all know thats exactly what drives this and any other game) what happens when player A cannot find a Smuggler to get him to the planet he bought an expansion for? He doesn't go,..he gets upset and he quits. This is exactly why it would never be implemented. Maybe a cargo restricition or a "blockade" of certian items in and out of the planet requiring a Smuggler (such as certain weapons, meds, etc) would be a better option.
RogueCloudwalker
Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:11 pm
#5
He can always fly a ship himself. I just thought that we could encourage Smugglers to use their Yacht or YT-1300 to move recalcitrant folks who don't want to fly themselves. 
Blackjack2062
Mon Mar 14, 2005 3:16 pm
#6
Yavin should be blockaded as well. Vader initiatted a blockade of this world soon after the battle of Yavin, and kept it that way until the Executor was completed.
Zeon_Zaku
Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:54 pm
#7
Sounds like a good idea to me. 
I've always wanted to be able to smuggle people from place-to-place. Something not as easy as simply grouping with a Smuggler then hitting "travel" on the starship terminal. You should have to group with the Smuggler and launch into space, then hyperspace to the planet and land. It would even be neat if there were random attacks, kind of like mission NPCs, that would make it feel like someone doesn't want you getting to the planet. These attacks shouldn't happen every time, of course, but every now and then.
This would also give ships a bigger part in being a Smuggler. Which the proposed revamp is lacking.
This would also give ships a bigger part in being a Smuggler. Which the proposed revamp is lacking.
Message Edited by Zeon_Zaku on 03-14-2005 03:55 PM
SpinningCloud
Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:32 pm
#8
Can't prevent players from going there without a Smuggler...that just won't work from their marketing perspective. Also, if I could as a player go there in my own ship, why would I want to hunt around for a smuggler?
Best idea for these planets is to have special resources that HAVE to be smuggled out. And maybe certain types of armament that has to be smuggled in.
Crash752
Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:58 pm
#9
In EUKashyyyk is a slave planet, controlled by the Empire and maintained by Trandoshan slavers, where the Wookiee population is creating more and more of an uprising... a perfect planet for the Rebellion to liberate. Because of all these circumstances the Empire has an ever whatchfull eye on this planet. In Rebel Dawn book 3 in the Han Solo trilogy, Han and Chewie aboard the Millennium Falcon smuggle supplies onto the planet, using stolen codes, past the Imperial blockades.
I think that it be a a great addition to SWG and the star wars feel, if to get to the planet you had to be smuggled.The only ones who should have "legal" access to the planet are Imperials and Trandoshans. Everyone else should have to be smuggled in.
tralita_tusnami
Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:30 pm
#10
I have a smaller thought than this, you know how players can get baned from PC CITIES, well we should be able to "smuggle them in" but grouping with them. or if were a smuggler we should be able to go anywhere we want if banned. just a thought
Kells
Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:42 pm
#11
For that matter how is Dathomir not a blockaded planet? The Emperor himself gave the order, no one gets on or off that planet without express written consent. 
Glzmo
Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:08 pm
#12
RogueCloudwalker wrote:
I also posted this on the GCW boards but I think Smugglers especially should look at this. Since RotW has JTL, everyone who can go to Kashyyyk has space travel abilities. Therefore, insta-travel via starport should be disabled for Kashyyyk. It would require pilots to manually go up into space and fly past the Imperial blockade to land on the planet. I think Smugglers should be approached like Han and Chewie to go to Alderaan...er Kashyyyk! What do you all say? We would all finally have a use for JTL as more than a paperweight if we had to actually go to space for something! It would be very Star Warsy indeed!
Wonderful idea, it would highly increase immersion.
By the way, it would be nice if only Wookiees could build houses on Kashyyyk (of course, Kashyyyk style housing).
Zeon_Zaku
Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:25 pm
#13
tralita_tusnami wrote:
I have a smaller thought than this, you know how players can get baned from PC CITIES, well we should be able to "smuggle them in" but grouping with them. or if were a smuggler we should be able to go anywhere we want if banned. just a thought
I don't think we should be able to smuggle banned players in a player city. Some people have been banned for a good reason, and letting them simply waltz right into the city would cause more harm then good.
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