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Thread: Wow, many more ships for ROTW
Orcajum
Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:10 pm
#40
Fernas wrote:i thought Grievous is supposed to be a bad arse. why is he flying such a butt ugly ship?
Same reason a vending machine has no sense of aesthetics.
Orcajum
Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:20 pm
#41
NickHeel wrote:
Zeon_Zaku wrote:
Where did you see the information on the V-Wing? I don't see it anywhere on the Gamespot page...The information for the V-Wing came from a Star Wars starship information site. It really does exist in a top secret form late in RotJ and after that I think. I could be wrong since the only time I've seen it is in the Rogue Squadron video game. But I believe it came during/after RotJ while fighting the Imperial remnant or something. Dreven would know.
And I didn't typo the B into a V. That's how it is on the site, as a V-Wing.
If i remember correctly, the V-wing didn't come into Aliance service until shortly after Thrawn, during that whole reborn-Emperor story. But it's not really a spacecraft. It's an atmospheric attack craft similar to the Snowspeeders though not specialized for cold environments. X-Wings, Y-Wings, etc, are designed to space battles, not for atmospheric flight, so they suffer aerodynamically. The V-Wing, supposidly, doesn't suffer the same air resistence and gravity effects the space-based fighters do, and is thus more maneuverable in atmosphere.
TomoRainer
Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:31 pm
#42
I'll tell you this, the first thing I thought when I saw these ships wasn't how cool the Royal Guard Interceptor looks, or how rough the ARC 170 could end up being to face, but one thing and one thing alone:
$$$!!!!!!
$$$!!!!!!
Message Edited by TomoRainer on 03-25-2005 12:31 AM
JTGAlpha
Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:55 pm
#43
Yes but the YT was still a popular model in those times for its extreme versatility.
DarthKthuolhu
Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:59 pm
#44
The main SOE SWG Site says that there is a Pic of the Mining Ship in the Gamespot Article... but clicking the link on the SOE SWG page goes to the same article linked to in the original post that started this thread.
So I got curious.
I looked at the page instead of the pictures of the ships.
In the upper right corner of the page is a seperate picture under what is listed as Screen Shots; which is also a link to a seperate page. So I clicked it. It brought up two more pages of pictures.
Now the first page has all the pictures we can see in the original link at the beginning of this post. It also has a few others that are not in that link.
The second page has two pictures that are not in that link; as well as all the original screen shts from when the Expansion was first announced.
But what caught my attention was one of the two ship pictures on that page.
This Picture -- Is that a hint at the Space Mining?
Ok I know they have talked about the Mining Ship as though it were something we haven't seen yet... but could this pic possibly be a hint that the Space Mining might be something we can do with our own ships with perhaps some special weapon mounted?
Oh and also that pic has a great shot of the Grievous from a different angle.
So I got curious.
I looked at the page instead of the pictures of the ships.
In the upper right corner of the page is a seperate picture under what is listed as Screen Shots; which is also a link to a seperate page. So I clicked it. It brought up two more pages of pictures.
Now the first page has all the pictures we can see in the original link at the beginning of this post. It also has a few others that are not in that link.
The second page has two pictures that are not in that link; as well as all the original screen shts from when the Expansion was first announced.
But what caught my attention was one of the two ship pictures on that page.
This Picture -- Is that a hint at the Space Mining?
Ok I know they have talked about the Mining Ship as though it were something we haven't seen yet... but could this pic possibly be a hint that the Space Mining might be something we can do with our own ships with perhaps some special weapon mounted?
Oh and also that pic has a great shot of the Grievous from a different angle.
Message Edited by DarthKthuolhu on 03-25-2005 05:03 PM
JTGAlpha
Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:14 pm
#45
They don't LOOK like mining vessels to me....more like Palpatine's shuttle in the Prequels.
DarthKthuolhu
Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:24 pm
#46
JTGAlpha wrote:They don't LOOK like mining vessels to me....more like Palpatine's shuttle in the Prequels.
Yes you're correct; the ships in the picture do not look like Mining Vessels.
Three of them are the new Jedi Fighter, and the larger one is the Grievous.
But what caught my attention, was the Asteroid that appears to be blowing up, as though some ships had been hitting it with a powerful weapon.. note the chunks being blasted off... and the four ships flying towards it, and not away from it.
So again, perhaps there is a little untruth here? Perhaps there is no real Mining Ship; perhaps the Mining is something we will be able to do with our own ships?
maxtheusher
Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:47 pm
#47
DarthKthuolhu wrote:
JTGAlpha wrote:They don't LOOK like mining vessels to me....more like Palpatine's shuttle in the Prequels.
Yes you're correct; the ships in the picture do not look like Mining Vessels.
Three of them are the new Jedi Fighter, and the larger one is the Grievous.
But what caught my attention, was the Asteroid that appears to be blowing up, as though some ships had been hitting it with a powerful weapon.. note the chunks being blasted off... and the four ships flying towards it, and not away from it.
So again, perhaps there is a little untruth here? Perhaps there is no real Mining Ship; perhaps the Mining is something we will be able to do with our own ships?
They've said from the beginning that mining is something you outfit your normal ship to do... No secret there.
There IS going to be a special mining ship, for skilled miners to earn, and it will be a 20 passenger POB ship
maxtheusher
Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:54 pm
#49
Perhaps it's an existing large ship, like the cargo transport, or passenger transport, as shown here.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/starwarsgalaxiesrageofthewookiees/screens_6120946.html?page=1
Or perhaps it's this tiny little speck that's probably a space station, as shown here.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/starwarsgalaxiesrageofthewookiees/screens_6120946.html?page=3
Or maybe the people running SOE's site just done f*cked up.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/starwarsgalaxiesrageofthewookiees/screens_6120946.html?page=1
Or perhaps it's this tiny little speck that's probably a space station, as shown here.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/starwarsgalaxiesrageofthewookiees/screens_6120946.html?page=3
Or maybe the people running SOE's site just done f*cked up.
DarthKthuolhu
Fri Mar 25, 2005 4:02 pm
#50
maxtheusher wrote:
DarthKthuolhu wrote:
JTGAlpha wrote:They don't LOOK like mining vessels to me....more like Palpatine's shuttle in the Prequels.
Yes you're correct; the ships in the picture do not look like Mining Vessels.
Three of them are the new Jedi Fighter, and the larger one is the Grievous.
But what caught my attention, was the Asteroid that appears to be blowing up, as though some ships had been hitting it with a powerful weapon.. note the chunks being blasted off... and the four ships flying towards it, and not away from it.
So again, perhaps there is a little untruth here? Perhaps there is no real Mining Ship; perhaps the Mining is something we will be able to do with our own ships?
They've said from the beginning that mining is something you outfit your normal ship to do... No secret there.
There IS going to be a special mining ship, for skilled miners to earn, and it will be a 20 passenger POB ship
Hmmm.. interesting, I'v never seen them say that about existing ships. The only thing I have ever seen them talk about in regards to the Mining is that there will be a special ship to do it; but never seen it mentioned by them that it would infact be something we can do in our normal ships.
But if they say we can; and that Pic seems to confim it.. then awesome.
JediArashi
Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:37 pm
#51
Yeah it was mentioned that Shipwrights will be able to craft a special componant that allows your existing vessel to mine in space.
I would hope that fighter craft can't be equipped that way, or if they can their capacity is so low that no one will use it. It would be ridiculous if an X-Wing can haul as much ore as a YT.
gassygunslinger
Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:02 pm
#52
Bwahahaha! I am smarter than all of you!!! Apparently, We have seen the new mining ships. If you read on the news of http://www.starwarsgalaxies.comat the top, with the clickie to the article, you will read this
Gamespot Previews EPIII: Rage of the Wookiees
Check out the latest screenshots from the EPIII: Rage of the Wookiees expansion, revealing new spaceships and exciting new spaceship modifications for existing spaceships. You can even get a look at the new mining ship, the Jedi fighter and Grievous' Fighter. Click here to read the full article.
This means, that it is pictured in one of the pictures, or, the grievous' fighter and the jedi fighters ARE the new mining vessles.But, it's always possible that those specs of ships we see in the backgroundare what they call "mining ships".Or they could have just f%cked up... Your call...I caught this when I clicked on the link, disapointed that it didn't go out and say what the new ships are (clearly labling it as a mining ship).