Smuggler Archive
Thread: Starport Checkpoint Ideas
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Hetnikik
Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:14 pm
#1
OK i've have been thinking about this suposed choke point they keep talking about. They all say it would cause a huge amount og lag if it was the star ports. Don't they already have gaurds around them? couldn't they just have them do scans farly offten and just stop one person at a time to scan them. This would also make it realativly easy to sneak by them while someone else was getting scaned. Just my twocents worth. Anyone that wants to exapand may and should expand on this.
Rogue135
Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:16 pm
#2
I'd be happy if they'd just step up the scan frequency... I think I've been scanneda grand total of 15 times, usually by the Naboo RSF, not Stormtroopers.
Hetnikik
Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:18 pm
#3
Really 15 timesdang I've goten scaned maybe 3 time and that was right when that first came out
Rogue135
Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:19 pm
#4
Hetnikik wrote:
Really 15 timesdang I've goten scaned maybe 3 time and that was right when that first came out
Honestly, I sometimes try to get scanned just to have something to do
Iawo
Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:18 pm
#5
I've never been scanned by local security forces, and only twice by the rebels. Those two times the rebels scanned me, they let me go because of my rank. Imperials will try to scan me every now and then, but they never live long enough to fine me.
Iawo
Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:19 pm
#6
Rogue135 wrote:
Hetnikik wrote:
Really 15 timesdang I've goten scaned maybe 3 time and that was right when that first came out
Honestly, I sometimes try to get scanned just to have something to do
LOL, I do that too sometimes. Yelling at a stormtrooper to scan me on rare occasions when I'm not combatant, but it never seems to work. Eventually I end up slapping them and get the insta-incap.
Aendracon
Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:38 am
#7
I have been scanned a couple of times, by both factions and some police forces as well. Most of the time, I was wearing a fully slicedsuit of composite armor and sporting a sliced gun.They never EVER bothered me about it, nor about being a rebel (on leave - granted). So did I use my fabulous Underworld abilities to avoid the scan? I doubt it. My alt is a non-Smuggler and he never got caught either.
Did anyone here ever got actually caught?
KloudRunner
Fri Sep 30, 2005 4:11 am
#8
Ok why not during smuggling missions or even normal game time when you land at a starport you get an instanced part of the port itself with your ship sitting nice and quitley and you can get up out of the pilots chair walk to the access ramp, open it and walk down into the port area. From that point there could be a percentage of a scanning crew showing up with some guards. If you pass then you can go on your way and exit your instanced port area and enter the main starport terminal. If you get caught you could attack the guards, make a run for it or pay a fine / bribe.
I still dont get why SOE cant make more use of instanced zones for occassions like this. If its system limitations then BY GOD sort it out. If WoW can do instanced areas SWG should be able to. rant off - idea brain closed - seeking beer
Laraxa
Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:13 am
#9
My idea for the smuggling revamp would me. you get mission, you go to such and such to pickup the item to smuggle. Now because the person your supposed to deliver it to, is a big crime boss you don't where he is. So you have to go on a series of checkpoints and talk to people along the way. Some will offer to buy your stuff, leaving you open to piss off the big guy, and get a BH after you. They would offer slicing tools, or credits in xchange for some or all of the loot. The choice would be yours to take the deal and risk it or not. After going to several check points, you finally get to deliver it to the big boss henchman, or for master smugglers only the Big boss himself. The Check points should take you all over the galaxies. The reason could be to throw off imperal who could be tracking you. Could start on Tat, then to Yarvin...and so on. and maybe even end up back on Tat. Some of these checkpoints should be space stations. Requiring you to launch and FLY (should be optional for those who have JTL, and better paying!) You hail the space station, and if your on a active mission, an option pops up to "speak to so and so" and he gives you your next check point.
All this running around would be logical for a smuggler especially a new smuggler who they ahve to check out and make sure he (or she) is legit and trust worth scoundrel. In the mean time, Imperal's would be scannign you, and you would have to either pay off ot talk your way out of it. Ship scannign should be regular. I WANT TO talk my way through an imperal block cade!!
There should be a way to make fake ideas. Assemble different loot items and you can generate a fake idea good for x number of uses. More skill the longer it lasts. would keep it interesting. (kinda like the picture printer or viewscreen printer works)
Alas this is only my dream..and will never happen
Laraxa
Ellyria
Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:19 am
#10
Aendracon wrote:
I have been scanned a couple of times, by both factions and some police forces as well. Most of the time, I was wearing a fully slicedsuit of composite armor and sporting a sliced gun.They never EVER bothered me about it, nor about being a rebel (on leave - granted). So did I use my fabulous Underworld abilities to avoid the scan? I doubt it. My alt is a non-Smuggler and he never got caught either.
Did anyone here ever got actually caught?
I got caught on my non smug toon with pixie pre cu and got fined about 400 creds.
megacrafter
Fri Sep 30, 2005 10:38 pm
#11
i got scaned by a rebel while a rebel combant it was funny thought nothign happened lol it's the 1st tiem i'v ever been scaned by a rebel and i'v never been caught even on my non smugler toon
Hetnikik
Fri Sep 30, 2005 11:26 pm
#12
Laraxa wrote:
My idea for the smuggling revamp would me. you get mission, you go to such and such to pickup the item to smuggle. Now because the person your supposed to deliver it to, is a big crime boss you don't where he is. So you have to go on a series of checkpoints and talk to people along the way. Some will offer to buy your stuff, leaving you open to piss off the big guy, and get a BH after you. They would offer slicing tools, or credits in xchange for some or all of the loot. The choice would be yours to take the deal and risk it or not. After going to several check points, you finally get to deliver it to the big boss henchman, or for master smugglers only the Big boss himself. The Check points should take you all over the galaxies. The reason could be to throw off imperal who could be tracking you. Could start on Tat, then to Yarvin...and so on. and maybe even end up back on Tat. Some of these checkpoints should be space stations. Requiring you to launch and FLY (should be optional for those who have JTL, and better paying!) You hail the space station, and if your on a active mission, an option pops up to "speak to so and so" and he gives you your next check point.
All this running around would be logical for a smuggler especially a new smuggler who they ahve to check out and make sure he (or she) is legit and trust worth scoundrel. In the mean time, Imperal's would be scannign you, and you would have to either pay off ot talk your way out of it. Ship scannign should be regular. I WANT TO talk my way through an imperal block cade!!
There should be a way to make fake ideas. Assemble different loot items and you can generate a fake idea good for x number of uses. More skill the longer it lasts. would keep it interesting. (kinda like the picture printer or viewscreen printer works)
Alas this is only my dream..and will never happen
Laraxa
dude that sounds like an awsome idea i would love something like that
Ultron69
Sat Oct 01, 2005 9:12 am
#13
As for Checkpoints I think they should be at Spacestations.Tractor Beams you into enemy Ship.onced locked on you are ejected from Cockpit to a airlock that you couldn't leave but had a timmer before boarded to prepare, even Be able to have a "Stash" option and be able to avoid combat %.From slick talking.Once boarded and attacked you couldn't retreat in your ship but would be able to Have combat on there Ship.
And an Idea for the Smuggler mission terminal would be make your Delivery a Bounty Hunters Mark mission;A race to deliver before the Bounty Hunter Kills him.You would be able to PVP the Bounty Hunter if encounterednear your Boss to save your Delivery mission But if you made your delivery before the Bounty Hunter his mark disappears and no loot reward for him. Or not PvP,Drop mission ormake a deal with the Bounty Hunter in game.The more Bounty Hunters you Kill in combat the more visibility as a scoundrel,would make it on the Bounty Hunter Terminals.
It ain't aCrime if you don't get caught
Sharkey
Tempest
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