Boarding ships

[Isamu]

it would have to pull the ship inside i think. maybe have it so a stardestroyer or other capital ship traps the ship in its tractor beam, then lauches boarding shuttles out to it.

[strike23]

yeah, sort of like what happened in ep. 4

[Isamu]

sort of except i wouldn't bring the ship inside. from a practical matter ships have self destructs. imagine what kind of damage to a stardestroyer a blockade runner could do by blowing its self up inside of it.

[vadereclipse]

i don't think the eaw engine can do something like boarding.

[Isamu]

there is only one way to find out

[grandadmiralbeck]

didnt arbiter say it was possible?

[Isamu]

yes he did and really it should be

[Corey]

No. I said boarding was possible, and that is via a shuttle that you make as an individual unit. You can't use tractor beams and then make your ship blow up inside. after the battle you would have your shuttle back, and the unit you stole would be destroyed. You also can't make it so you need a certain number of shuttles to do it, and there is no probability for it either. You say to do it, it does it, and that's it. That is the only option here.

[grandadmiralbeck]

i still think it would be cool. who cares if it's a little bit unrealistic. the rebels blew up and huge battle station with one x-wing, thats pretty unrealistic.

[Dr. Knickers]

Going along that line, one X-Wing blowing up a station would look cool. So why not do it? Who cares if it's a bit unrealistic?

[Isamu]

if the mod team gets a chance, they really should go for it.

[Slornie]

Considering how unrealistic it is, i really dont think there is any point in adding it.  I mean, first of all you're expecting your shuttle to be able to sneak in close enough to the ship, then have maybe 40 soldiers capture a larger ship (carrying a larger crew) without significant losses or damage (isnt Imperial protocol to destroy the ship rather than let it fall into enemy hands?).  Then you expect your remaining soldiers to operate the ship for the duration of the battle (probably with less than minimum crew), and at the end hand it back to the enemy ("Hi, we borrowed your Lancer, you can have it back now") rather than commandeering it for the Alliance, or setting it to self destruct.

Actually, Slornie, the ship would be destroyed after the battle.- Arb

Isamu, arent you forgetting:

i think the team should more focus on finishing rather than adding stuff

[Isamu]

on this piece, i take back what i said. and if you think about it, adding boarding ships would really popularize the mod.

[Slornie]

Why would it "popularize" the mod?  Its not really anything special.

In any case, it would probably unbalance the game if whichever faction could build a load of these boarding shuttles, and just commandeer the enemy forces rather than building their own fleets.

[Isamu]

ships that are taken cannot be passed on after that fight

[Corey]

If we ever did it, it would probably be for the Rebellion in skirmish and the boarding shuttles would cost immense amounts of money.


As for making the mod more popular, nothing can. We're even the only people to ever release Grievous and Delta Squad, and see how much even that helped? We're not just going to do whatever the public claims they want when we think it'll make the mod worse as a whole.

[Ahdanack030]

Btw Isamu, just a thought but how annoying would it be to have noobs online just building the ship boarders. i know it would cost a lot, but in a 2v2 skirmish, it would easily be possible. I think its just another way for inexperiance players to beat the more seasoned gamers.