Combat Updates

Track should either be much more effective, or alternate ways to track people added.

Reason: Tracking as it exists right now, this moment, on LOTJ, does not account for a good deal many things. Such as the storekeeper who sold the fella his gell, and stood in the room as he disguised. Or possible tracking devices of a massively assorted type. There are other ways to track a person, but my brain is tired and so am I. But some sorts of examples are people who hack into some sort of database and seeing "Jack" spending money at "The coruscant whore house" or some such. Its not always just "Look on the ground. See the guy?" I mean in real life we got cell phone tracking, sattelites, all kinds of wild and crazy shit, aside from just "Hey bob, see the guys footprint there? No? Damn, lost him again." and I somehow doubt such things were forgotten in star wars. Comlinks can be traced, for example. Now I understand a lot of that can’t be accounted for in the code, but thats why I think track should either be radically changed into multiple kinds of tracking methods, improved to bypass disguises in some circumstances, or left alone.

On the other hand, there should be varying ways within disguise too.

Last, the fact that people can "change their voice" at the drop of a hat, is retarded. "Voice Analysis protocols" or some such star wars thing, would prevent it from even ALMOST fooling a droid, and I’m quite sure hunters such as Jango, Boba, Greedo, ect ect had other ways to tell when someone was trying to hide their voice.

And I had this great thought the other day about hunters…

Think about this seriously. If Boba Fett was going after a prominent figure…bounty type is irrelevant here, alive, dead…but lets say alive. said figure lives in a secure building, government building in fact. Monitored by say…alarm systems. Do you not think he’d be able to bypass and or disable these systems? Point is, I think BHers should get a skill, a hard one to adept, with "Science class style" level maxes, that allow them to bypass the alarms in peoples bases. A skill that would be gained at say, level 50. And for each level you get, you can get 1 more % point. Hard to master, yes yes, but possible. So at level 50, they’d be able to get an ENTIRE 1% of this skill…at level 150, 100%. The reason I feel it should be difficult to master isn’t even protecting the hiding morons in their base, or the idiots who think LOTJ should have no PKing, in fact I’d support rules that allowed the PK of anyone who complained in any manner about PK’s or RP. But because if it was possible to do easily, people would abuse it for one retarded reason or another. Stealing something from someone, mugging them even, abducting people for poorly designed ransom, to steal the engineering clans ships…I figure by level 150, these people worked all that time, risked that much adepting it, should deserve to be able to bypass alarms.

Goodnight ladies.

I think its important to add (for the player experience) that the real characters (not the virtual npc masses) represent the oddity, the unique, the drivers&shakers of the universe so the general rules of the day might not necessarily apply.

I would agree that blasters are few and far between for the masses but the played characters not the masses.

Else as Ralen pointed out, we drive inflation to where the fun of the game is hamster wheeled or cliqued.

This is from the skills suggestions from a couple days ago, thought I would post it because the similarity is uncanny. When someone talks about the average joe wouldn’t have this or not everyone would have that, etc. etc.

I would much much much much rather see the current problems with races dealt with than seeing bounty hunters get twinked out even more. There are a lot of races that have just flat out whacked out stats for no reason other than to be a twink. I’d vote to fix the problems that are already out there than create more by bringing something new in.

I’m just trying to help counter the thought that player characters are average or represent civilians and that only military people would have blasters. Your average player character would probably have a blaster between the quality of Luke’s and Han’s. Either way, I am just trying to support blaster classes. Certain classes would be easier to get, I understand this, available to your average player character or Han Solo, but not to Luke the Civilian.

In an extremely vast galaxy with as many planets as it would have, and space travel between some planets taking days or more on normal ships, do you really think its that hard for some backwater world to have a bunch of weapons companies running factories and maybe not ask too many questions about whose buying what, as the planet is too small to monitor massively? Generally the only places youd see weapons actually being restricted, that I can think of on the top of my head, were alderaan (hippy pacifists) and Coruscant (impy capital, and then they still had child-thugs with vibroblades so god knows what real criminals on lower levels had), that sort of place. If you really felt like it im sure theres somewhere on Earth you could go to find at least a small machine gun like MP5 etc or even a bigger gun like an ak-47, now multiply that by the mass distances and number of full-sized planets that star wars would have. Even for the average joe its possible to get what you want with a spaceship, now remember we arent average joes and the least of us usually can afford spaceships.

[quote:xlj5nrew]If you really felt like it im sure theres somewhere on Earth you could go to find at least a small machine gun like MP5 etc or even a bigger gun like an ak-47, now multiply that by the mass distances and number of full-sized planets that star wars would have.[/quote:xlj5nrew]

Solution: Join the governing clan and make them illegalize weapons distribution on their planets. I remember, and surely do most of you people, the Empire that actually made shops selling weaponry RARE by fining/closing these said shops unless they had a special permit. So, why do we not make this an official code to be used by clans that don’t possess such a high influence over the Galaxy? This would make it impossible to get a super blaster rifle anywhere, only on "neutral" planets. I honestly believe that if such thing happened, the prices of these said rifles would go sky high due to their rarity and if lucky, people would join governing clans to get decently equipped without having to sell their asses at a local bus stop first.

Wishful thinking? Probably, but worth a try I reckon.

Been a while since I posted on here, but reading the posts. I love these ideas, if these are implimented I might actually play more. But for now, I’ll stick with my current agenda to get my GED.

Blasters: Normal soldiering and citizen. Should vary greatly in power from weak to strong. 4th highest damcap or tied with forcepikes?
Perhaps split this class into pistols, rifles, heavy weaponry, (explosives is already a class – grenades, although it needs more chemical types to make it). Another idea is instead of having restricted max dam for blasters, have class determine how powerful it is. Rifles for sniping, pistols for close combat, heavy weaponry for lethal close combat. Make heavy weaponry very expensive so that it will take alot of work for someone to get it – but make it pay off. Blasters could be set as 4th ranked damcap or set as the most diverse for damage depending on type and skill of user.

Blades: Hunting / assassin type weapons. Lunge needs an overhaul, its way overpowered. 2nd max damcap. Usual weapons of hunters.

Bowcasters: 3nd highest damcap. 25 Str to wield? Wookiees used em? I think this is the weapon of choice for the elite combatants. Being able to have these should put you on closer footing with a hunter (more so than blasters anyway). This may already be done but perhaps making it sniping oriented with a lower HR than blasters.

Force pikes: Not as much damage as blades or bowcasters. Why pick forcepikes then? They should be able to deflect lightsabers. There are many examples of how flexible yet durable these things are. They also should be able to breach / or doorcut. Many examples of these being used to cut into bulkheads. Due to advantages should probably be lowest damcap (for balance – not necessarily bc its true). Maybe if they have a higher damcap put a restriction on them like 25 str or 25 dex or something. Also, these things should have a higher stun % chance than blasters set on stun. The tip of the damn thing was made for stunning. If its not a passive skill for stunning while fighting, then perhaps put a new command in for combat that can be used each round like gouge.

Lightsabers: 1st or highest damcap. SABERS PWN JOO!

All ideas… feel free to logically debate… but if you say something assholish ill probably flame the shit outa you…. <333