Space Stations

You wouldn’t really need code support for that Kora. If you wanted it tied to an ongoing underground. You simply app for it. You make the smuggler app for a base you can keep roaming in uncharted and hope some law enforcement doesn’t get wind of it to track you down via locate and fear <!– s;) –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!– s;) –>

Yay walldo I am glad that you are considering it. I will be down to write up room descs etc if you do implement stations in the near future.

And you’d think that it would be possible to stop the ships from transmitting this information, or changing the information that they broadcast.

Even with the 150 slicer feat, it is still far too easy to locate ships that you should have no business being able to locate.

The idea is that, due to stellar drift and asteroids and comets and orbits and all that other stuff, ships need to be in constant contact with navigational beacons to relay up-to-the-minute navigation information. [Edited to add: Wasn’t there something about this in the Peragus part of KotOR II?] Sort of like avionics on steroids. Each ship also needs its own unique transponder ID, to sort it out from the mass of others.

Commlinks, however, are more like a cross between HAM radios and cell phones. Like HAM radios in that anyone with a unit with a crystal operating on the proper frequency can access the channels. Like cellphones in that everyone has one or two and there’s no test or information or licensing required to operate one. Also, cellphones make direct calls from one point to another and are registered by the service provider and type of phone and whatnot, whereas HAM radio, it’s just waves on the air, any noise could come from anyone in range, and there’s no way to single them out or identify them.

We can assume clan channels are more like those military systems that are encrypted and can relay data as well as voices.

You needed an up-to-date chart for navigating to Peragus because… well… it’s at the center of an asteroid field. Normal space is largely totally empty, and to navigate basically you have to steer clear of things like wayward planets and stars and the occasional space junk… not a particularly difficult task.

It takes an assload of complicated systems and transponder codes to navigate the relatively (in the grand scheme of things) empty and uncomplicated atmosphere over earth. Yes, an airplane can turn their transponder off, which renders them (mostly) invisible, but also means they have no idea where they are other than looking out the window and VOR beacons.

So I think pingship and locateship are an accurate representation of a realistic system. Pingship only gets you the distance to the nearest system, which is a lot less than theoretically a transponder code would tell you, but that accounts other things, like in-system navigation being handled by shorter range signal-finding systems like a space version of VOR rather than transponder codes and real time two-way data.

Locateship is like looking up somebody’s license plate on their car with the addition of the last landing location. Last landing location just makes sense, remember the conversation on the death star that they had no idea who or what was in it but that it matched the description of a ship that blasted its way out of Mos Eisley? Like a red minivan, plate number 123-ABC, owned by John Doe, was seen at the scene of the crime.

Peragus was one of those cases where drift charts had to be updated constantly for the safety of incoming ships AND the safety of the colony.

With regards to hyperspace travel, generally it was managed by people and organizations who either explored new hyper routes or made sure the current hyper routes were still safe for travel and this is what these people did every single hour of every day. Navigational beacons were used to make sure people traveling in hyperspace didn’t veer off the known safe hyperlanes.

They’d still have to transmit their findings, and people’d still have to update themselves on the latest findings, and you’re heavily downplaying the dangers of crap floating through space and other ships and whatnot.

I think it’s realistic, you’re inventing a litany of reasons why it shouldn’t be. If you wanna hide, don’t hide in a ship.

If you wanna increase the difficulty in pingshipping, make the feat trainer harder to find, or mobile, or a bitch of a quest.

Lol, we’re trying to give espi/slicer more skills, not nerf them more.