Dreaming...

[Ambrus]

I'm a bit of a role player, and I often wondered what would it be like if a player could join other factions. Such as Jabba, Valarian, Nym, or Trader Federation, and have the ability to set down faction bases (where applicable: some factions might not be able to effect other planets, like Narmle Police Forces, but it might be fun to run a Bounty hunter in that faction.) to represent/claim some territory them. It's all well and good to have the main two "legitimate" governing factions(Empire/Rebellion - Republic) represented, but what about the others?

How difficult would it be to have some faction recruiters hidden or scattered around the galaxy, and give players the opportunity to join them and gain rank, and the ability to set up faction bases?

[Cynar]

You would be talking about a massive amount of coding. I would maybe dream a bit smaller perhaps.

[Ambrus]

ROFL

You're right. It'd be fun though.

[Ambrus]

Ok, here's dreaming a little smaller: Does any one remember, back in the early days of live, the Imperial Viper Probe Droids that used to randomly wander a planet looking for Rebel activity? If it detected a Rebel or someone attacked it (I was usually the dummy that attacked it.), then a Lambda Shuttle would show up and a platoon of Imperial Troopers would spawn with in 2-3 minutes of the attack, or detection of Rebel activity. Sometimes you could run into a random shuttle with Imperial Troopers in front of it, standing in formation. Each platoon consisted of an officer and anywhere from 35 - 55 troopers (I can't remember the exact number. I know that a standard U.S. Marine Corps platoon has 3 - 4 squads with 13 in each squad with a platoon sergeant and a platoon commander. So, a 3 squad platoon would have 41 in it and a 4 squad would have 54. At least back when I was in that's the way it was. Anyway!)

Each planet spawned different types of troops:
Tatooine and Lok - Storm Troopers, Sand Troopers, Scout Troopers
Corellia, Talus, Naboo, Dantooine - Storm Troopers, Scout Troopers
Rori and Endor - Storm Troopers, Scout Troopers, Swamp Troopers
Yavin - I don't remember seeing this on Yavin.
Dathomir - Never saw this happen on Dath.

Not sure if anyone remembers it. I haven't seen it on any Pre-CU servers. I started playing SWG a couple of months after it went live. So, I'd say this was like pre publish 5 or 6 I guess. Hard for me to remember that far back, lol.
This is purely PVE in nature. Anything I think of that would improve chances for PVP and PVE would require massive amounts of code, (Like some of the NGE GCW contentl; City siege and defense...LOVED THAT!) and I think this would require a lot as it stands.

[lassic]

I remember the shuttles. I was a rebel colonel on live, and had a shuttle drop a platoon of troops on me including dark troopers.

[Ambrus]

Fun days that!