Removing Command NPCs

So yeah, I was just looking at the command NPCs and thought to myself, this is ludicrous, way to much to keep track of! Therefore, I'm removing them and in their place, adding this change to combat and piloting rules.

All ships are treated like they have NPC crews, meaning they can be flown without an NPC on board.
For combat however, Fleet Commanders can command ships in battle even if they are not there personally.

Ok, so now we dont need them to enguage in combat and all that....

Well adding them was good idea, but after a while, it kinda got kinda stupidish, thou it would be nice to keep Admirals

You should increase the price of ships so that you still ' pay ' for the NPCs...

nooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's sensible, people are not going to work for free, even if they believe in your cause. People still want money, no matter who you are...

Jedi don't want Money.

There isn't a Jedi Order in this game, there is a Rebel Alliance

The Rebel Alliance payed their troops, heck they even payed Privateers and Pirates. And, in actuality the Rebel Alliance payed per kill, so you should be paying for every kill that is made.

Here was the pay table;

Troopers / Deckmen | 100 Credits
Sergeants / Chiefs | 200 Credits
Ensigns / Lieutenants | 300 Credits
Command Rank Officers | 500 Credits
Flag Rank Officers | 1,000 Credits
Sector Rank Officials | 5,000 Credits

SOURCE

Various Star Wars RPG sourcebooks, which are widely regarded even by Lucas Arts / Lucas Film lmt. as Canon.

i never said there was a Jedi order In this game.

Actually, I need to go and do a massive revamping of all stats anyways, so prices will change while I'm at it

If you need help Darkwing I got literally a entire bookshelf worth of Star Wars sourcebooks, not the new ones... Like the old WEG and Wotc ones, d6 and d20 respectively. I also play KOTOR and KOTOR II a lot so I'm real familiar with the D20 stats, which I can probably convert to normal stats.

I'm good, things are based on the DOF engine, though I use sources like wookiepedia to judge balance, like what's stronger than what and by how much. While I'm at it, think I'll remove legacy era tech from the game

Yeah Legacy Era tech, honestly didn't notice it...

Wookiepedia can be wrong though, so be careful...

Still gives a general idea of what is stronger than what, which is good for this game

Oh! And I'll be bringing back hotspots

Hot spots? Meh, we'll see them when they come, sounds like either a place of super production or something....

That reminds me, certain planets should have perks, like this; Fondor had ships 25% off due to orbital facilities rivaling Kuat, Kuat should have ships 50% off. Kessel has a free automatic unique prison, and Spice mines. Capturing Bothawui nets the ruling faction a special spy unit that is better and possibly cheaper.

Etc..

Maybe, right now I'm focused more on the tech of the game. Hot spots are basially defining the areas of the ship ie: weapons, engines, gravity well etc. These will each have their own HP level which when combined is the overall ship HP level. So basically, if you're attacking a ship, you can take out say the gravity well generator and not have to destroy the ship (unless it was the last hotspot remaining of course)

I was thinking of adding that to my game except I called them hard points...

Well they used to be in an older version of this game (you may remember actually) back when I had stats for everything, each type of weapon etc. Except the hotspots never reduced the overall HP of the ship if they were all destroyed, now they will

That version was over complicated

Yeah, that's why I got rid of it, but I think I've found a good middle ground now, so we'll see

Nuchiha wrote:I was thinking of adding that to my game except I called them hard points...

I kinda all ready added HP's to the new Breed of ships.