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Post by **Legion 2.5** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:23 am

Maybe go inside the blockade runners in space battles?

Post by **Arosenivai** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:25 am

Legion 2.5 wrote:Maybe go inside the blockade runners in space battles?

The thing is how?

Post by **Legion 2.5** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:27 am

The Same way you go into the capital ships in BF2. Just smaller.

Post by **Arosenivai** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:30 am

Blockade runners are maybe three starfighters wide at best, though. That doesn't make sense.

Post by **Legion 2.5** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:40 am

It would be cool though and make a lot easier to end space battles.

Post by **Scott** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:12 am

How did they do it in the movies/books?

Post by **Kelevra** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:40 am

The same way they did in A New Hope.

Reel it in with a tractor beam and connect the boarding ramp.

Post by **Scott** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:04 am

Kelevra wrote:The same way they did in A New Hope.

Reel it in with a tractor beam and connect the boarding ramp.

Why not just do it like that then?

Post by **Legion 2.5** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:58 am

That would be cool.

Post by **Kelevra** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:01 pm

That could add another layer of strategy. You wouldn't want to completely destroy their capitol ship while your frigate is still attached, so you'd need to send a team to disable the tractor beam, and disconnect the ship.

But this is all wishful thinking, and probably wont even be possible until the PlayStation 9 or something comes around.

Post by **Legion 2.5** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:03 pm

You could go in it and destroy the core.

Post by **Arosenivai** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:30 pm

Scott wrote:How did they do it in the movies/books?

There's actual boarding docks on the underside of the craft on the corvette. I think there's two. (remember how Obi-wan docked the Soulless One on the Tantive IV in episode 3? )

Kelevra wrote:That could add another layer of strategy. You wouldn't want to completely destroy their capitol ship while your frigate is still attached, so you'd need to send a team to disable the tractor beam, and disconnect the ship.

But this is all wishful thinking, and probably wont even be possible until the PlayStation 9 or something comes around.

The only reason why they used the tractor beam on the Tantive IV, was because they wanted the "passengers... alive". In any of the space battles they never used a tractor beam.

Post by **Kelevra** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:47 pm

Right, but we're talking gameplay here. Pulling the ships in would be the only way I could see this being done if these support frigates are to be boarded at all.

Post by **Arosenivai** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:55 pm

Kelevra wrote:Right, but we're talking gameplay here. Pulling the ships in would be the only way I could see this being done if these support frigates are to be boarded at all.

There's got to be a better way than trying to add all of that as a mechanic. To me, it seems like a waste of good development time.

Post by **Sam** » Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:26 pm

I have an idea on how to get onto the ship, but getting of the ship is another matter. Anyway, attackers can get on a ship via a vessel like this:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Droch-cl ... rding_ship

Thats how the CIS could get onboard vessels with no docks. This is what the empire and rebels used:

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Spiral-c ... sault_ship

I am not sure what the republic used though.