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CaptainCato

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Fighter wings
« on: February 20, 2012, 03:12:39 PM »
One thing I would really love would be to able to pilot a fighter in a fighter wing. I don't know how it can turn out as there are 2 or more fighters in one wing, but fighting with such a ship is something I would personally love. Again, I really cannot say in what way this can be achieved, maybe make special fighters that are a bit more powerful, but only 1 per wing, or even control multiple ships?
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Qloos

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Re: Fighter wings
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2012, 04:22:19 PM »
The other fighters are given a "fighter escort" order and are considered a different fighter wing?
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Re: Fighter wings
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2012, 04:25:30 PM »
I have to say, I would very much love it if campaign mode started you out on an even smaller scale, piloting one fighter sized ship, and with only fuel and 1 crew in your cargo.

Obviously I'm thinking forward in the development a bit, as there would need to be better design and gameplay structure to realistically get anywhere with so humble a beginning. Maybe you'd be able to run cargo from planet to planet while avoiding (or engaging) pirates until you work the cash up for a frigate or more fighter wingman buddies.

Anyway, being able to pilot fighters at any point in the game would be pretty cool, imo, so I would be all for this. Implementation should be as easy as making the AI control the rest of the fighters in a wing and follow the ship the player controls, and when the player's controlled fighter dies, control switches to the next living fighter in the wing.
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Re: Fighter wings
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2012, 04:27:34 PM »
that sounds like the start of X3 and honestly after i played X3 (the original) the first time all the other iterations of that game i have just cheated so i didnt have to spend countless hours trying to claw myself up into a larger craft so that i could have options and do cool things like fight an entire sector if i wanted to.
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You won't be able to refit fighters and bombers at all. They're designed/balanced around having a particular set of weapons and would be very broken if you could change it. Which ones you pick for your fleet -out of quite a few that are available- is the choice here, not how they're outfitted.

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Re: Fighter wings
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2012, 07:39:29 PM »
I'd really like to be able to pilot fighters too. I wouldn't want my fighter to be arbitrarily any more powerful than other fighters though, that cheapens it.
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CaptainCato

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Re: Fighter wings
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2012, 01:37:51 AM »
Maybe this can go further. For example, you start off the campaign with a single or more fighter wings, you control one of them. You can get a job of a mercenary, IE: you go the the Hegemony fleet and talk with them, and they hire you as a fighter in their fleet. You would listen to their orders, and join the ranks of the other fighters. Once you worked a lot for them you gathered money, little bit of loot here and there from battles, and the payment which is daily/whatever, you can(eventually) start your own fleet and(maybe) hire mercenaries yourself. This would really be a nice addition to the campaign honestly.
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Re: Fighter wings
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2012, 01:40:46 AM »
Would be an interesting idea. But I think it would frustrate some beginning players, who would stop playing the game before they get to the real interesting fleet-level tactics. Perhaps set several stages that you can choose to start at (ie, fighter-level, frigate-level, light destroyer-level) and set a decreasing number of "campaign points" or whatever depending on where you start from.
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Re: Fighter wings
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2012, 05:51:41 AM »
Well they dont have to stop playing. As I said before, even though you start with a small fighter, you can go get a mercenary job. Usually new players explore, so they will most likely try the dialogues and see they can be hired. I'd assume it's much more fun to start from such a low-level, plus fighting a small fighter would be pretty cool.
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