Suggestion for X2

[SteelRush]

I think to go along with the realism of a living universe, there should be pilots you can hire in the game. It gets rather drab commanding your drone ships around. The Xenon were drone ships and look what happened there.

Being able to hire pilots which have their own trading/combat ratings that effect how they perform would be very interesting. For example, a pilot with high trading skills and low combat would not be a wise choice in a fighter. Lets say they get wages on a weeky basis debited out of your factory acc they work for.

[Gandalf The White]

That's sort of expanding on the FFE style yes? But instead of crew for your ship, this is individual trading and fighting pilets. Yes good idea. But would you jusst be hiring the pilet? Or the ship as well. But yes it is a good idea.

[Meltdown]

There's an inherent flaw in this:
machine --> you buy it once, make it work, and occasionally pay for maintenance
man --> you hire him, and you have to keep paying him as long as you employ him

See where this is going? Having lots of ships would be extremely hard, as their pilots' wages would suck all your profits.
I poposed something like this in the past: ships, once bought, are flown by the onboard computer. Hiring a pilot would drastically improve the ship's performances (well, realistically: adding a pilot wouldn't, say, change the ship's max speed); in this way you could still have armies of ships, but the more pilots you could hire, the more advantage you'd have in a fight.

[SteelRush]

The wages for a pilot depend on his skills. Only the best pilots would demand a high salary that could cut in on your profits.

Another idea for a wage system is for traders, they are paid by the load and/or distance and for fighters, they are paid by the kill.

[Tiberian Commander]

what about this
You hire some fighters to guard you and when you have finnished let them go, The same as you do when you get to guard someone els and so on

[Kissakias]

I will agry with the Meltdown

The perfect solution with computer and with pilots (our choise)

[Snokid]

:gruebel:I don't see how there would be much difference..they would both, the ai or pilot would be controlled by YOUR computer anyway....so...unless they added tons of code so that the "human"" pilot can actually fight well...if they did that then it would delay the games release date....

[simduck]

What would be really great is if u could capture stations the way u can capture ships...

& also hire managers for your stations...

& lease a trading station off of a race.....

[Snokid]

the idea for being able to capture stations is good...but why would you want to hire managers ....it would need a lot of scrip in order to make them intereesting-which im sure is what you had in mind...

[Apothos]

the idea for being able to capture stations is good...

No its not, its ridiculous.

Station Owner: "Where'd my station go?! It was here a minute ago..."

[Wargod.]

Off Topic but the Capturing Stations was my idea. Just a reminder before you all go and take it as your own.


-Wargod

[Apothos]

Off Topic but the Capturing Stations was my idea. Just a reminder before you all go and take it as your own.

bull. The idea has been brought up tens of times. Unsuprising for something so stupid.

[Snokid]

Snowyhands wrote:
the idea for being able to capture stations is good...


No its not, its ridiculous.

well it is a little bit akward but would you really expect to be able to build a secret miltiary station?...people do evacuate statoins you know.....

"hmm oh no the shields are going soon the hull il be breached and this staiotn will be destroyed...but oh well we must stay here in order not to be seeming rediculous...."

Off Topic but the Capturing Stations was my idea. Just a reminder before you all go and take it as your own.


-Wargod

how can you be so sure....

[Snokid]

I predicted you would couterattact with such an answer...but I moved on..the topic wasn't really important to me...but if you still want to debate...argue with wargod over his royalties.....

[Wargod.]

I predicted you would couterattact with such an answer...but I moved on..the topic wasn't really important to me...but if you still want to debate...argue with wargod over his royalties.....

Yes, bring it on! I own the joint

-Wargod

[Wargod.]

Off Topic but the Capturing Stations was my idea. Just a reminder before you all go and take it as your own.
-Wargod

how can you be so sure....

Because I'm Wargod I see all, know all, and own all

Now behold my allmightyness

-Wargod

[Snokid]

***walking into my room naked after taking a shower., reads "I see everything"****...huh aghhhhhhh you perv....

you know eerything eh? wlel folow this patern without mesing up )in your head) 1+1=2; 2+2=4; 4+4=8 8+8=16; 16+16=32; 32+32=64; 64+64=128; 128+128=256;256+256=512; 512+512=1024........

[Wargod.]

I

***walking into my room naked after taking a shower., reads "I see everything"****...huh :gruebel:aghhhhhhh you perv....

*Digusted look* No, no, no I only use my powers for good ...... wait no my good. So, I can looks at all the un-attrctive red-heads I want ........ Someone's going to have my head for saying that


-Wargod

[Wargod.]

you know eerything eh? wlel folow this patern without mesing up )in your head) 1+1=2; 2+2=4; 4+4=8 8+8=16; 16+16=32; 32+32=64; 64+64=128; 128+128=256;256+256=512; 512+512=1024........

2048 ooo ahhh really hard Snowyhands. C'mon

-Wargod

[Snokid]

I expected more....... I mean I did say in your head too....