A warship to replace 'Galaxy Gunship'

[Timealude]

Originally Posted by Shogun

if a big flying battleship makes it into the game, it should be one per continent, and it should be invincible by conventional attacks.

it should be a flying capturepoint we have to bail over and take it from the inside.
maybe make the guns destructible so the owner has to keep engineers inside.

but i don´t really know how to manage who is going to steer that thing. maybe platoon leaders can request this thing to a certain base and it will go to the base that got the most requests.

i think this would start up the whole is this bf again? conversation.... lol

[meiam]

Originally Posted by Ohanka

NOW THIS idea i love. Give it a full interior too. A bridge, guns, an engineering section. It should have the ability to be flown around. It'd need like 40 people to crew it.

Oh lord i want to see this in the game now. I imagine large battles inside the Flying Battleship. Even specialized "Marine" outfits for Battleship defence and boarding.

That would be awesome, but it should be possible to destroy it and be on a long re spawn CD or cost a tons of resource and be first empire to build.

[JHendy]

Originally Posted by Ohanka

Oh lord i want to see this in the game now. I imagine large battles inside the Flying Battleship. Even specialized "Marine" outfits for Battleship defence and boarding.

Sounds very much like 2142's Titan mode. I like it. I like it a lot.

[Aldman]

Originally Posted by Tikuto

We've inspired the developers so much. Lets define a gunship again in PlanetSide 2. PlanetSide1's Galaxy Gunship should remain that way - PlanetSide1's item.

Lets be clear that Galaxy has always been a transports ship. A vehicle of logistics. By strapping heavy weapons onto it deviates from its logistics purpose, it malforms its identity and its purpose!

• Galaxy: Logistic
• Reav/Scy/Mos: Combat (tactical & self-defended)
• new gunship/warship: Attack (little self-defence)

Let's not have a 'Galaxy Gunship'.
Let's replace with new distinct vehicle!

Tactical blimp.

Still a cool idea, but it seems more like expansion content. Nobody is taking my galaxy away!

[Demarkin]

Originally Posted by JHendy

eh? eh?

Ha! Yes! Steampunk enters Sci-Fi world and converges into battle with flying 16th century cannons! I like, I like!

[Tikuto]

Originally Posted by Aldman

Nobody is taking my galaxy away!

And it wouldn't be taken away. It stay as a logistics transport vehicle.

[Talek Krell]

I don't think this even qualifies as an idea. There's no development on it, you just posted a picture of some sort of space battleship and added some nonsensical rambling in an attempt to justify it without explaining why it's needed or even what it is.

[Tikuto]

Ok. Fine.

Each piece of apparatus has variation of its designed purpose. Focusing on vehicles, each vehicle has their own designed purpose. A single purpose. However, the Galaxy spreads into more than just logistics and transport. When you say 'Galaxy incoming'! it will always be prompt with 'What sort of Galaxy?' because of this Gunship spin-off.


All starting from the ancient old idea of PlanetSide forums of old someone from Community brought-up a gunship concept with images. Community loved it! Some year(s) later, SOE decide to have a Galaxy Gunship, which was extremely piss-poor attempt at bringing something new in PlanetSide1. For SOE's PlanetSide team it was an easy substitute to bringing that wonderful renowned initial idea into the game.

I am challenging these two things:

1. Galaxy is a logistics ship and not a battle ship. No confusion!
2. Original gunship idea did not include a Galaxy variation. This was Dev's incompetence.

[MedicDude]

I support the idea of a high-flying gunship that punishes enemy armor. (a real gunship with guns all on one side, not that BS that was the GalGunship, seriously wtf was that). It should offer no solution to enemy fighters, and focus on an anti-armor role, with anti-armor cannons that are terrible at shooting squishies, but should boast ample countermeasures to protect it from such ground targets.

The Liberator and single-pilot aircraft should continue to focus on being close-support craft that can make use of rear weak spots if they can get in behind the enemy.

Still should carry a maximum crew of 5, nothing should have more hitpoints than the galaxy.