By unique ship, I mean one that is limited to one per list. Right now, you can fly two YT-1300s, but only one can be the Falcon, or four HWKs, but only one can be the Moldy Crow. But why not a ship that is truly unique? Star Wars has plenty of examples of prototype ships, extreme custom modifications, and the like to support the fluff of such a ship, and it'd allow FFG to play with some interesting design space without worrying about players just fielding a list of multiples of the same ship.

However, the cost of developing a whole ship that mechanically restricts itself to a single purchase might make the idea unfeasible. Even if it came with killer upgrades, it'd be incredibly hard for anyone to justify the purchase of a second ship when you can literally only field one.

Some ships that have already been released lend themselves to this, especially the Ghost. Sure, other VCX-100s probably exist, but why not just bake on the title and make it unique? I'd think the majority of people are only buying one anyway, especially since most of the upgrades are also unique.

But then you won't buy multiples, and that's not good for the business model

I hope not.

Now they can easily make a ship that you'd only see one of in a 100 point list by making it 51 points or more but that isn't what you were getting at. Of course if you look at Epic you could say that the Raider and Corvette are both "unique" ships as the rules don't really allow you to field multiples even though you know there are more ships of that class.

While it may hurt you suspension of disbelief it is probably easy enough to make a "unique" ship such that purchasing multiple copies of it just isn't that appealing. The possibility exists that someone would still get a second copy to field two but that's the nature of the game.

If you really want unique ships in the game the best way to get them is clearly titles although pilots with alternative stats may work just as well.

Right now I purchase 1 ship and I get 4 or more different options with that single purchase. A unique ship would remove options and decrease the value of that purchase. Unless you put in the rules that only one of the ship could be fielded but still give me the different pilots. However if you did that then it would not really be unique then would it?

I think titles are doing exactly what you asked for. Why take away options and value by making the ship itself unique.

The star wars universe is massive and fairly technologically stagnant there is always more then 1 of any ship built.

None related, but where the hell did all the clone wars hardware go? Like wtf it was only a couple of decades even current military works on longer cycles. Logically there should be tons of clonewar ships all over the place in the original trillogy. Makes me hate Lucas so **** much like where the hell did R2-D2 rockets go? Like what the hell. Honor your original movies and make the prequels with logical tech that would flow into the original trillogy.

Ghost is close enough. But, I wouldn't be surprised to see a 51 pt ship someday.

The closest you have to this is the IG-2000 with its only four in existence and therefore all unique pilots.

IG-1000 was even more rare, if not actually unique.

But the chances of that thing being an expansion are about the same as the Suncrusher

But then you won't buy multiples, and that's not good for the business model

Some ships that have already been released lend themselves to this, especially the Ghost. Sure, other VCX-100s probably exist, but why not just bake on the title and make it unique? I'd think the majority of people are only buying one anyway, especially since most of the upgrades are also unique.

2 ghosts is so good. Making it unique would just arbitrarily reduce diversity.

I'd be ok if uglies were introduced as unique ships.

The closest you have to this is the IG-2000 with its only four in existence and therefore all unique pilots.

IG-2000 were ships used by IG-88 based on the chassis of the Trilon Aggressor assault fighter. Mandolorians were the other known users of the Aggressor.

The closest you'd get to a unique ship is either one where all pilots are unique (as mentioned with the IG-2000 and Ghost), or simply title cards. There's only one Millennium Falcon, so there's a unique title card. You're almost certainly not going to get a ship with a unique chassis, precluding the use of more than one, no matter the build. As above, a 51 point ship isn't beyond the realms of possibility, as that's still open for use on it's own in standard games, and in multiples for epic games. Apart from the obvious business lead drawbacks of that, it's not a great game device, nor even particularly fluffy.

They basically did this with the StarViper. You need that title pretty badly, and the title is unique.

They basically did this with the StarViper. You need that title pretty badly, and the title is unique.

Guri is not bad with out the title. Guri with predator and auto thrusters.

They won't release a ship that won't realistically have the ability to be purchased as a multiple by players. They'd have to price the ship too high to make up for the development and initial production costs (molds) to the point it likely wouldn't sell unless it was blatant powercreep. Obviously that would be a problem.

Isn't the E-Wing already a ship with just one pilot?

Some ships that have already been released lend themselves to this, especially the Ghost. Sure, other VCX-100s probably exist, but why not just bake on the title and make it unique? I'd think the majority of people are only buying one anyway, especially since most of the upgrades are also unique.

The majority perhaps, but I'm totally buying 2 ghosts. The vcx and the shuttle are both so good (and totally worth running 2 ghosts or 2 shuttles ina list)