aramis said:
As for the clueless remark, yeah, it was out of line. Still, the basic idea that people won't be upset if a rescale happens later is ludicrous.
FFS, I agree with you that a rescale needs to happen! I will be upset if it DOESN'T happen at the vehicle scale. There is NO REASON not to rescale planetary speeders to intermediate between character and starships.
I don't think there is a need to add capital ship scale for the exact same reason there doesn't need to be more than 3 force powers: IT'S NOT THE FOCUS OF THE GAME. It doesn't matter if they're in the book or not; They don't need MORE attention/balance/mechanics/effort.
If you either don't want to or can't believe that a metic sh!tlton of rules, stats, and mechanics are going to change in the subsequent releases of this game, then you're the one that could not be more clueless and you are in serious need of a reality check. Sorry you don't like it, but… well, no. I'm not sorry: It's your problem, because you disagree with what the devs decided to do, not with me. Have fun losing that argument with them.
As far as personal weapons damaging starfighters, two things: First, handguns don't do **** to military aircraft, either grounded or aloft. And they shouldn't. This part of your argument is just f*cking stupid. Second, characters should be able to damage starfighters or other heavy vehicles using…
- Breach weapons
- exploitation of weak points
- Seriously heavy firepower (missile tubes, E-WEBs. etc.)
Or some combination of these. All these options are already in the game and work fine. gribble is right in pointing out where the ACTUAL problems in the system lie, and that a vehicle rescale will go a long way to solving it.
Finally, there is absolutely no reason to believe that even heavy weapons should be able to damage, let along bring down, starfighters. This is absolutely not a priority in EotE because it's not relevant to the setting 99% of the time. Further, there's no precedent for this in the movies that I can recall. I may be wrong, but I don't think I am.
Seriously, get over yourself and maybe reconsider insulting people who are fundamentally agreeing with you , even if they manage to have their head further out of their @$$ than you do when they explain why at least part of your idea doesn't belong in the game because of the devs' previous design statements.
-WJL