[TopAce]

In the current state of affairs, your view will change to external in the moment your ship begins to jump out - like in FS. So if it remains that way, we won't have to deal will the stretching effect that you see when the Falcon escapes Tatooine in ANH. Of course it would be great to see a similar effect in FotG - we have the subspace.pof anyway at our service; some modifications and tricks might make a decent impression of a hyperspace jump -, but I'd advise caution against being overambitious.

[Stormkeeper]

There's no way to lock the camera in place when jumping out? Or would that require a code change?

[TomShak]

Out of interest what is the current thinking on how ships will go into hyperspace. Will they only be able to jump at preconfigured hyperspace buoys (e.g. XWA) or can they jump from anywhere to anywhere? (e.g. XW and TF).

Canon tends to support the "from any place" concept, given that the Millennium Falcon seemed to make it's hyperspace jump without any concern for a "buoy". However, this means ships could always escape by just jumping into hyperspace. This could make writing certain kinds of missions difficult, for example a mission to ambush a convoy, As soon as you arrive the convoy would start calculating the jump coordinates (if they haven't done so already) and within about 30 seconds they will have jumped away.

[chief1983]

Well we will just have to disable them quickly then.  I'm sure we'll find ways to take those things into account.

[Nohg]

If I were planning an ambush in SW I'd wait until the convoy was in a gravity well and thus unable to flee. Remember, Hyperspace is affected by "mass shadows". If these fights are in deep space, then yes they could run. Inside a system they will be stuck with the gravity wells' power. Or an interdictor craft would make it hard to flee, unless the gravity wells could be knocked out.

[Stormkeeper]

I know the Imps would just bring in an Interdictor cruiser and use it to cast mass shadows all over the dang place.

[varsaigen]

best ship evah!

[Stormkeeper]

I was just playing KotOR and was wondering if the Sith Interdictor vessels operated on the same technology as the Imperial Interdictor vessels. And the Interdictor ship will appear in FotG, right?

[varsaigen]

Hmmm... I haven't read any starwars books in a while and they only mentioned htem in the ones I read. D: Although, you could probably find it on wookieepedia.org
Here's the link to the interdictor ship page: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Interdictor

[Stormkeeper]

Meh.  Why didn't EAW have the Interdictor Star Destroyer. It'd save me the trouble of leaving Victorys and my designated flagship to guard my Interdictors.

[LordMelvin]

Two words: game balance. The Interdictor Star Destroyer is as much a game breaker as an accurately-statted Tie Defender would be in a fighter-oriented game. If the Intradictor can be boomied, then there's much better potential for interesting strategic manouvering.

Also, interesting strategic spelling.

[Scourge of Ages]

Out of interest what is the current thinking on how ships will go into hyperspace. Will they only be able to jump at preconfigured hyperspace buoys (e.g. XWA) or can they jump from anywhere to anywhere? (e.g. XW and TF).

Canon tends to support the "from any place" concept, given that the Millennium Falcon seemed to make it's hyperspace jump without any concern for a "buoy". However, this means ships could always escape by just jumping into hyperspace. This could make writing certain kinds of missions difficult, for example a mission to ambush a convoy, As soon as you arrive the convoy would start calculating the jump coordinates (if they haven't done so already) and within about 30 seconds they will have jumped away.

Why would a convoy/fleet come out of hyperspace if it weren't passing through a gravity well anyway? Maybe they're resupplying? Changing course? Taking on/dropping off ships or supplies? In any case they would be tied down for a while anyway.

[varsaigen]

yes they would. But most likely, they would also be defended until they could escape.

[Stormkeeper]

Why would a convoy/fleet come out of hyperspace if it weren't passing through a gravity well anyway? Maybe they're resupplying? Changing course? Taking on/dropping off ships or supplies? In any case they would be tied down for a while anyway.

Recharging their hyperspace drives, maybe ? Do they even need recharging?

[chief1983]

An Interdictor would be usable in a campaign, you'd just have to either take out its subsystems or wait for help to arrive, either way the goal wouldn't have to be 'blow it up'.

[Zelvik]

Out of interest what is the current thinking on how ships will go into hyperspace. Will they only be able to jump at preconfigured hyperspace buoys (e.g. XWA) or can they jump from anywhere to anywhere? (e.g. XW and TF).

Canon tends to support the "from any place" concept, given that the Millennium Falcon seemed to make it's hyperspace jump without any concern for a "buoy". However, this means ships could always escape by just jumping into hyperspace. This could make writing certain kinds of missions difficult, for example a mission to ambush a convoy, As soon as you arrive the convoy would start calculating the jump coordinates (if they haven't done so already) and within about 30 seconds they will have jumped away.

Actually XWA buoys arent in conflict with canon. They are a workaround within the engine of the X-Wing series representing nothing more than a visual representation of the course that your computer plotted. Its not 100% done within SW realism but the buoy isnt actually present but only visible to your ships sensor systems.

[TopAce]

Those aren't the buoys that contradict canon. It is the fact that you can always jump out if you're within x meters to it, no matter which direction you are facing. As far as I remember XWA, even if you had an SSD straight ahead, you could jump out.

Of course, we can regard this as pure game mechanism.

[brandx0]

Well, I'm no coder, but perhaps when you go to jump one could script a check, a straight line along the ship's axis headed to infinity, and it if intersects with another ship, then it cancels the jump?

As I said, I'm no coder, so it's just a thought.  If it works out though it might be possible to go off that basis and then add in such checks as stars and background objects too.  I'd say one could use it to check for gravity wells also, but I think that'd be better handled in FRED manually.

[varsaigen]

lol. the warp out could be interesting. just imagine, a fighter warpis out and a star destroyer is in the way. if the jump is successful, then either the fighter is obliterated, or the star destroyer has a hole in it. XD

[chief1983]

FS already has a collision detection on warpout, I'm just not sure what range it checks, it may be hardcoded based on FS warpout distances, or it may actually check based on how much space it knows the warpout will need.  I'm betting on the former though.