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Offline starlord

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Re: What do you want this project to be?
Funny, that makes 3 imperial designs now... :lol:

aside from that, it's true that giel and vengeance are sort of one timer designs, yet I only recall the "allegiance" as being referred once in the dark empire series... at least that's all I know...

For all we know perhaps the vengeance was also popular... Canon is quite uncertain at that point!

 

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Re: What do you want this project to be?
And then you could land mid mission for a quick swap!  Done taking out the enemy fighters in your interceptor?  Switch to bomber now to pulverize the capships!  Or you could make some sort of crazy hybrid like every fanfic writer in history has made!  Then when the enemy moncal cruiser or stolen SSD comes along, you can use your ring of power!

"Interceptor!"
"Fighter!"
"Bomber!"
"Avenger!"
"Defender!"
"Heart...?"

"GO EMPIRE!"

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Offline Thaeris

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Re: What do you want this project to be?
The Enterprise would actually be a great candidate for a "Bravos" ship... After all, what do fanatical SW fans hate more than Star Trek?  :P
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Offline MR_T3D

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Re: What do you want this project to be?
The Enterprise would actually be a great candidate for a "Bravos" ship... After all, what do fanatical SW fans hate more than Star Trek?  :P
prequel trilogy?

 

Offline brandx0

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Re: What do you want this project to be?
Hayden Christensen?  Kevin J. Anderson?  George Lucas for the last 30 years?
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lol Venator as a Bravos
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Re: What do you want this project to be?
I actually quite like the Venator, it's one of the only prequel ships that actually fits somewhat.  Minus the 400 fighter hangar bay and the beam cannon in the hangar that is.
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I wnat thsi project to be te next mult-milion dollar game hit seller. Lik Caommand and conqeur, only bigger.
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Offline brandx0

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Re: What do you want this project to be?
Couple problems with that:

1)  We can't sell it, we don't have the rights
2)  We have no budget
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Re: What do you want this project to be?
The Enterprise would actually be a great candidate for a "Bravos" ship... After all, what do fanatical SW fans hate more than Star Trek?  :P

That Star Wars fans are Star Trek haters is a misconception at best, and a narrow-minded generalization at worst.
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Offline Thaeris

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Re: What do you want this project to be?
 :wtf:

...Hence "fanatical."

No worries, though.  :)
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Offline CountBuggula

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Re: What do you want this project to be?
The Enterprise would actually be a great candidate for a "Bravos" ship... After all, what do fanatical SW fans hate more than Star Trek?  :P

That Star Wars fans are Star Trek haters is a misconception at best, and a narrow-minded generalization at worst.

I agree - I think it's much more accurate that the above referenced "Bad Star Wars" things such as the prequel and Kevin J Anderson are hated far worse by Star Wars fans than Star Trek is.  Most of us, if anything, just ignore the Trekkies and hope they go away.  Some of us are even trekkies ourselves.

 

Offline PHRiSCo

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Why do Star Wars fans hate Kevin J Anderson? I read his stuff after the Timothy Zahn series I don't remember it being bad, in fact I remember going down to the local Chapters book store, meeting him and getting him to sign the books I had.

Clue me in?

 

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A Brief history of Kevin J Anderson's career with Star Wars:

1994: The Jedi Academy trilogy.  Here we're introduced to a bunch of retarded or whiny new Jedi Knights, and the Sun Crusher, the completely invincible superweapon more powerful than the Death Star and the size of a fighter.  Also includes Admiral Daala, who is so retardedly incompetent that it's amazing that she hasn't been written out of continuity entirely, luckily she dies at the end.  Also Han Solo goes skiing and Kevin J Anderson steals one of Timothy Zahn's Characters (Mara Jade) and makes her retarded.

1994-1998:  The Tales of the Jedi comic book series, where we're treated to a frantic attempt to make the backstory of the Jedi Academy trilogy make some sort of sense, which didn't work so well.

1995:  Darksaber.  Kevin J. Anderson makes a Death Star shaped like a lightsaber.  We're introduced to Durga the Hutt, who would have been Jabba the Hutt except he was dead, so KJA just came up with another name on the fly and wrote Jabba in anyways.  Also Daala is back, turns out she didn't die, she just jumped away at the last second.  KJA steals another of Zahn's characters again, Pellaeon and makes him retarded (Are we seeing a pattern yet?).  Luke falls in love with a Jedi who's trapped in a computer and Crix Madine (the Chuck Norris Guy from Return of the Jedi) is killed off, because KJA hates Chuck Norris.

1995-1998:  The entirety of the Young Jedi Knights series.  Nuff said.

1996:  A Boy and his Monster.  A short story about how the Rancor and Handler used to be best buddies and how when the Handler was out walking the Rancor they were attacked by sandpeople and the Rancor saved his little buddy.

1996: Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88.  In this we find out that the entirety of the second Death Star was actually under the control of IG-88 the entire time, and that the empire really had no control over it at all.  Yes, that's right, IG-88, a bounty hunter who had a brief cameo in ESB, actually WAS the second death star.  In this story he plants a virus and plots a huge droid uprising and just as he's about to launch his dastardly plan into action, Billy Dee Williams blows everything up while screaming "Yee-Haw!"

2001: Bane of the Sith.  Well, I'll just let the picture do the talking:




After he was pretty much forcibly removed from the Star Wars writers circle for trying to ruin the franchise, he decided to ruin Dune instead.

But mostly we hate him because if not for him we wouldn't have to put up with this guy:




I'll close with some famous Kevin J. Anderson quotes:

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet.

Because I've done these Dune books, and I'm a big outdoor hiker and mountain climber, I think that you can get along just fine with forests and things.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

Star Wars has all the color, the humor, the action, the monsters and lots of aliens, so why not come up with an epic storyline that has all the politics, wheels within wheels stuff from Dune, but all the color and space battles and aliens from Star Wars, and just turn everything loose?


And my favourite:

I'm playing amateur psychologist here, but these are very diehard fans and I think there's a little bit of jealousy here. I think they wish they had gotten picked to write Star Wars books.
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Offline CountBuggula

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Re: What do you want this project to be?
Kevin J Anderson actually wrote the first Star Wars books I read.  The Jedi Academy Trilogy was actually what got me started in the whole thing.  And at the time (I was in middle school) I enjoyed them because I didn't know any better.  Then I got to read some of Timothy Zahn and realized what "good" Star Wars fiction was like, came to realize what an utter crock of ridiculous nonsense the sun crusher was, etc.

I enjoyed many good Star Wars novels after that...what killed the genre for me was actually the X-Wing series.  I haven't read any Star Wars since somewhere around book 3...

 

Offline PHRiSCo

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Well I was too young to remember. Since the prequels I've pretty much written off any other Star Wars fiction other than the original trilogy and the Heir To The Empire trilogy.

 
Re: What do you want this project to be?
There is one awesome Old Republic book though.  Its called Outbound Flight, and guess who wrote it, Timothy Zahn.  It also contains Thrawn, which makes it even more awesome.
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Re: What do you want this project to be?
1995:  Darksaber.  Kevin J. Anderson makes a Death Star shaped like a lightsaber.  We're introduced to Durga the Hutt, who would have been Jabba the Hutt except he was dead, so KJA just came up with another name on the fly and wrote Jabba in anyways.  Also Daala is back, turns out she didn't die, she just jumped away at the last second.  KJA steals another of Zahn's characters again, Pellaeon and makes him retarded (Are we seeing a pattern yet?).  Luke falls in love with a Jedi who's trapped in a computer and Crix Madine (the Chuck Norris Guy from Return of the Jedi) is killed off, because KJA hates Chuck Norris.

Well at least A.C. Crispin makes the Hutts and Durga of Besadii whole hell of a lot more interesting in the Han Solo Trilogy.  Legitimate pan galactic organized Crime Lords rather then delusional Space Slugs building malfunctioning Death Star lasers with their legion of space ferrets.

Oh god the IG 88 story, "I think therefore I am"?  oh god was that awful
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Re: What do you want this project to be?
I found the guys who wrote Death Star and The Black Fleets Crisis series to be a lot worse than anything that Kevin J. Anderson wrote.

The worst was the Jedi Prince series. I knew those were bad when I was a kid! They're a good example of why it's necessary to pick and choose what will be put in this game.

 

Offline starlord

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Forgive me, but it so happens I have a question regarding star wars canon (albeit a little technical):

the question revolves around the dreadnaught class (that ship which is mandalorian in design): if I recall well, XW vs TF as well as XWA picture them as we know them (the bulky design), yet the old tie-fighter game features a dreadnaught whic borrows much more from the corellian corvette in appearance (especially in the engine area)... are the 2 designs actually the same?

Also, the Xwing games do feature a few inconsistencies: for instance, the imobiliser cruiser (interdictor) features 2 engines in tie fighter, yet we see it with 3 of them in XWA...

Your imput, gentlemen?