I would have sworn I wrote this somewhere...  Anyways, I put this here so it would get seen faster...  This is just kind of an idea for navy improvement, something that would give us a real reason to wanna get IC's (pay per click would get used a lot more) and an all around good reason to wanna be in a fighter instead of using a gun in battle... 

    Imagine if you will, a kind of garage for space fighters, cruisers, and store houses for capital ships...  Now, the idea is to be able to add or take things off your ships, fighters, and all around space machinery.  So if I took my Viper into the shop and asked for some kind of weapons upgrade, like a new gun altogether for instance...  Where would I get it?  The Garage of course.  It'd be kind of like the Imperial center but slightly more complicated... 

    Why complicated...?  Cause it has to be.  If we just let everyone get some awesome equipment, there would be no challenges in the middle of a battle.  So if you really wanted a new weapon, before you could use the weapon, you'd have to get a series of equipment.  Like a new radar system, tracking system, and actually attaments to be put in your ship so that you could carry that weapon. 

    It wouldn't be directly connected to the Imperial Center, cause it isn't the Imperial center.  The IC is like Wal Mart where as the Garage would be more like a retailer shop in the front and a mechanics shop out back...  Of course the army could be included by being aloud to get things done to thier landspeeders and such... 

    What ya think?  It might take a while to make a page like that, but I'd be willing to do some of the searching for equipment and such as well as make up a few...

??
 
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*Flash Was Here...*
My Real Bebop: (=A=)

I asked for this before...kinda a mod shop.

Problem is, it's gonna be hell to build up as you have limits to how much you can mod a particular craft. 

But hell, if people want it and want to jump in, I am all for something like this.
 
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Prefect - Stormtrooper Corps
Administrator - Imperial Center

Or F-man's chop shop.
 
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Sith Adept Phoenix
TRN/SAD Phoenix/Training 2/VEDJ/VE/Lopen
"You need guys like me." - Tony Montana

Why only for the Navy? You could buy a speeder and have laser cannons fitted to it, in theory.
 
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Fishy theory:

Each ship/vehicle/whatever could have a number of 'upgrade slots', and each upgrade takes a number of slots, and has a benefit to the vehicle's statistics.
You could also have it in the Mechwarrior way where each vehicle has a mass limit, and you can easily overtop that without filling all the upgrade slots.
 
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I also have an idea.

We shoud have fuel, gas, oil, gun powder, ammo, sheild power and all that kind of stuff. If you wonted this to be almost real RPG thing it should be as real as possable. For example if you had a real speeder do you think it would last forever? And if we did do it, In First Galactic Bank when we click on our speeder and we have already brought fuel or watever, There should be a button and when you click it it refuels the ship. We should also have things that tell us how much fuel or fire-power we have and how much we need for it to at least get going.
 
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TRP/LCP Caleb/3SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE
"Beat me the heat"

Battletech has tons of interesting construction rules,  Battle Armor(did my VCMA by the out dated rules and it came up exactly where I wanted, need to get the current rules from someone), vehicles of all sorts, conventional and aerospace fighters, mechs, warships, and space stations.

I think that's everything they have design rules for.

I have design programs for just about all of them too if anyone likes.  Though that assumes we'll be using something along those lines.

It's all really complicated until you get used ot it though.

 
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Daishi Raptor VEN
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Ich bin hessliche amerikaner.
Nehmen mir zu dein frauen von vernunftig preis tugendhafte.
"And the sound of many heads hitting many solid objects was heard throughout the land." me

Actually, it is not currently being used.  Though you never know when it will so be careful when you make a purchase.

Alright, before this concept gets taken down a way-too-complicated road, let me point you all to this basic guide from GM Sarli over at the SWRPGNetwork, amongst other places.  WotC's Starships of the Galaxy takes this info a step further.  I also have a few sites (somewhere in my overflowing bookmarks) that breaks out some of this stuff in greater detail. 

This is all info that would be common to a player of the Star Wars D20 system.  If we are going to do this - and if we are ever going to get off our butts and build up an RPG group - let's focus on using info common to that strategy. That way no one has to a) reinvent the wheel, and b) learn a half dozen ways to do one thing.

There is usually a D6 starship builder here but it seems to be offline right now.  Hopefully the site isn't dead or something.  Just to give you an idea of how we might approach this concept.
 
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Administrator - Imperial Center

Your right, it would be too complicated to make up our own system anyways...  I took a look at that link, and I was wondering if you were refering to that link as the certain ships with certain weapons type of idea...  Or were you thinking along somethin else, but that one looks pretty complete...
 
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My Real Bebop: (=A=)

dez...i can never understand what the hell ur saying
 
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-=silly caucasian girl likes to play with samurai swords=-
-=pretty...what do we blow up first?=-
TRP/CPL kaMi/2SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR] [CoR] [IG]

He's is the Zed! A very unactive one too
 
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*DarkDragoons* - Vast Empire Army
TRP/SSG TK-112/2SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1REG/VEA/VE [CoR] [IH] [BoA]
"Winner of the let's imitate TK-112 for a day competition"
"You will obtain your ass upward! Fall your cranes and you will grip your noses! 0015 it is hour" - Faulty online translator

Here it is.

Don't know about the TIE drawing actually.

As for the walkers, I told you there wasn't a lot to work from and that you don't have to do it if you don't want to.

Probably the same reason no one else has over the years.
 
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Administrator - Imperial Center

craaaa.... not enuff memory to open Shockwave
stupid out-dated MAC, i'll open it somewhere else

Fury: Dun worry me enjoy drawing n modeling, like i said, me tired wiff video anyway.
        Progress:Body,... still doing the bones tho, not into armor plating yet.
        ran out of credits, cannot open msn from my pda, must .... use.... bb... ugh.


-Waiting for the next class-

gah! it distorted!
 
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The Comnet Hermit
-Raider Squad-
TRP/SGT Sniping101/CrazyRAIDERS/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][IH][BoA]
"A spanking new Athlon reduced to a Gameboy Emulator"- Gabe from Penny Arcade.
"As long as their is Space, Im going to stare off into it"-Garfield
I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my spout. When I see an ARC all short and stout, BOOM!  He flies through the hall and out. -anonymous

the killer bunny. . .yoda style. . .now theres something to fear. . .

i see then if its school property you should probably where a ski mask and gloves i've been there, except at that school all the PCs where like three years old and the macs where all new, and i still wanted smash them with my sledge.
 
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-Raider Squad-
TRP/SGT Sniping101/CrazyRAIDERS/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][IH][BoA]
"A spanking new Athlon reduced to a Gameboy Emulator"- Gabe from Penny Arcade.
"As long as their is Space, Im going to stare off into it"-Garfield
I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my spout. When I see an ARC all short and stout, BOOM!  He flies through the hall and out. -anonymous