Crewless BTL-B Y-wing...
Q: Why is this ship crewless? CG_M: Unlike the droid ships which really don’t have a separate pilot, the BTL-B Y-wing would normally have had a pilot but we ended up not including crew. There was...
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"Mox4;c-1998670" wrote:
I agree with OP 100%
Ships have always had crew, its an intrinsic part of that game segment. Saying that there's no need to introduce faceless crew is absurd, because this game is full of generics. One of the more popular factions, Imperial Troopers, is full of generics. And there's plenty of TIE fighter pilots, so I don't understand why we couldn't get a Clone Pilot, especially since it's an already existing model within the franchise, what with Episode 3 or Pandemic's Battlefront 2.
This basically sets the precedent of future ships not having crew if it's too much hassle to make a new toon or assign an existing one...
Even if the idea of a new character to gear up is too much to bare, then they could've made Echo or the new ARC trooper this ship's Crew. :/
On some level i have to wonder if this is tacit acknowledgement that relics + gear crunch means generic toom crew are no longer viable. Both in the sense that the ship would be too weak with sub g12 crew and in the sense that it's not worth the dev time to create crew you'd have to whale on to be viable (and i suspect they realize geo tb, GAS, and, eventually, Malak stretches most resources thin so all the non whales would probably not spend a penny on a generic toon with a trashy kit since they wouldn't have the resources to make viable).
