But yes, you'd need some sort of Pilot Rescue point system for people to bother doing it. However, I think that with the speed of the fighters and the small size of the ejected pilot, it'd actually be quite difficult to spot and strafe you (except, of course, by slowing down).

More on-topic, I think such a map would be great. We already have freighters, cap ships and containers that can work as objectives, as well as several space craft. All that would be needed would be the space station (shipyard or repair yard) itself.

I'd actually like a system in which ejected pilots could eject

So the ejected pilot eject from the ejection pod?

I dont think it would work very well though. In the time it takes for a Lambda to get out and get people, 90% of the pilots on the map would be floating around in space while the remaining 10% are stuck in an eternal loop trying to outloop each other.

I think someone was told to eject in A New Hope. When he was chased by TIEs in the trench?

I'd actually like a system in which ejected pilots could eject, for then to hang suspended in space unti recovered (done by hitting 'e' near a transport such as a lambda class shuttle come to recover you). I think this would mean the pilot would have to be unarmed, though, and you would possibly have to attach floaters to the player model, which would make walking around in the hangar bay before boarding a fighter really strange.

Hmmm i never did hear anything about it...but it would be cool, but sadly..you could wait forever to be pick up, worse..you will be sitting duck for those TIE...

I'd actually like a system in which pilots could eject, for then to hang suspended in space unti recovered (done by hitting 'e' near a transport such as a lambda class shuttle come to recover you). I think this would mean the pilot would have to be unarmed, though, and you would possibly have to attach floaters to the player model, which would make walking around in the hangar bay before boarding a fighter really strange.

Well, if you fall for 5-10 minutes, at least that'd allow people to chase you.

N00b: Oh, darn, beeping tone, does that mean... oh, smurf, 4% hit points, bail!
[bails and starts to fall]
[keeps falling]
N00b: OK, this is taking its damned time. But at least I got away from that...
[looks up, sees TIE Interceptor bearing down on him]
N00b: Oh smurf...

Tie intercepter? id have the whole fleet after him.

N00b: Oh, darn, beeping tone, does that mean... oh, smurf, 4% hit points, bail!
[bails and starts to fall]
[keeps falling]
N00b: OK, this is taking its damned time. But at least I got away from that...
[looks up, sees TIE Interceptor bearing down on him]
N00b: Oh smurf...

Ok, no. I'd like to see dedicated troop transports, as well. I'm just saying that not being able to get out of a fighter -- while testing lagueriniere's map, for example -- can get really annoying.

Technically, if you stopped your fighter in the middle of empty space, you could probably get out of your fighter as well (and fall for 5-10 minutes). So, stopping/landing isn't necessarily a complete solution. It would stop the usual "Oh, no! My fighter's about to blow up, so I'll bail out! At least the enemy won't get another kill out of me..." thing.

it would be quite funny to see people jumping from their fighters.

Technically, if you stopped your fighter in the middle of empty space, you could probably get out of your fighter as well (and fall for 5-10 minutes). So, stopping/landing isn't necessarily a complete solution. It would stop the usual "Oh, no! My fighter's about to blow up, so I'll bail out! At least the enemy won't get another kill out of me..." thing.

The reason why you can't bail from fighters in FS at the moment is that, if you push 'e' in space you will fall for about 5-10 minutes before hitting an invisible wall.

Before you could press e and fall out of the capital ships. dunno if it still works

people use fighter as transport??? omg...their killing the fighter name...

Fighters and escape pods were the primary means of getting to ships and stations in GC .