John Xenir said:
Non warband Star wars mod did it in the way that towns were planets and no location terrain was space. So I thought of this:
Now that the sea navigation and battles are almost standard in mods thanks to certain modders, you could treat sea as space (with appropriate texture) and the party icons, would be various spaceships in starwars universe. Walkable terrain would be planets. Towns places of interest. All this must be properly done, I mean, the planets looking like planets, terrain having texture of planets you want to visit. I don't know if thats possible, but if it does, it will allow traveling on more planets without having almost every party encounter in space.
Space battles would be like current sea battle, only you replace those galleys with sci-fi spaceships.
Thats true but with the current sea battles, you usually board the other guy's ship or visa versa, via access through wooden planks or the like, at least from the few warband mods using sea battles that I've played. Now the problem with this versus space is, you cannot board in the same way, so you'd have to use 1 or 2 of a few options, none of them easy, you'd have to implement some sort of flight combat simulator themed in a sci fi like setting, or you'd have to make the ability to board via those boarding escape pod like things (cant remember what their called) which actually penetrate the hull of the ship and open a hatch to release the attackers upon the victim vessel. Both of these would be difficult to achieve if not impossible. As much as I'd like the idea of reliving my SWG glory days, running around in a YT-1300 or a VT-49 Decimator kicking some serious ass in space, I don't see this happening, but I would be more than happy to be proven wrong.