I know you may not want to hear this but SWG had the best space combat ever. I tried SWTOR space the new pvp system... Honestly it sucks!
Want to bring more people into the game?
Make SWTOR space like SWG space.
Space ships could be flown by one person. BUT you had the option to invite people in your group into your ship.
as the battle went those people did the following.
1. Ship repairs, Running around the inside of the ship fixing the damage at engineering panels
2. CO-Pilot, controlled certain functions and boosted core energy etc.
3. GUN TURRETS! do I seriously have to explain this?
4. Ship about to explode? Excape pod!
Flowing space graphics. All I can do is say look up on U-Tube SWG Space combat.
its so beautiful.
I even think you could do even more with space than SWG did.
1. Guild Space Bases ( Able to edit inside and out by guild leader or appointed member of guild by Guild Leader)
a. Buy Different looks for the base (Orbital station, Battle star ship etc)
b. Buy Paint jobs for the outside and inside
c. Upgrade for the interior (Custom walls, furniture, floors, cealing, lights etc)
d. Have a Guild Trophy room that shows in game physical trophy's that can be moved around inside.
e. Collected items by the guild in hard mode and up instances like theamed furniture (Has to be a full guild member run to get items) This would help guilds drive more to work together and for raids.)
2. Luxury Space Ships that can be PLAYER HOMES! (Make these to where they can not be attacked)
a. A place where people can call home. (If people in space are having battles near players house the player can watch the fight and the people fighting can see inside the players house (Just like the yact from SWG)
b. add more items to shop like furniture , walls, paint etc.
c. collections from instances Theamed furniture
d. friends list so they can show off their home, editing privledges allowable by owner to friends. etc
3. New crafting profession
a. Spaceship upgrades, repair packs, repair droids.
b. space ship theamed furniture.
I have so many more ideas for space and for you to make money.. maybe you should hire me as a consultant
I bet I could rope in more subscribers that you would have to buy more servers.
(Not asking for a job just proving a point)
There is so much more I can not even put into words about SWG space. But I will say this.
Millions of people still play the SWGEMU (YES Millions) I know this because I am one of those that is waiting for them to put space back into the emitter which is late next year.
People in my guild there all agree with me and say that SWTOR Ground combat is the best! But it lacks seriously in space, and the only reason we are staying in the emitter is we are waiting for the space. If SWTOR would bring the space from SWG we all would drop the SWGEMU and play SWTOR all the time.
Why you ask? Becuase if SWTOR could do in space what SWG did it would not only kill Star Trek online, but pull many of the wow players that only play that game because SWG was closed.