(04-20-2015, 03:51 PM)CTE Incorporated Wrote: Both questions are good to be honest.
@Thyrzul
I have been thinking about something connected to the ship dealing section of the forum, in which CTE would be given orders for a bit higher price than you would buy and equip it yourself. In exchange for that however, every CTE ship would be equipped, outfitted and moved into desired destination. In short: you pay, we assemble & deliver - rather than doing it yourself. As it comes up to the price, it wouldn't cross 10 million of profit for CTE in the most expensive examples, such as delivery of gunboat to the unlawfuls for example..
@FynnMcScrap
Now that's a very good question here. I haven't thought out this up, however I believe Freeports might be equipped with small assemble areas, because vessels from Griffin to Kestrel are small enough to be assembled in such small station. Yet problem arises with Civilian Gunboats, but I believe this matter goes for the point I've made out in the backstory for the CTE Incorporated: they could be assembled in the house space as they are the biggest and the most lethal vessels that could be aquired from CTE.
I'm open to all suggestions of course.
I like the idea of setting up and delivering ships, even if I do not expect it to be done frequently. As for ship jards...: There are several stations around that have a single assembly pod, like Invergordon SP in Inverness ( ok, Junker station ) and such.
Im not sure wich Zoner bases are built like that though.
Still keeps me thinking about where your production sites are.
I like the idea of a group of keen engineers and developers not bound to big corporate setting still developing their own , close to customer and economic designs. And building them whereever they can, perhaps even mooving from one site to another. But alas, I always love to cheer the underdogs ;-)
I know you are proud of building new ships, but if you need spare parts, PremScrap, or perhaps ore, diverse alloy or manifold deliveries : place a call, we will be happy to deliver.
And if you have a good background making it plausible that you can handle high-tech refitting or other such reworking of ships to fit the forum description of a SRP rewirk for a ship ( lets say the reworking of a future civilian carrier into a medical evacuation vessle for Tinkers Ambulance fleet for excemple, or the overworking of a Royal Liner into a mobile Hospital ) I will be sure to ask you too, this giving us both an opportunity for some fine forumlancing.
Keep on thinking big : doing high quality and dedicated Forum and inGame RP could make you a good faction to contact if you want something done for a SRP, as another suggestion.
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I only really looked into this after you guys contacted Bowex, and I have to say I was a little surprised when you did (inRP and OOC). Namely because so far as I can tell, the CTE line is a design series, and not produced by any one company or group.
Why, you've done my job for me by listing all of the different CTE infocards here. 'Produced by different groups and corporations', 'Zoner designers', 'Libertonian design'. They're open market designs produced locally by a huge variety of sources.
I mean, it'd make sense for there to be groups that make their money specifically catering to the manufacturing of CTE ships, but to claim to be the sole designer is frankly odd. But the point that concerns me more is the fact that if you contact someone and tell them that you've been selling them all their ships for a long, long time, that's basically borderline powergaming.
I was happy to RP with you guys anyway, as you can see from the response, but I feel with most factions you'd get a lot further by asking them if it's okay first.