Wel, thing is - in that cas you'd see such vessels everywhere. And I believe that might be a solution.
Generic, all-round civilian form, faction-specific skins, tweaked stats and respective infocards. Then again - One would expect more fom powerful Rheinland pirates.
' Wrote:I'm for it.
If Lane Hackers can have it, Unioners can have it. That simple.
And as well, if you look at the Outcasts and allies, you will see a LOT more ships then on the Corsairs side.
Dragons - have their own,
Hessians - have their own
Rogues - have their own
Hackers - have one too
Some zoners (that are pretty much on OC side) - have their own
Let's take a look at the Corsairs side.
Order - Have their own, pretty useless ships. (Nephtyss has too big hitbox)
That's all.
Balance needed please.
As for hessians, i must agree that Thor bomber is pretty.. well.. useless at least.
Bomber can't work as a bomber if it doesn't have the agility to dodge cap ship shots.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Funny how theres not this opposition when a ships made for the OC side of the fence.:P
So many have mentioned, how will a small group be able to build larger ships, than fighters.
I think a small gunship will not need a shipyard, just a kind of a bigger garage, to be build very slow and in a few numbers only.
No one is mentioning, how will a small group be able for maintenance works on bigger gunboats like the IMG or Corsair ones. To be in roleplay this is an important aspect of the smaller factions. Even if it is an imagination, because no ship in Freelancer is needing an "Sparking Plug" or "Oil" exchange.
And why not giving all smaller factions a gunship?
More work for Igiss:P.
Well... IM has built Singapore shipyards for the purpose of building those gunboats (and battlestars based upon zoner bueprints)
That's why I think the unioner faction of Disco should apply for a system and put some shipyard there. At least to justify the addition of their gunboats