"So you want to buy a capital-class vessel" Discussion thread

[Akumabito]

Maybe it should be rephrased: You can't waltz into a shipyard and buy a fully outfitted Battleships complete with fuel, a maintenance contract, some kind of monstrous insurance policy, a crew, and a military commission. At least, not in any country that has the resources to produce notable numbers of capital ships.

You could if you really wanted to and had the money to do so, but unlike the fictional world of FL there is no demand for warships.

[n00bl3t]

It sickens me, how easy it is for an OORP player to pick up a cruiser and go whore about. In that regard capital ships are far to easy to accuire, IF for example you would need full guard rep to buy one. The trader would have to get, Millions for the ship and equipment, buy a fighter, do gazillion missions, that would automaticly fix his rep to what is appropriate, and finaly he could buy that cap ship. This should be the bare minimum. In real life, you can't just waltz in a shipyard and buy an Aircraft carrier... Fairly simple... Why is it allowed here?

If all you're suggesting is a full guard rep then I could semi-support it.

Ships are available for sale in real life, even to civilians. However they remove most, not all, of the weapons off it. The USS Iowa, commonly used as an example of how people just can't go out and buy the big stick, is currently stricken and available for donation to a museum, etc.

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.

[n00bl3t]

Maybe it should be rephrased: You can't waltz into a shipyard and buy a fully outfitted Battleships complete with fuel, a maintenance contract, some kind of monstrous insurance policy, a crew, and a military commission. At least, not in any country that has the resources to produce notable numbers of capital ships.

I doubt any Outcast has an IC policy.

Edit: Doh. I didn't mean to double-post. *Sigh.*

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.