The Hessian cruiser has higher stats at face value - that's why so many Outcasts buy it. They don't take one look at the ship's RP, or their own.
The days of Outcast pride are gone - when they forego their own tried and true Destroyer design for a cruiser designed by mining pirates/revolutionaries who have a mutual hatred for corsairs.
That's basically the only reason why there's an Outcast-Hessian alliance - they have a mutual hatred of the Corsairs. The Hessians need their cruisers to defend the open Omega space - not to be sold to Outcasts who have their own design and areas of operation. It makes no sense for the Hessians to be pumping out these cruisers for their "allies". The RHA own Omega 54, the system producing the cruisers, and we certainly aren't friendly with outcasts in our territory. They better have a good reason to be in the Omegas/Rheinland, and "going to get a hessian cruiser" is not one of them.
There may be an alliance in-game and in-RP, but it is certainly not roleplay for 9/10 outcast cruisers to be Hessian Cruisers. In the RHA chat, we frequently show instances of outcasts owning hessian cruisers. In fact, one hessian cruiser was hessian guard ID'd, until I saw him in Alpha with an Outcast Guard ID. He had bought the Hessian Guard ID to fool our members, then when they logged off he went to become an Outcast. Something is clearly wrong.
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Quote:There is also an established alliance between said two factions that allows for this use of ships so it is in RP.
If this is the case, I'm going to order all RHA members to sell their ships and buy Outcast Dreadnaughts instead. We both hate the Corsairs, and the Outcasts will love us to kill them with our shiny new ships.
So here I think we have some pretty great reasons for getting rid of the Outcast-Hessian alliance. Seems like all it's being used for is a couple of powergamers to use Hessian gear.
I think it would be quite nice to add a line to the end of the Cruiser's infocard like the Barghest has. Or change Hessians/Outcasts to white on the chart.
' Wrote:There is also an established alliance between said two factions that allows for this use of ships so it is in RP.
No it is not, when there is in RP not enough Hessian cruisers for the Outcasts to equip their entire navy with. And so far as it was confirmed below there are simply next to none Outcast dessies floating around, and a whole navy worth of Hessian ones... which I am afraid is OORP.
If you really need the infocard to state this, then it can be amended for the next beta.
The attacking party didn't provide any evidence of trying to ask about RHC users RP and merely assumes that they are OORP because they don't follow their holy image of proper RP.
Right, I'm going to ask every Outcast with a Hessian Cruiser about the reason they got the ship (in character). I'll post the results here when I get them.
' Wrote:Right, I'm going to ask every Outcast with a Hessian Cruiser about the reason they got the ship (in character). I'll post the results here when I get them.