' Wrote:Why not adding various types of ships (not anything flyable, of course) as purchasable commodities instead of creating a new type of hauler just for it? Sure it'd seem impractical to see a Train with 5 fighters in its hold but adding new commodities is much easier. Scaling in FL is retarded anyway.
shipyards build ships. these ships are relevant to the house they are in. Why would bretonia need a delivery of waran bombers? they wouldnt, so the ships would only be delivered within the confines of the house.
This means we would have to keep the profits low, or we would have just created a new nb>nt run. Ships are EXPENSIVE items. there is almost no point in buying 5 ships at two mill each, and tracking across three trade lanes, and selling them for a 0.2% profit. The initial outlay is very high, and the risk of losing 10mill to an unscrupulous sort would scare most peeps away from buyin this commodity.
I'd buy them though, the RP potential of getting a bunch of RM to escort my cargo of waran bombers from <insert shipyard here> to new berlin...... they wouldnt want pirates stealing teh ships, nor a raid by the LN for the purposes of espionage/sabotage.