Cost: 6 mil
Armour: 16 mil
Accessories: 11 mil
Guns: 5 mil.
Total cost: 37 mil.
Erm?
Gunboat:
Cost: 40 mil.
Armour: 16 mil (its a crappy one I know)
Acessories: 2 mil
Guns: 8 mil
Total cost: 67 mil
Non- civvy fighter:
Cost: 2 mil,
Armour: 16 mil,
Acessories (mines, mr, shield etc): 8 mil
Guns: 4 mil (if that)
Total cost:
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Yeah I know that a gunboat can take armour up to a cost of 850 mil.
So erm....
Why are civvy fighters so expensive to setup?
I mean hells you could buy a transport for that price. Your thoughts?
Point 1: the guns are so expensive cause they are premium guns
' Wrote:Codenames are rare. Or are meant to be rare at least.
Therefore they are expencive.
Unfortunatley everyone and they cat, and their cat's squeaky toy has codenames.
Nitram
Rare? I don't think so ... Prices of them are just a fashion that players made up. They aren't really hard to find either... and they are not so good even, except for players who's faction weapons lack fire rate (like it only has a 2.00 and an 8.66 , but nothing between.)
Back on topic, Civilian ships are cheap to set up if you use civilian weapons ... simple isn't it ?
[irony]What? why don't you use Flashpoints? You'll explode lots sure, but they are cheap! And civilian! And anyhow, you expect a civilian ship to do any harm to anything? Its civillian, its supposed to fail![/irony]
Yes, non-military (I'll avoid the word civillian) combat ships are expensive to set up if you want decent guns. That won't change unless we get some decent widely availiable stuff. An alternative is to do enough RP with a faction and ask them for their guns. You could also use Zoner guns, which aren't that bad.
Civilian guns have been requested before, and have been rejected if I remember right. So every non-faction affiliated person will have to use Codies or other guns widely availiable.
Eh, gonna keep it short:
Codenames are not the solution. Like it or not, we -Do- need better Civilian Class 9 (And even 8) Guns. Why, you ask? Because not everyone flies VHFs! Some use Civi HFs and LFs too, and those, have to either get close enough to a faction to use their guns, or guess what? They have to use Splashpoints!
And well, Codenames are expensive because you're paying someone else to get it for you, If you go and loot em yourself, they'll be Free!
I find it hard to beilieve that no civilian scientists would manaage to try develop a set of guns (they are only surrounded by other peoples guns etc)
To make money.
Sadly when I last looked on thw wiki to try find codey locations I found nuttin:(QQ
Scientists need funding to do research. As far as I know there's not "coalition of civilians" or something to fund that research. It's funded by governments and companies. And they like to keep their shiny toys to themselves.
Made me a freelancer a while ago. never even though about getting a VHF on it actually. But I filled a small RP request to a faction and it got accepted and now I fly around earning by bounties and escorts. I made 102mill in uh 2 weeks or so with just bounties and especially escorting.
So my conclusion:
It's very simple to get a proper armed civie cheaply. But you'll have to RP for it.