' Wrote:Umm, are you aware what's the actual cost in credits and time of building a base that can produce a cloak? And the tech itself? Do you think there are pirate factions that can rival any mining or trading faction in terms of actual ingame building capacity?
Those toys aren't like a CAU8 that you go back and forth or shoot rocks while watching youtube, and dang, you bought one. It takes a huge team effort to build a base that's not blown away by the first passing winds. "Mass production" is a word I would avoid.
Leave those cloaks be. We can let a few blue messages go for the fun of constructable super-expensive toys. And we can't expect that only us, and not our enemies will have them. Dun' like pirates? Go make a jumping Battleship or so.
Not talking about in-game mechanics here, I'm talking about in roleplay.
And I actually have a fair bit more pirate/unlawful ships than I do military ships, kthnx. It's not like I harbor some sort of resentment for them just because I'd want for them to actually be sensible in roleplay and in gameplay.