Quote:In addition, making the standalone price around 1 Billion credits will require MANY more trade runs before the ship is completed. Thus, giving the capship building process a sense of realism.
Static pricings wouldn't work. You'd just have people buying all Battleships really. No one's going to trade up 1 billion credits just to buy a Destroyer when there's a better ship for the same price. I'm assuming that's what you had in mind with your proposal.
Quote:Excuse me, but I have a legitimate reason to have a Kusari Destroyer for Richard Walters' craft of choice. Attempting to force independents to join factions in order to get to their RP-necessary ship is, to be blunt (that's all I can manage, bear with me), silly. Perhaps having to apply for a "heavy" would work, but still.
.. And that "legitimate reason" is what, exactly? You stole it?
Kusarians are probably the most elitist, purist lawful group in the Freelancer setting - can you honestly justify them simply "giving" a Destroyer away to a random nobody? Unlikely. Militaries (especially paranoid ones, like the KNF) are not going to give away a destroyer (or any combat ship for that matter) for any amount of credits. It just doesn't happen, seriously.
Moreover, I can't see how any ship can be labelled as being "RP-necessary."
