The Engine plugin will become usless at this rate.

[Lythrilux]

Ok, so a lot of us are loving how new engines look. For example UC engines on a Outcast ship which look nice. However the tech chart implementation that will be introduced soon will prevent stuff like this happening.
Lets not kid ourselves, once this happens people are going to stop bothering changing engines.
Why?
Why would I bother getting a 75% - 90% nerf on my ship for the sake of a cosmetic engine effect?
I know the dev team is looking at implementing unique engine stats, but keeping them faction restricted is either: A. going to make some factions OP B. Make some factions underpowered or C. Be a waste of a plugin anyway.
Therefore, I suggest we get rid of making all engines with different cosmetic effects faction specific, and introduce a bunch of generic faction (e.g civilian) engines that have different cosmetic effects and also have new stats which can give the player flexibility with the engines they use.

Thoughts?

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