Guns pulled from wreck OORP?

[Ironwatsas]

If you can use looted guns, we would all see very much PvP oriented loadouts. In RP, your character has pride in his faction's weaponry: to him, they are superior to all else, even if you, the player, know otherwise

While that may be true, I can see a more practical issue with mechanical compatability. Because a faction's weapons are usually tailor made for the shiptypes said faction commonly uses, then adding weapons from a completely diffrent origin source would likely cause compatability issues with a ship's power couplings and fire control systems. While it would always be possible to mount outcast weapons on a corsair ship and vice versa, it would probably take a degree of modification of the weapon or the ship.

There's also the issue of replacement parts and maintnince. Where are you going to get the quantum tubes for your Tizona Del Cid mounted on your hessian fighter when it gets irradiated flying about Omega-11? Ask the corsairs nicely?

However, I'd see in cases where the potential benefits of a weapon outweigh the costs of fixing it up to work with your ship, Codename or Nomad weapons for example, or in situations where a class of weapons are specifically designed to be backwards compatable with a vase veriety of shiptypes, as in the case of civilian weapons, the modifications nessiscary would be worthwhile (though in the latter case, most civilian weapons are outclassed by their faction contemperaries).

Personally, I always tend to use weapons approrpiate to my ship unless I have access to codename weapons. This includes nomad weapons, as they are slow firing and a pain when you have to go through all the red tape to be able to use them without getting arrested.

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