Restricting codenames

[Jihadjoe]

In most instances I choose not to use codes, as frankly they ain't all that great. The energy useage is unbelievable, and the only fighters I use that has them I only turn them on if I'm jousting someone.


I use codes (2 cerberus on one of my RoS sabres, and 2 hammerfalls on my merc's RT) and they are usefull guns. However they're not really that good. Their projectile speed doesn't sync with much apart from Corsair guns and nomads and they are frankly quite hard to hit with, being slow firing and all, and often having annoying graphics that somehow mess my aim.

In terms of roleplay I got the Hammerfalls for my merc as I didn't want to make anything on the ship faction specific, yet still needed some firepower. I looked at the ship that the Hammerfall comes from (a zoner or BHG in nomad space I think) anddecided based on that.

The Cerbs for my OC are from either rogue ship in the Yukon system (blackbart) or an OC fighter in Alpha... so they fit an outcast or allied rather well...

I do think that there should be certain guidlines about who can use which codes, but they shouldn't be heavily enforced, as there should be room for flexibilty with that. They are after all prototype guns, and when I see that rather than reading "PROMETHEUS", I see "SOME RANDOM PROTOTYPE GUN I'VE PROBABLY NEVER SEEN BEFORE"

However I do think that too many people use them, that as they are experimental and rare they should be rare...

I also think on a side note that the SA and LPI are very hard done by in the weapons dept... I mean, Vengeances really really suck badly and I won't even start about magma hammers...

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