This whole matter with Bristol not being able to sell their ship is a problem that was poorly handled inRP too.
I mean let's talk from the perspective of a company who designs a ship that is well aware of its combat capability. It's not the best, it's not the worst, but its also not your run of the mill cargo runner either. That means authorities might have an issue to handle a potential illegal goods runner, because after all, nobody can guarantee people will use the shippies they got just for the best of intentions. So from the perspective of a Government who allegedly wants to secure its citizens/laws/borders whatever, they can be really concerned of seeing these beefy little battle transports going around and potentially purchased by anyone.
The licensing imo could've been handled -before- even thinking to produce such ships. Do you make your tank first and call the authorities later about it? Or you get the necessary permits to be allowed to make you "quasi-military-grade" transport ship?
From that POV, I'm not sure if Bristol even contacted any of the House governments regarding this topic. "Look fellas we're creating this cool new military-grade vessels, we need you to give us the proper documents to have it authorized/registered."
So the reaction of the Houses is somewhat justified, i don't know what you all are on about.
The licensing system should be simple and straightforward. Recurring fees is pretty dumb. The companies that are not government aligned and want to produce military-grade hardware (or borderline), should pay a proper one time fee for it. That's it. Prices for these new ships asked, were 20+ mil credits. From 2-3 ships made, a company can't pay a modicum fee?
Also the argument about "Not paying the Government because people don't log." is stupid. It's all about Roleplaying. For whoever is concerned you can have the Admins make a "RP-BANK" account and pay that. These are irrelevant details.
I'm not arguing how the ships were developed, balanced as I've seen others proposing even altering their configurations. Maybe that's too much, but I just pointed out some RP-wise perspectives that if done correctly and right, perhaps we didn't had this conversation in the first place
Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. - Sovereign
