' Wrote:I will address your first point...first. IND is only loosely affiliated with IC, we have our own ID and our own diplomacy. You'll notice every faction that has it's own ID has ships, but that is not why we should have ships. When we took over Renzu, Tanker and I got to talking about the rp potential of it, and how we could play it out. My idea is to have a modeler who is interested in making the ship as well as rping the role of the ship designer in rp on the forums. Kyte jumped the gun a bit due to the server being down and wanting to give people something to do. When Tanker and I discussed it, we discussed two ships we were interested in having built in this way, the first being a more legal version of the P-trans, or a IND version of the C-trans/Shire. The second was an obscenely ornate and overly showy liner, not for trading but as a status symbol, much like the royal liner, that is not intended to be traded with. I dont see this liner being exclusive to IND, but instead something that has liner like stats, but a Battleship like price, something that is so overpriced that only people who have more money than god would buy it to fly around in....fits the bill for IND.
There is nothing particularly "wrong" with the ships available to IND, although it is fairly hard to find a good ship that is house neutral, but the same could be said for any faction, whats wrong with the eagle or the roc? Why do we need different ships for factions? Why did we need house specific 5k transports? What was wrong with the A-train? Why do the Outcasts need two battleships? Or the Corsairs? What was wrong with the Osiris? Different ships bring flavor to the discovery universe, how lame would it be if everyone spent their time flying around in the same ships as everyone else? Everyone in Eagles and Rocs and A-trains? Doesn't sound exciting to me, this is why we want IND ships, to rp the development and production of said ships, and to add more flavor the the game and community.
Fair enough. I can easily see a big, rich corporation making a fancy liner to show off their wealth.