Liners.

[Drake]

The Lux Liner is more of a cruise ship... It's huge. Not fast, not maneuverable, just huge.

I've heard that mounting gunboat weapons and shields on a transport makes that ship a gunboat, and can be pirated with capships... But what about freighters that can mount transport shields? Does that make them transports, and therefor illegal to pilot by people who are only allowed freighters?

Also, there are a number of transport ships that can mount gunboat shields, but not gunboat weapons (the Kusari "Beetle" along with a few others). Also, did anyone else know that the Behemoth can mount two gunboat forward guns? They can only fire one of them... And only once, but still... And it can't even mount gunboat shields or turrets.

Also, I once asked but never got an official answer... If mounting gunboat level equipment on a transport makes it into a gunboat... Does that mean Traders can't fly it?

We finally got an OFFICIAL answer from Igiss about how to classify a ship as a transport and not a freighter (anything with 500+ cargo), though I don't know if this has actually been put in the rules thread (I doubt it...). Maybe we could get an official answer to some of these questions, because honestly I don't trust anything told to me by anyone short of an admin, unless it's actually listed in the rules. Sorry to say it, but that includes Hoodlum.