(09-09-2014, 12:47 AM)Omicron Wrote: Corsairs already are the single most gifted discovery faction in terms of shipline, comparable only to House of Liberty as a whole. Many, many more would wish for having LF, HF, 2 VHF, bomber, freighter, 3 transports, gunboat, cruiser and two battleships.
To be fair, Order just don't have a Heavy Fighter, freighter, and 3 transports ( also, 3? I'm pretty sure there is the 3ker and thee 4.3ker that came out recently ). What's your point? ))
Also, I would say give Outcasts a Carrier, make the Sarissa something usable, rather then being the less wanted when someone sees the wonderful Ransuer.
The Order have a HF. The Bastet.
And The Corsairs and Outcasts have the same amount of stuff. The Sairs just have 2 transports that I have never seen be used.
What? No! No more capital ships for the pirate factions! If anything, Id vote for killing Legate/Ranseur so Sairs/Casts dont use dreads because medBS is max what they can afford to make. But its too late to remove them so just dont make new capships.
I don't think the lack of resources is a proper argument - they have several planets at their disposal, and those have a tendency to be rich in minerals.
If anything, It would be a question of whether or not the faction in question have sophisticated enough technology to construct a Carrier, and well Zoners got one so by that measuring stick, it should be within reason for any faction to have a Carrier, more or less.
EDIT: Another thing is that Carriers in real life (the ships) are ridiculously difficult to construct. Few countries have them. Russia got 1. China got 1, and they had to go out and buy an ex-Soviet hull from Ukraine because they had no clue how to build one. In Disco, everyone can construct carriers, it seems. Zoners got them, even though a Carrier is supposed to be the ultimate fleet superiority vessel. That's a shame - it should only be GRN, Rheinland and Liberty that should field carriers IMO. In real life there is a total number of 20 carriers in service on this planet, 10 of which are 'Murican. They are rare.
Or alternatively: Make the Zoner Carrier an open use ship for all battleship factions so everyone can field carriers.
No faction may have more than two battleship-grade vessels. Hypothetically, if the Corsairs were to receive a Carrier, it would have to replace one of the existing battleships. Since there aren't even any ship submissions for it, it's not going to happen any time soon.
(09-09-2014, 05:51 AM)Thyrzul Wrote: A super-duper carrier is obviously more cool than feeding that god damn starving populace.
+1
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