Because people don't know how to use the IMG gunboat.
And yes, Scar, you definitely shouldn't be using a Hathor as mercenaries.
Get rid of that thing as soon as possible. Zoner gunboat would work, but you still need to ask them.
' Wrote:Because people don't know how to use the IMG gunboat.
And yes, Scar, you definitely shouldn't be using a Hathor as mercenaries.
Get rid of that thing as soon as possible. Zoner gunboat would work, but you still need to ask them.
Dont worry lol im not using the Hator, you are mistaking me with monsoon,i have all buget in a small junker van.
What about Liberty/Bretonia/Rheinland/kusari 's gunboat ?
' Wrote:Dont worry lol im not using the Hator, you are mistaking me with monsoon,i have all buget in a small junker van.
What about Liberty/Bretonia/Rheinland/kusari 's gunboat ?
They are military vessels. So the call would have to come from the relevant faction as to whether they would sell one to a merc. There isn't a gunboat available that won't come with strings attached.
If you don't mind going all-lawful, Bounty Hunter ID/IFF yourself and get an Orca or Bottlenose.
The Bottlenose is an amazing anti-fighter platform. It's got near-bomber turning and agility. With lots of firepower. You'll have to spend a lot on armor, though, because even a Universal Mark 8 will not protect you from a SNAC.
Orcas are a bit slower, but pack more of an anticapital punch.
' Wrote:If you don't mind going all-lawful, Bounty Hunter ID/IFF yourself and get an Orca or Bottlenose.
The Bottlenose is an amazing anti-fighter platform. It's got near-bomber turning and agility. With lots of firepower. You'll have to spend a lot on armor, though, because even a Universal Mark 8 will not protect you from a SNAC.
Orcas are a bit slower, but pack more of an anticapital punch.
Probably i'll fight against Imperators, is the most used ship for pirating in my zone.
Orca is really powerfull (front gun ftw) but is a punch in the eye lol
' Wrote:The Hathor is INCREDIBLY a stretch for a merc. What order personnel in their right mind would sell one of their technologically superior pieces of equipment to a sellsword like a merc, who for all the Order knows, could turn and use their own equipment against them.
Zoner Gunboat. NOT Hathor. Get over the less turrets and less firepower of the Zoner GB and get used to the fact that it's better in RP for a merc to have.
Else, as Bloodsword said, get a BHG Gunship/Gunboat. Although with the current climate of rp standards with the BHG, you may or may not have to ask permission (didn't check the biblical canon of the Tech Chart).
I would like to point out that without mercs, miners and traders have a really tough time getting to their destination without being robbed by a junker or other pirate with a gunboat, and as such we need to be properly fitted to combat these players. So we are not 'sellswords' as you put it, but really a safe refuge for the trading community, and help for lawful players contributing to houses by bringing much needed materials.
' Wrote:I would like to point out that without mercs, miners and traders have a really tough time getting to their destination without being robbed by a junker or other pirate with a gunboat, and as such we need to be properly fitted to combat these players. So we are not 'sellswords' as you put it, but really a safe refuge for the trading community, and help for lawful players contributing to houses by bringing much needed materials.
Doesnt mean a merc should be flying in a hator like your group does.
All I have seen in the last month is constant complaining about how pirates are using gunboats to rob. Mercenaries and pirate tags give them the right to fly a gunboat, so if there is such a problem, why not just remove this ability from their ID? We followed the rules, put a lot of time and effort into writing our bio http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=55954 (which explains how we got the Hathor), and nobody objected then. In a perfect world, possibly everyone would be able to keep every piece of technology they owned, but even in RL this doesn't happen. If we are expected to protect a convoy without ganking the poor pirate with 8 of us in fighters, we should be allowed to even the odds. Who says the Order had to give us the Hathor?