Civilian Gunship Idea V2

[Luis]

Yup. In a few debris fields you can see the remains of whole Battle ship hulls,but nooooooo..... We cannot produce a cap ship.

All I have to say is.....'thats life'

[Lance_Uppercut]

Ever other GB in the game is a faction gunboat. So it should be completely worthless, Correct?
Face it guys, expecting people to use underpowered ships/guns dosent work. Expect anyone who wants a fair shot at a fight to ignore it then.

Pretend I put this in bold, 72pt font:

Not everyone in a capship needs to fight with it.

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::The Pennsylvania Liberation Force

[Lunaphase]

By that logic navys should never need to fight or pirates never need to take down a trader.

Oh wait.


Mercenaries need gunships, its a reality. Everyone complains about escorts and the lack of, but then those same people also refuse to allow the escorts to have anything to ESCORT WITH. Guys, stop trying to ruin the fun of everyone who doesent wish to play a role thats as straightfoward as a mathmatical line.

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[munsan]

i dont get it this hole game is based on freelancer, for gods sake thats even the name of the game. so why want let the freelancer get a gunship already... its almost like some big force out there making it impossible:crazy: there been how many post about this subjekt only give it up the freelancer will get the gunship one way or othere, or they will just keep spaming ship request from faction till this server dies :laugh:i know its hard to come up with a decent story and what not... i have an idea say like Trent after he save the galaxy he got what billion credits for saving our a**s, say he creat a band of freelancer and use that credit to make a gunship old designe or somthing. there short story.


***sry for the flame and poor english writing am still going English A at school....;)****

[Thexare]

By that logic navys should never need to fight or pirates never need to take down a trader.

Oh wait.
Mercenaries need gunships, its a reality. Everyone complains about escorts and the lack of, but then those same people also refuse to allow the escorts to have anything to ESCORT WITH. Guys, stop trying to ruin the fun of everyone who doesent wish to play a role thats as straightfoward as a mathmatical line.

If you need to kill the pirate before it kills the trader, you're escorting wrong.

You go ahead of the trader.

You know how the NPCs escorting traders always stay with the transports? You ever notice that even in an equivalent ship, you could destroy the transport anyway (much easier before they got shields admittedly)? Yeah, it's like that whether we're dealing with Starfliers and Daggers or Eagles and Barghests.

I'm not objecting to a commercially-produced gunship, quite the opposite really. But you can be a successful escort in a Starflier if you're doing it right.

[Lunaphase]

thats really not the point. The point is that pirates and lawfuls can get gunboats with minimal rp, yet factions refuse to give their gb's out to practically anyone even with RP that makes theoriginal faction proposal look like a lolwut.

Mercenaries need gunships. They are long range, armored, and good for exploration. The ku explorer is already one such type, but for those not kusari, we need another option.

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[ivan.able]

well specialy when in war time going on gunship are more wanted than ever house faction should hire merc, and should pay good credits to send them in front line less risk to thier own ships that is. still with no fire power mercs cant do much in this sitiuation, even though there is good RP and lots of profit to get from this boring war. I only see house faction fighting house faction its getting realy boring ... we need big ship to be part of war even if its only for profit.

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[Ables_Aces]-Ivan.Able

Second Officer Master of Arms
Corporation Wing Commander
1st Seek&Destroy "'Primary Corporation'' - Assault Wing
'' Elder''


The [Ables_Aces]- Corporation
''Professional Mercenary Services''

[Kazinsal]

I've got it!

This entire want for a civ gunship model is fueled by the fact the Zoners don't let mercs use Conferences anymore!

Simple solution, give 'em back to us.

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Retired, permanently.

[kuth]

I've got it!

This entire want for a civ gunship model is fueled by the fact the Zoners don't let mercs use Conferences anymore!

Simple solution, give 'em back to us.

The simple solution isn't always the best.

Though a solution that is a tad more complicated than what you suggest would do fine.

Use the old Zoner gunboat model as a commercial gunboat for private military companies not aligned with other factions (aka civilian, though people read to much into the word civilian.)

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Lurker

[AdamantineFist]

Well, if we classify it as a "mercenary gunboat", then it's entirely possible for it to be rather different from the rest of the civilian line. Personally, I think it looks interesting. It does almost seem to have Corsair influence in the design, though.

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