It might be cool to make, but I such a ship will generally be ignored, people not wanting to gimp themselves in this age of shooty-shooty. MAke it look junky, but for the love of god, dont make it weaker.
Junker salvager is one of the best junker ships so it wont look like a flying piece of junk.. But the recycler looks like a piece of junk made of different pieces of different ships..
' Wrote:Junker salvager is one of the best junker ships so it wont look like a flying piece of junk.. But the recycler looks like a piece of junk made of different pieces of different ships..
Errmmm It's actually nice.
And Waran looks like garbage along with it's description and it's the ship I use the most:)
I approach more with RP then PvP power..and I would like too see ships like that
Yes, but the waran dosent -fly- like garbage, since the only thign between a Waran and a barghest is the Extra Torpedo slot. Now, I am not saying they wont be used period, but it will certainly deter any casual intrest if they are significatly inferior.
You know, if they are statistically inferior, and priced appropriately, they could help spice up the game for newbies and people limiting themselves to a closed-economy setup, too.
Quite helpful since most of the Houses have some drastic gaps in ship power.
So I'd like a mix, myself - some that are as weak and cheap as they look, and some that look bad and may perform oddly (much stronger turning on one axis, perhaps, or an odd mix of weapon classes, or some other quirks) but are still competitive with top-end ships.
' Wrote:Yes, but the waran dosent -fly- like garbage, since the only thign between a Waran and a barghest is the Extra Torpedo slot. Now, I am not saying they wont be used period, but it will certainly deter any casual intrest if they are significatly inferior.
And shield;)
OT: IT wouldn't be used as much but it would come in handy RP-ing an old ship and such, as we're trying to make PvP balance we won't probably ever get it cause it will never be used enough as some new ship with stats like everything else and shiny look.
It won't work if the ships are weak. I'll give you a case in point. Let's use the Gitano, Junker light fighter. It's a good ship for rep fixing. It's also the only light fighter that the Junkers get. However, because it is very much a low end ship, nobody uses them for anything but rep-fixing. I have role-played in one, but I have never seen another do it. I'm not saying it hasn't happened, only that it's so rare that after a hundred hours playing with the Gitano I still hadn't seen another fly the thing for anything but rep-fixing.
The reason for this is simple. Most PvP is RP. By flying a ship that is unable to compete in the PvP battles you severely limit your RP options. In a Gitano you have two options when faced with PvP. Give in to the demands, or die. It's understandable, then, that nobody flies them for RP purposes. The same would hold for these ships if they were low end.
We don't need any more low end ships, the ones we have serve thier purpose. And, since they are disposable ships anyway, nobody keeps them for more than a day or two in-game. I'm not saying anything against having some rough looking models, just don't degrade the performance. Or, if you do degrade one capabillity, upgrade another to compensate.