It is saddening to see only Serenity (and sometimes, BWT but very rarely) in hands of Freelancers because they are the biggest cargo capable ships. It's very rare to see e.g. Percheron, or even the forgotten Bumblebee. Big Dragon and Behemonth is a very good example of House Ships that can looks good, have 3200 cargo and isn't a total failure. Liberty and Bretonia lacks alternative for Serenity, but also even Big Dragon and Behemoth are not really seen in hands of many pilots.
Therefore, why not to introduce House Tech or just House-stylized Sirius Civilian 3600 cargo transports then?
This little bird went to sleep forever. So long.
Thank you for everything.
The reason why Serenity is the most used ship by Freelancer is the greatest amount of cargo space available with their ID using legal means.
In Disco in 99,9% cases (of transports) it's the cargo space that matters, not the look of the ship, nor it's usefulness in battle. That's why most of the ships are either Serenity, Kujira (cheap 4,7ker) or 5kers, or rarely smaller transports used by people who haven't grinded enough money for the list above.
TL;DR Point of this thread is to discuss possibility of bigger variation of 3600 cargo transports. I would find it awesome if we had House-styled alternatives (not just Serenity, Serenity everywhere) and it is possible to have such ships, as we have e.g. Kusari Explorer which is actually a Sirius Civilian techcell.
Granting and admiring @Swallow's work, it's just I see Serenity way too often. I don't even see BWT these days.
(07-22-2017, 11:20 AM)Croft Wrote: Wouldn't it be a simpler job to increase the hold of the House transports to around the 3.5k mark? Probably be less work to resize than remake.
The serenity is a sweet ship and regularly puts my BWT to shame but they are really the only choice for the discerning freelancer/smuggler.
It would require remodelling ships as well to balance the ships out. While it's not really an issue in case of Big Dragon or Behemoth, Percheron and Mammoth are small and agile and are meant to be like that - and I'd hate to change them from small and agile ships into resized fat pigs (Perchy is just awesome for any system with asteroid fields, for example, due to shape and size). Bretonian Civilian and Liberty Civilian needs new models, while Rheinland and Kusari require just minor adjustments. I mean, Kusari have one small 'light' transport and one small 'heavy' transport. That's why I point out additional ship.
I think, but that's just a proposition, that Liberty and Bretonian 3600s would be somewhat based on gunboats - reasonable, taking into account that both fight against Gallia - and Gallia's 3ker is basically remodified gunboat, according to the infocard.