' Wrote:Yes, it should have one, and it should be used as a reconnaissance platform. (Apologies, I thought I did make the clear in my last post.)

Apologies, but if RL is not FL, why would HALO be FL?

Unfortunately, people will still attack it, so yes, it does need the means for it to defend itself, however, I would support it having less guns.

' Wrote:reconisasance platform.. it shouldnt really be in a place that its gonna easily be found by enemies to beginwith- say place it 15k above the playing plane if you must.

if you intend it to be an intelegence and reconisasance platform, then it would need to remain hidden and undetected, and that would be its greatest weapon -_- if you want it battle hardy i sugest you use a battleship and use lsf tags and do the same thing out int he open, as you imply.
generlally it would have escorts to protect it. shields and a strong hull.

i discourage it having any major fire power to discourage lol what type of people trying to take it into battle at all. maybe transport turrents at most and make everything else capital ship grade, but the design of the ship you would want to be stealthy, or at least as stealthy you can make a cruiser while maintaining liberties basic designs.
as for your other statement "Apologies, but if RL is not FL, why would HALO be FL?"
only thing i feel appropriate to inform you is HALO =/= RL and RL =/= military in space.

i only presented the excerpt of halo as a model, because it gives the best idea of how a central intelegence oriented cruiser might be designed and used- its greatest defence is to be undetected.

in that book series, that cruiser never exchanged fire in battle.

so like i said, if you want a lsf cruiser that can participate in effectivly exchanging fire, i'd sugest using a cruiser that already exists and using it with your lsf tags

' Wrote:Reconnaisance and research role-playing platform. Player-controlled. *Facepalm.*

It would be SRP-only.

I already said that, if you bothered to read my other post in this thread, I was just pointing out that the RL argument held little water anyway.

Right.

We do, however, there are some problems with it, as I already explained in my previous post. XD.

' Wrote:all i can really say is, why not have somthing like that?

for example, looky at this.
http://discoveryfl.com/wiki/index.php?title=Researcher_ID
and theres a ship or two withouot guns that cater to the use of using that id.

in otherwords, somthing like this would have a strict roleplay purpose anyway. non competitive.
and seeing as there's the researcher id and similar, i dont see why my opinion deserves a facepalm.:P

' Wrote:Something like what?

' Wrote:i thoguth about looking up a facepalm picture but i'm not gonna @_@

we(you and i) have been discussing: if the Liberty security force wants a Cruiser for an intelegence platform, a possibility would be to base it on roleplay, rather than anything competitive since theirs already cap ships that fill the pvp needs of Liberty.

you facepalmed that idea.

' Wrote:And if their last two prototypes were stolen, this would be kept in secrecy and there would be very few prototypes made. That RP would fit the highly-restricted nature of it, yes?