Dragon gunboat loadout

[atm999]

I'm relativley new to both freelancer and discovery in general. One of my characters is a blood dragon tagged/IFF dragon gunboat. I originally bought two dragonfly missile turrets and order mk1 gunboat turrets for it from the dragon home base, but I have been told that the order turrets are not proper, so I have two questions: 1) Why would the home base (and guard bases) of a faction sell turrets that they shouldn't use? and 2) Which normal turrets should I use, because I don't want to get only dragonfly missile turrets and be a missle whore. Thanks for your help!

[Derkylos]

If you need "normal" turrets for it, get Outcast or Zoner (Zoner may be more fitting for a Dragon).

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[Saigo.Watanabe]

Use Kusari Gunboat turrets, that what i use, and you won't get told off for using them as dragons dont have much else choice to.

And the placement reason? god knows.

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[Petersen]

1) Why would the home base (and guard bases) of a faction sell turrets that they shouldn't use? and
2) Which normal turrets should I use, because I don't want to get only dragonfly missile turrets and be a missle whore. Thanks for your help!

to answer 1: selling locations of weapons in the current mod version are just messed up and do not represent what anyone can use on their ship, on many bases of one faction the weapons of the arch enemy faction are being sold. after all what i know that will soon change with the new mod version until that we have just to ignore these enemy weaponry on our home base. it can be very confusing, especially for new players.

to number 2: any turrets that are produced by dragons themeselves or direct allies of the dragons can be mounted on your ship. just go and check out some bases of your faction and those of your allies for turrets you might like.
additonally there are some "generic" turrets that say that they are built by one faction, but can be used by everyone because it would just give too much power to one faction if they were the only ones being allowed to use them. these generic turrets are: gunboat battle razor, gunboat inferno cannon.

i hope everything i wrote is correct and i could shed some light into your weapons problems.
other than that: welcoome to disco, play fair, have fun

[Derkylos]

Use Kusari Gunboat turrets, that what i use, and you won't get told off for using them as dragons dont have much else choice to.

And the placement reason? god knows.

While you (Probably) won't get any flak for using 'em, mounting Samura weapons on a Dragon ship really doesn't seem right...OC turrets are sold in the Guard system, and Zoner turrets on FP 11 (not that far from Chugoku).

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[Saigo.Watanabe]

Actually no, i have had a conversation with Del a couple of months ago talking about it, when dab got sanctioned for using normal kusari weapons.

Kusari Gunboat turrets are fine to use.

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[Lanakov]

That's right,but Kusari weapons and ships are manufactured both by Kishiro and Samura.And they're not really in good terms with the blood dragons.
But,of course,those are accurate RP details,so well,as you said they're fine to use.

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[atm999]

Use Kusari Gunboat turrets

Kusari Gunboat turrets are fine to use.

So let me get this straight, I can use the guns of a faction listed as hostile on the wiki, but not those of a neutral faction? (I'm not arguing, I just want to understand the logic.) Also, how would I buy Kussari turrets (if I can indeed use them) as I am hostile to both police and navy as I should be?

[darthbeck]

i dont know about kusari turret's. but i just used the gunboat defense turrets..
(i too have a blood dragon gunboat)

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[MrHeadphones]

So let me get this straight, I can use the guns of a faction listed as hostile on the wiki, but not those of a neutral faction? (I'm not arguing, I just want to understand the logic.) Also, how would I buy Kussari turrets (if I can indeed use them) as I am hostile to both police and navy as I should be?

Well, if you read a little into the Blood Dragon history, they were once part of the Kusari nation, and if you look at their ships, they're stolen versions of Kusari lawful ones, so why couldn't they steal the weapons too in RP? Also, although the Order is neutral, they are allied to corsairs who are definitely not neutral to the blood dragons' allies, so I guess that since there is almost no history binding those factions together, the order weapons can't be used (for your information, order turrets are also sold in the BAF guard system, which shows just how messed up the weapon placements are.