Blood dragons were actually royal guards. so, when they escaped, they stole the entirity of the then naval forces fleet and made away, save a few. then BD and samura modded their vessels differently, and thats end of story.
Order can send them spare resources ( if any). they can buy from zoners, etc
lets turn all caps into transports, and make battleships cos 1000bn, and cruisers 500bn. this way, it becomes a joint effort to make them, and access is only via forums. man up and get writing those srps
Discovery wasn't really developed with this sort of 'realism' in mind. Factions got capital ships/ship lines arbitrarily, depending on who had friends that modelled ships (CR for example). Then at some point, to make it even, pretty much all the factions got their own cap ships, except for the less popular ones (such as the Budschuh, Gaians, GC, etc.).
BD, for ones, had the Togo for a long while, but before 4.86 it used to be SRP only. I really see no reason why it shouldn't have kept this way.
As for BHG|Core, I agree that their low amount of resources shouldn't let them have free access to caps, and those should be SRP only.
Though, again, I am in general favor of battleships being free to use only by house navies, other larger criminal/revolutionary groups having BCs, medi-core sized unlawful groups up to a cruiser and the rest with GBs or smaller (in terms of combat ships, that is).
Note that this doesn't include SRPs, I am all in favor of giving the ability to SRP bigger ships for ALL factions, given sufficient RP.
It's very nice, that Core started to support their capital ships inRP.
I don't say it as statement, but I just haven't found any exclusive thing, which Core could have as export. Doesnt matter what, production or services. If there any such export thing, which is exclusive and unique, then Core has no problem in finance.
I say it because, I also don't realy believe, that money comming from only BHG bounty, is enough for support all the fleet.
(03-03-2014, 09:01 AM)Scumbag Wrote: Are discussing here our personal opinions or what is best from a lore and gameplay point of view?
Lore view.
Think that a houses like Bretonia and Kusari currently have less than 20 battleships, I doubt that these far smaller and FAR less resourceful organization could scale up to their abilities.
Core shouldn't be able to freely produce Makos, maybe the cruisers and some BCs, but the Mako should be a rather rare sight.
Personally I'd love for battleships to be far less common, across the board. As far as Core goes, we're a small faction and can only field 3 or 4 Makos. There needs to be input from the Dev/Admin/Storyline team as to the actual/maximum number of battleships each house/organisation should/could have. There then needs to be some sort of control to stop those numbers from being exceeded. SRPs seem the only viable option in that case.
But you then run into the quagmire if dealing with the indy players, and restricting their access as well. Not a job I'd want to have.
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