Shieldbusters

[alance]

because, morrigan, we honestly think it would be a nice addition.
it would add to the RP, and, besides, no one here is demanding Igiss even look at this thread.
we are posting because we believe we have something positive to add.
I for one support making guns for each faction.
players fly high level ships.
shouldn't they get high level guns?
this is our suggestion for what Igiss spends the time he spends working on the mod doing....his perogative, and we are beggars...but, well, honestly, my impression of Igiss is of someone who wants to make a well balanced, enjoyable player environment.
flavor is part of that.

I'm not looking to deny anyone the right to beg for changes, I make plenty of pleas of my own. But, if the goal is balance (and this thread started as in essence "should shield busters be removed since not everyone gets them") then I think making a slew of new weapons is overkill for the problem when adding a few somewhat generic would suffice.

Trying to give everyone a shield buster that fits their faction is going to a large undertaking because it's going to start getting into things like Codies and Nomad weapons. Why? Because right now Corsairs and their allies are perfectly happy with the 600m/s velocity constant across all of those weapons, but other people are not impressed with their codie options. In another thread people are lobbying to have codies faction-ized already. Do we need to tailor this stuff so specifically?

Right now you'll find most Red Hessians using a rack of Natterturn Zwei (a native Hessian weapon) and a couple of Debilitators. This is a 750m/s setup and it works fine. But making Debs off limits and pushing factions like ours into using an Outcast-specific shield buster at 700m/s means we all turn in our Natters for Krakens.

For some of us, Sync'd gun velocities are very important, especially for those of us without access to the nomads, codies, and del cids all nicely matched up at 600m/s. I know the above plan was aimed at making more shield busters available at different speeds, but invariably factions will still be left using allied weaponry instead of their own good quality stuff because not every angle is going to be covered unless Igiss makes a metric-frack-tonne of changes to guns. I'd rather see a few more generic civies and call it done.

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