Techmix-nerf and factions which are unique in RELYING on techmixing

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Aye Display, this also mucks with corps...again. Another sad case of play with what you're dealt.

Don't get me started. Isn't Samura for example inRP responsible for the Black Dragon engineering, design, and manufacture, ACCORDING to the infocard of the ship itself?

Crafted by the Samura corporation for the exclusive use and pleasure of the Hogosha as testament to their ongoing service to the state and its people, the Black Dragon serves as a fitting crown for any member of the organization looking to present his affiliation with style and deadly battlefield prowess.

The Hogosha, in turn, have provided many of these vessels to aid the efforts of the Farmers Alliance in combating their mutual foes. More than one Naval Forces pilot has breathed a sigh of relief at the sight of a flight of Black Dragons moving to engage a throng of native terrorists; while more than one foreign trader has felt a tremor of dread when intercepted by these vessels in deep space, far from the eyes of the law.

Well the infocard says "Crafted by the Samura corporation", so I'll take that as a "yes".

So assuming Joe Samura, Escort Pilot for Samura Industries, gets his hands on one of those, gifted by the Hogosha, and he has the corporation he works for supplying him with maintenance and repairs and otherwise - as he is the escort pilot for it afterall - it would make no sense whatsoever for that thing to be nerfed in RP just because his ID and IFF don't match the ship.




From a more practical perspective: I play as a Hessian now and then. Usually I fight when I do. And countless times again and again have I fought Krugers. I have fought the RNC-Donner and RNC-Blitz, (but they use RM IDs I -think- so that point is somewhat moot) and I have fought the SvKs, and I assure you I don't wish them to get their permitted Military gear nerfed, I don't wish them to have a disadvantage even if they annoy me or are hard to kill at times, because let's face it, there's a challenge, and I want to rise up to the challenge, I want there to be a challenge in the first place when I go into combat most of the time. And boy do I hate fighting Krugers and their Wraths and Bergelmirs.

But I don't want them to get some auto-nerf. It lessens the challenge. It makes the game less fun for them, it makes the game less fun for me, because we're no longer on roughly equal footing, we're having one side given a disadvantage by an auto-nerf, the other side not. And their ships' purpose last I checked wasn't to just be trophies for raw non-pew-pew RP flavor, but it was to protect their mining efforts in O-7. To defend their assets, and to stand up against the Red Hessian tide.