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

[Maelstrom]

Okay. Then YOU give the SCRA a light Battleship to replace their Osirises. YOU give the HF shipclasses to replace each used kind of ship. YOU give the LWB and Bundschuh their own shiplines. YOU make it so EVERYONE who has characters mentioned in the tech-permissions thread can continue functioning as before without some arbitrary nerf AT THEIR COST, while YOU ensure the "balance and fairness" of that system of yours, a system that is kicking the HF's balance down the drain.

You don't NEED a light battleship. Lots of factions don't have one. HF has the spyglass, that's already far more than most factions have. If you WANT another you can take the hit, just like everybody else. That is the very essence of fair.

The whole point of the new system is to make it so that people CAN'T continue to function as before. Now tech-mixing is truely going to be about the rp, not the pvp. If you want to roleplay a HF in a rogue destroyer you still can, you just aren't going to kick seven kinds of tail with your tech-mix doing it.

This system even makes more sense than the previous system. It used to be, "You can't use this cuz we said so, nyah." Now it's, "You can use this but it has a different set of system specs and doesn't mesh well with your current systems software and hardware." At least that is a plausible roleplay reason.

Addendum: For those who say tech restrictions enforced by the factions not selling makes sense, let me say this. I am American. My wife drives a Japanese car, I have a Taiwanese T.V., an American Computer with Chinese made parts, my dad drives a millitary surplus Jeep, and my brother drives a European Range Rover. If I want I can pick up Russian, English, American, French, and German guns at the local hunting outlet. Many of them are automatic weapons with the actions modified (an easy fix to put them back to full rock and roll) to semi-auto. If you have the money you can buy anything you want, up to and including millitary surplus tanks and planes. That whole line of reasoning was just plain stupid. At least the new system will have some plausibility. We all know what a hassel it can be to get incompatable systems to work.

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