I'm going to step in and share my thoughts on this topic because I think it can only help the situation to talk more about it.
From a vanilla and newbie standpoint, when I first started playing freelancer (it really wasn't that long ago) I initially gravitated towards Corsair. The Outcasts were very cool, don't get me wrong but they had sleek, shiny ships with big effects. Sairs, on the other hand, had boxy ships like the Titan and the Gunboat. In all honesty it reminded me of the Mac/PC divide. Some people preferred one over the other.
My personal opinion is that the 'Sairs should get the better ships whereas the Outcasts should get the better weapons, reflecting their theme of "a house divided." Corsair ships would be better because of their shipbuilding expertise, but because of Cardi and other alliances, (like the Lane Hackers) the Outcasts would have better internal equipment. (Guns, thrusters, maybe even things like shields, but I'm not going that far...) It would balance the two factions, yet give them a sense of individuality, which is (I think) the goal here.
Seriously though, am I the only one that misses the small amount of pride of flying home with a broken-off wing? "Yeah, he blew off my right and left wings, but I nailed him with a torpedo!"
Ah well. I guess that's what they call "the good ol' days."
"The thirteen saloons that had lined the one street of Seney had not left a trace. The foundations of the Mansion House hotel stuck up above the ground. The stone was chipped and split by the fire. It was all that was left of the town of Seney. Even the surface had been burned off the ground.
Nick looked at the burned-over stretch of hillside, where he had expected to find the scattered houses of the town and then walked down the railroad track to the bridge over the river. The river was there."
