Faction Unique Ships

[aerelm]

The issue with unique ships is the age old question of "What should we do after the player(s) using it get bored and leave?". Unique ships can't be touched after they're actually added into the mod, because people on other servers may have developed their own characters to use that ship, but on the other hand, the original owner of the ship leaving after a while is almost a certainty, and the same even applies to factions, as we had two 'unique' factions disbanding recently and the question of "What to do with their toys now?" causing a good bit of headache among devs and admins.

This is basically why the current dev team has a "No more unique toys" policy. If recycling unique ships was as easy as how Player Faction IDs work right now, then granting unique ships would've been possible but as things currently are, posting a SRP for a different light/core/engine setup to make your ship somewhat unique is as far as it can go.