Gytrash's rant.

[Trogdor]

inRP a few gunboats or bombers can't take down a battleship.

Single player campaign disagrees with you. You can bring down battleships without a battleship. Bombers and cruisers will be able to do the job just fine. Gunboats as fire support against smaller ships is also an option.

Yeah, but the singleplayer campaign is ridiculous. The battleships don't have shields and Trent single-handedly destroys, what, a dozen of them? Sometimes more than one at a time? Come on man. No nation in their right mind would build such a large, slow, vulnerable battle-pinata.

If the Zoners weren't capable of deterring the Corsairs and Outcasts from taking their stations with naval force, they would have captured those Freeports long ago.

Zoners are useful to the Corsairs/Outcasts, thus the Freeports haven't been a realistic target for a takeover. Through their relations, Zoners can get material for example that Outcasts/Corsairs would have a harder time getting. As long as the Zoners are of use for the local factions, there is no reason for them to take the base over.

Incase of a hostile attacks, the small zoner community amongst a freeport is too small to effectively stand against a full scale attack. They rely on their usefullness towards others.

Imagine the Zoners on FP10 would suddenly rebel against the Outcasts, blocking their dock access, stop shipments to Outcasts. The base would be destroyed or taken over within a week.

Also, if the suggested stats are going to be final, the new 'transports' will be murder machines.

The Zoners have also traditionally harbored those nation's enemies. They would be better served kicking the Zoners/BH/other pirates out, operating the stations and biodomes themselves, and raiding out of their newly acquired base. On top of this, there have been plenty of fiascos in the past that surely would have incensed them into taking those bases over, even if it wasn't really to their advantage. They're kind of cranky people.

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