The JUNKER CONGRESS

[worldstrider]

just so you know i'm all for starting a junker faction

BUT

I'm still totally against junkers having capships. sure they deserve the right to defend themselves but to my knowledge their enemies aren't in anything bigger than a bomber.......so, why capships?

The Junker ID allows battleships and cruisers.

I absolutely HATE the idea of telling someone regarding something they could do, "You can't do that because I don't like it". Instead, I think it's important to find a way to play the game around what it allows, rather than make a new ad hoc rule each time something comes up that this person or that person doesn't like (thanks for the support by the way--when we have our first congressional votes, come and vote your conscience).

The other reason is, perhaps one day, there might be a need for a Junker cap ship. A nomad attack on Puerto Rico to cripple the Junkers for prying to much in Nomad space. Retaliation for the Wild for salvaging from them in New Berlin or Sigma-13. The SA contrives a major issue with the Junkers and declares Puerto Rico as "fully under Liberty control" and station those big annoying ships they have there. Perhaps the Junkers have a big role play secret in Puerto Rico that they don't want others to see and the cap ships are part of the rp there.

So there are things that might merit it. I don't think you are going to find most Junkers are going to save for a Rhein and then park it--they just won't get one. By specifying this as "our" official cap ship, I am also eliminating all the other cap ships out there a player might try to shoe horn into rp. I can't control what non-faction members fly or where they fly them but this is actually one of the more controlling "rules" I have made and it addresses something the mod allows rather than ignores it.

Also, if you have ever flown a Rhein, they may possibly be the biggest silhouette and target size ship in the game. Every shot hits them. the noise is mind numbing.

My biggest concern is getting younger players to rp realistically--cap ships are the lesser issue. if we have good rpers, you won't see cap ship abuse.

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