The JUNKER CONGRESS

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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.

If you've ever flown a Rhein, you'll also know that it's probably the best battleship in the mod, too. If you want a Rheinland capship, go for RH pirate cruiser, it looks more junkish, quite possibly re-assembled from other rheinland caps, and won't make the RM get to murderizing you. I understand that junkers could easily pull out all of the pieces for a RM battleship, but they don't have the plans for it. They'd piece it together by what they thought should work, seeing themselves as better engineers than the original designers (read the infocards, the elitism is pretty obvious).

As for the Firefly, it fits with junkers perfectly. Go for it.


Ok, the 'it's sold on our base' thing is getting pretty old, too. You know that example about Kurile, a Samura planet that sells Vengeances? You know what else it sells? The Anubis Order Very Heavy Fighter. If you can tell me honestly that Samura has a right to it because its sold on their base, you're hella deluded. The same goes for a few other ships, like, oh, how the Collector is only sold on Junker bases, yet Hogosha are supposed to use it too despite being hated enemies, or that the only place you can buy RH capships are on corporate bases... so can Daumann use them then? Even the ones allowed by the ID? Hell no. You buy stuff based on RP, not on where it is. Disco has its quirks, don't sacrifice RP to them.

For weaponry, loot it. Junkers are ragtag, so give them one thing here, another there, and the only thing I could reasonably expect you to mount more than one of would be A) Barragers, they're spammed by your NPCs, or B) Transport turrets, as there are no viable alternatives. Even your gunboat stuff should be ragtag, go for a pair of basics, maybe a Liberty, maybe a missile turret, you get the idea. Oh wait, junker gunboat is the mining ship... nvm that bit.

Oh yeah, if you REALLY need that battleship, go for zoner juggernaut. Despite being from Battlestar Galactica, it kind of looks the part. Not that you really need one, after all, who the hell would it ever fight?

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