' Wrote:Once OC BS came out I've been getting the money to change it to a BS from Dread. BS isn't nearly as good as the Dread, so I wouldn't have planned on changing it if I just wanted the best.
The Caedo is for operations outside of Theta, such as helping other Zoners whenever high firepower is needed. Thats why I was going to change it to an OC BS, and might change it to an Osiris, IF there is less complaints about it. However, the battlestars are NOT small mobile weapon platforms. Would you rather an OC BS or an Osiris?
Also, your point is moot.. Neither of our Dreads has been destroyed or even severely damaged as-of-yet. The only BS we've had destroyed in the last month or two was the Ableben once, and i think we can agree that Livadia won't have any problem repairing it..
Also, of course we use one side's ships more than the other. That was a term of the cease fire, we weren't to use Corsair ships, only access to their equipment (which we used only sparingly in the first place..) Would you like us to use Corsair ships too, in the frame of fairness? Didn't think so. Outcast ships are the most-available in terms of RP, so thats what we used. Now I'm here trying to find a better suited one, the IMG Gunboat for the GBs, and Osiris for our single out-of-Theta BS, but you even complain of those, which gives me no incentive to change it..
Let's see. You say that you wouldn't have planned to change your OC dread with an OC BS if you just did not want the best. If so, why do you complain about the battlestar's incapability of serving as a mobile weapon platform, which is moot as well? One side of the comparison here is still aimed at the capability level of the vessels more than the availability.
What does 'Would you rather an OC BS or an Osiris?' mean at all? A threat to those who don't think using OC ships under the Zoner tag is fit? Want to hear what I would rather? Neither an OC BS nor an Osiris. Stick to the god damn battlestars! But I know, you won't.. Do I care? Not much.
Indeed, my point is moot. However, something what is not moot is, you don't repair a destroyed craft but something damaged. If the hulk is smashed into pieces, it would be collected, if possible of course, in order either for a scrapping operation or a possible recollection and reformation for a retrofitting to its slightly original ex-phase, which also depends on the capability of the educated labor force, amount of funds devoted within the overall budget and technological adequacy of your shipyards. Alright, you have the Livadia. Good. And I don't have the exact records of how many times your ships have been decimated or damaged in action. But due previous argument, there will always be a probability that your destroyed crafts in action may not recover back. How would one estimate this probabilty? Due to what kind of criterias or under which RP circumstances and requirements could we decide? Or just leave it as a free for all as long as no one dares to complain about one's lucridious broad array of handling any equipment he tends to put his hands on?
My entire point has been that harboring Outcast ships and especially, their big toys which they will not disembark for a very good reason, as well as using their weapons, under the Zoner tag will eventually put you into a marginal submission of Outcast partisanship which means that your so called group should be ready to refrain using their position for the guardianship of Omicron Theta as you will have no authority left to dictate the trafficking within that system as the pure sound of Zoners, in my eyes.
The frame of fairness would be valid if you were not reluctant to stick to a less intricate Zonership. But I fear, that is not the exact case. As far as I can see from here, you are in the very endeavor of keeping the options as broad as you can. Under these circumstances, the faction you are once again to revive will be nothing more than a marginal group of ex-Zoners, laboring for the forward protectorate of Outcasts into Theta space. Don't try to take refuge in the argument that AW have already been out of the pure Zoner elitism concept. The reason why I didn't say ex-AW is because you have been long due, while official, taken up the quest of ruling the trafficking of Theta space in the name of Zoners and their Council. You could stay still without interfering the hispanic war, but I would expect Corsairs violating any cease-fire they had signed in the past, at every opportunity, if I were you.
If Theta is the neutral outpost between the Corsairs and Outcasts, I don't believe that Corsairs would respect an exemption of a sporadic periphery, which is led by an Outcast sympathy, as an authority of the system on their way, but a rich source for plunder and pillage most eventually, just before they set foot upon the soil of their foes.
