Restricting codenames

[Tenacity]

Jinx, i dont mind players wanting to assume roles within their RP that places them above the standard fighter. Nobody here seems to want to be a 'normal' person in the freelancer universe - or very few at least. Personally I find it more fun to RP the average guy trying to get along in a universe full of danger... my junker captain is a leftover from the GMG war, and his crew is full of people from all over the galaxy who were thrown together by circumstance. Even my order character doesnt do anything too out of the ordinary - she follows protocol, carries out her orders, and acts like any standard cruiser commander would.

But most of the players I see here want to be special. They want to be cyborgs or telepaths, they want to be super-ace pilots, they want to use the best of the best equipment and weaponry, they want to be infested by nomads, etc.

I dont mind the power of the weapons so much as the pretense they're used on. In a large majority of the situations here, people do not use codename and nomad weapons with an RP reason backing it... they use these weapons because they're the most powerful thing they can get their hands on.

If everyone went by RP, nobody but the order and -maybe- liberty would be using supernova cannons on their bombers. People use them despite the breach in RP because without them, you cant take out a capship. Without codenames, most players cant take out anything bigger than a fighter (not talking about everyone here, but most pilots are not as skilled as some of you, i know i'm not).

I'd be in full agreement if all the codenames in the game were removed, and each faction had one unique class 10 gun available to them from planetary dealers. It'd also get rid of the arms dealers which, in my opinion, are a plague on the server at the moment.

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