Restricting codenames

[Yngen]

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Our ships are competitive. I'd wager on the Vengeance-armed Liberator over the Suntiger-armed Eagle any day of the week; our ships are better, your guns are better. Balances it out. Plus, we're not a PvP-intensive faction, mostly we just sit around Liberty making jokes at our own expense.

Sorry Zapp, I've heard the 'it all balances out' argument many times before and its simply bogus.

For one thing, the current convention on the Server is to select a ship that is either created by your NPC faction, or made by a friendly faction. For example an Outcast flying a Blood Dragon. Put Outcast guns on a Blood Dragon...add an inferno into the mix and you have the most over powered fighter in the game. Put Daitos and a cruise disruptor on that same Blood Dragon and you only have a very fast ship with mediocre guns.

In order for faction ships and faction weapons to have a direct relationship in terms of balance we would have to create a rule that you can only use a ship that matches your ID/affiliation. I sincerely hope that never happens.

The only way some factions have to mitigate the unbelieveable crap that is their faction's weapons, is to add codenames to the mix. One ends up with ships that have a lot of codenames or a mix of codenames/nomads and missiles are those people who prefer to have their gun's muzzle velocities match for accuracy.

There aren't enough options for weapons in the class 10s to mix and match your faction's guns with them, so its either/or.

Fix the weapons in the mod first, then we can talk weapons limitations.

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[AU]Anton_Blix
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