The Nomad Vagrants — Feedback

[Foxglove]

Heya, thank you for your feedback. It is always nice to see that people actually read our writeup.

The Vagrants currently have two Ishtars and one Marduk, the Marduk being the ingame asset used for the Simurgh, which you can read about here, although I have not yet gotten the opportunity to really capitalize on still having an old Marduk.

The other comment of yours I believe I can break down to: Why do you have so many battleships if the Vagrants are supposed to be meek/archaic Nomads while the Ishtar is being roleplayed as a very old Nomad by the K'Hara?

The answer to this is twofold, and there is a practical argument and an inRP one.

Firstly, there currently is only one shipline for the Nomads. While it would be very cool if we could split them, I believe that as it is right now, we are forced to use the same ships.

Secondly, the Vagrants are not per se less capable than the K'Hara when it comes to producing new Nomad ships. The K'Hara only have more resources that they can funnel into that. Yes, you are right that the Vagrants, inRP, meaning not ingame, are supposed to be less adapted to fighting than the K'Hara. We can't really depict this difference ingame short of not giving our best in PvP, which would not be enjoyable to us. Keep in mind, though, that the faction exists for longer than a year now and that, realistically speaking, the Vagrants would not have stayed the same from then till now. They would have gotten stronger at least marginally. The way I intend the progression within the faction to work is that you start out by flying small ships and gradually earn the bigger ones, including the Ishtar, and this is merely a reflection of this growth as well.

tl;dr - There is no conflict between trying to be the 'archaic' Nomads from the Nomad War and having battleships. Not only was the Marduk a thing during the Nomad War, but the Ishtar is practically the only Nomad Battleship currently, and the Vagrants have had more than a year to look at the K'Hara and try to 'appropriate' their new ships through observation, as we have actually done here.

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