[POLL] Unique ships available to public

[puppytaste]

I voted no.

However at least in the case of the Persephone and probably all the others they are harshly under used. I think they should be for the benefit of all players, even if seen by but not necessarily used or accessible by all.

My faction mates might not like me saying this, but how our Persephone is not used is a joke. It has 2 minutes logged on it this month. Looking at TAZ activity maybe theirs never got un-docked at all, I have no idea. And that's sort of my point, Most players only know these ships exist from old wiki entry's and forum posts but have never seen one in game.

Persephone (the actual persephone, not the phoenix one which is Hyperion) is actually a privately owned ship which flew as the TAZ flagship with permission when the owner was in the faction. Thus TAZ has no claim or control over the ship and when or how it's played.

On a side note, i was able to fly the Perse a few times a few years back and... it was a finicky pain in the arse to try and fly.
i like @Typrop 's idea about 'inspired by' derivatives that are simpler, lesser versions made for public use. Hell, with the right RP, time and co-operation from Phoenix someone could probably achieve getting a 'derived from' version of it... in theory. they'd need a modeller to make the model though.

https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...706&page=4

This is the original 'request' TAZ made for the 'actual' Persephone Blueprints to Phoenix 7 years ago. SMI-Great-Fox made it to me and Quiron at Shasta I believe. So I will have to correct you on that. If TAZ had it first why did they need us to fly it? I know there was some complicated mess with Jinx? over ownership, but that was a long time ago.

At any rate this has been a good topic. Im glad to say we've been discussing it in our Discord and hopefully we will be seeing the Hyperion more often.

Wow 7 years and still debating this lol.

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