(06-30-2021, 10:07 PM)Toaster Wrote: What the hell are you people on about? They're engines and thrusters. They're all identical gameplay-wise and the only method of cosmetic customization available (outside of lights). It's nothing like making weapons and ships available to everyone.
Which, by the way, you still have control over, so stop whining about something this minor and let people have pretty colors come out of their ships' asses.
With the recent changes to techcells the guns might as well be oorp cosmetics, too, because pretty much every alliance group has a shared tech cell now and has access to pretty much any set of guns that they like. If I'm flying a sair, I'm just gonna pick the Gaian guns over the Moonblasts because they look cooler, and now I have 100% on them.
There's nothing sanctionable about interrupting snubfights with solaris gatling cruisers, but there's a reason most people don't do it.
A pet peeve of mine about Discovery for quite a while is that we cannot agree on very basic things. There are certain things about the universe that impact people's RP efforts that should be established. You cannot work on a good, long-term RP project if there is no established convention, at least as long as it doesn't involve in-game assets.
And, yes, it is sanctionable. If the green text in the opening post says the engines do not exist in RP, then if you mention them in RP, that's metagaming.
Now, granted, this is a fairly talmudic interpretation but that's literally what the post says.
