Merging components on Vanilla ships

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I voted no only because I like to watch my ship turn from sleek new to ragged and bent-up. In singleplayer, sometimes your ship would get several wings and fins blown off in the course of a long and brutal campaign. Having that effect is really very important to me, but that's not the way the server is going.

More and more newer models without the blow-away wings are making their way into the mod. Then again, if we merged the models there are some ships that would simply be outmatching every other ship. Right now, most people can agree that the Sabre is the best VHF out there. If the models got merged we would have to rebalance the Sabre, along with others.

The way I see it, we're either going to have to make complex models for the non-vanilla, or make complex rebalances for the vanilla soon-to-be-merged. Two mountains nobody wants to climb, me thinks.

Really though, either way I'd prolly be happy. :laugh:

Other arguments were strong - this made me vote NO.
Surviving a fight, with a wing blown off brings the game alive.
I saw threads on the Crossfire Mod saying the over balancing made the ships too samey (esp cap ships) and it was the differences (fair or otherwise) that brought players back

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