factionized flagships

[Muleo]

Dare... I... Say... personalized skins?:yahoo:

I've actually been drooling about the idea of faction flagships for a long time, but always thought the modders/admins would be too busy for it, but hey maybe with the new admins this idea has a chance?

As for balancing, pff I dno, maybe the new armor, maybe more guns, more powerplant whatever.

What I would REALLY like, is a customized skin. ie. the OPG flagship would have a crossbones on it with Torquemada written across the side.



Edit: Just realised, a few balance problems, if you keep same powerplant/hardpoints, and just boost armor by 4x or more. That would screw up balance... why?
Let's say an Order Osiris vs Corsair Osiris come face to face.
The Corsair Osiris has 11 light Corsair turrets, 1 mortar. (11 light Corsair firing doesn't drain energy)
The Order Osiris has 12 Order mk1/2 turrets. Doesn't really matter wether he has a mortar or not.

Now if those 2 hammered away at each other in today's mod, the Order Osiris would win. Why? it has a high damage output. The only advantage the Corsair Osiris has, is energy efficiency, but this doesn't come into play because both ships die so quickly.

Now if you boosted armor by 4x now the Corsair Osiris has the advantage, it can hammer away like it always has, whereas the Order Osiris runs out of energy by the time the Corsair Osiris is at 3/4.

My point is, energy efficiency plays a bigger role when armour gets multiplied by 4 times or so, and some factions are greatly disadvantaged when it comes to this, because their basic turrets drain their energy too fast.