factionized flagships

[Praetyre]

I'm always bewildered by that proposition. If we are not to compare to reality in our roleplay as it's basis, what are we to compare to? Star Wars? Battlestar Galactica? The Smurfs? Should I base a smuggler character on the behaviours of a real life smuggler and extrapolate it using vanilla information and the implications of Freelancers settings, or go by the personality of smugglers given by Han Solo or by typical smugglers in Star Wars? I mean, entertainment is a very subjective thing. I find realism most entertaining, but what if I thought making my smuggler a time travelling Neanderthal who is the father of Spartacus?

"It's just a game" is, to be honest, an inconsistent argument. Why is it that it's not "just a game" when we complain about people who run OORP trade routes or want to import things from other universes, yet it is when people want ships that both in real life AND in vanilla (our other "bedrock") are rare, powerful and restricted to be so?

Some people find internal consistency fun, and they aren't a minority. Movies that have massive plot holes quite often get slammed in the box office and by critics, and look at the amount of value graphics play in immersing the modern gamer in the modern computer and video game environment. And for me, when there's more capital ships than snub ships in a Navy and some people are acting like Navies are some sort of weird public use smorgasboard, it breaks immersion.

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