Discovery 4.81 features, bugs & suggestions

[marauder]

Weapons.

We need to be able to have characters RP as a faction and be able to use that factions weapons against ANY target, be it NPC or player.

At the moment everyone uses codename, nomad, chainguns and corsair shield-busters because "the weapons, of the faction I'm aligned to, suck" the only exceptions are the outcasts and corsairs.

If you use similar loadouts as the NPCs do you can only kill NPC transports, freighters and fighters, you'll get creamed by anything bigger and as for taking on any player ship, thats suicide.

So whats the point of making RP characters, each with their own history and personality when you always have to use the same weapons on them?

No-one uses alot of the weapons in the mod, practically all the container transports I see use gunboat or chaingun turrets.

Practially every fighter I see, regardless of it's faction ID, has codenames, tizonas, coladas, nomad cannons or blasters and salamanca guns mounted.

Every capship I see has solaris, inferno, battlerazor, order or corsair turrets mounted.

I've never seen anyone use the basic turrets that are sold for all capships, let alone the stock weapons that come with a ship.

So what is the point of having all the other weapons in the mod?
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Cruisers/destroyers.

They are pitifully under-powered.

As an example it takes at least 2, if not 3, cruisers to take out a BS, it only takes a single fighter to take out a cruiser.

A tricked out fighter can take out a cruiser without worrying about it, the same tricked out fighter can still damage a BS, and depending on the pilot, possibly kill a BS too.

So we need to do something so that lone fighters cannot hurt a BS and has to struggle to harm a cruiser/destroyer.

As for gunboats, I haven't flown one for ages so I'll leave the suggestions for them to the SF guys who do use gunboats.