BHG Warships. A flawed concept?

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People forget operating costs.

Note, that the below is not necessarily what happens ingame, but is very similar to what happens if Discovery were real.

Daily, to run a vessel the size of a Cruiser or larger, is far greater than any amount of money an independent captain can make. Factor in fuel, wages for crew, ammunition, maintenance, and many other costs.

The Bounty Hunter's Guild is not a foundation that pays its workers for what they do, like the LN or the BAF. Those groups subsidize fuel, ammunition, and wages for all their members. The BHG, is for a lack of a better term, a Union.

It most likely began by providing health insurance, comm channels, and an occasional "green" base for otherwise lonely Hunters to mingle and resupply for a small cut of their bounty profits. Eventually, the BHG gained power, as the numbers of Hunters grew. Soon enough, they became a lobbying group, fighting with the houses to allow Hunters to operate. The Houses too, imposed restrictions on Hunters, stating that if they were not registered with the Guild, they could not operate.

The Guild in no ways subsidizes the operating costs of independent bounty hunter vessels.

As a result, it's utterly pointless for regular BHG members to operate vessels the sizes of Gunboats and above, as it would completely drain them of their profits.

The Guild Core, on the other hand, supplies their own vessels for their own purposes, much like how the LN, RM, and BAF, subsidize their military vessels. It makes sense for the Core to have capitals for specific purposes.

In the next mod version, I believe that capitals will be restricted to the Core ID, which will eliminate the illogical concept of regular BHG flying capital class vessels.

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[7:42:05 PM][6:51:36 PM] Igor (Smokey): btw terry
[6:51:48 PM] Terrance Cooper: Ye?
[6:52:00 PM] Igor (Smokey): nothin
[6:52:03 PM] Igor (Smokey): just sayin btw
[6:52:05 PM] Terrance Cooper: <_<

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