Are there too many Atrains?

[Unseelie]

Why should transports be nerfed/restricted/changed at all?
Maybe I'm exceptionally sub par when it comes to transport combat, even though I consider myself exceptional, but I find it rather difficult to survive an encounter with a VHF in my transports, any of them, let alone a bomber or a Gunboat. I feel like I should have something of a chance, from a gameplay perspective. If a ship is restricted, it should be stronger than others...if the only problem it has is that it makes money, or is very common...Well.

I've begged, for years, for custom and varied cargopods. Interesting things to look at. For more transport models, for possibilities to make my transport more mine. A new texture, a few kilobytes. People get new ships added, but tell me that my request would take too much space.

If your upset that I'm earning money...why aren't you angry with arms dealers? Miners? System modders? How about the admins, who have the right to finance their characters from .addcash? two of these groups generate money, are, essentially, the bottom of the food chain. Admins, who have the right to finance Themselves(and no one else), in exchange for their admining. Most of them don't. And then you have traders, the grass, the trees, the shrubs and the algae of the server. They buy the missiles, they fund the characters, they support such things as the arms trade and the bounties and the piracy. They often pay sums such as 20 million for a gun, or 3 million because they were bested in an unfair combat.
Tell me they don't have the right to at least as much cash as they already make? Does anyone believe that?

The Atrain is the pinnacle transport. Its mildly strong, and earns a lot of cash. It costs an awful lot, and cannot manuever very well. Demanding people avoid it is like demanding the BAF not use Templars. Nerfing it is the same. There's a lot of Atrains in game. My suggestion? A 5k fighting transport. A 5k whale, and, even, a new variant: A pacifist Armor tank, the opposite of the whale pacifist speedtank. Thats two types of ship -incapable- of fighting, but who still stand a chance getting away.

Edit: Hey, Jure, heard of the Whale? Yeah, thats the ship your thinking about.

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