Superior Phantom ships/weapons

[Rudo]

In any case I apologize for any offensive tone I might've taken on while saying my piece.

I also want to point out that my gripes aren't aimed specifically at Phantoms or any other solitary faction, but at the "I stole a Kusari bomber and made friends with Corsairs and Nomads which explains my Catamaran with Nomad guns and Coladas" special RP requests we all get irritated with seeing. Phantoms, again, aren't the enemy here. It's the whole mentality of favoring a particular faction to the point of viewing all other factions as strawman floating targets who shouldn't deserve a fighting chance. Players on all sides and all factions suffer this to an extent, wanting their own kit boosted and denouncing enhancements to others who 'don't need it'.

My experience in this is that Junkers get it a lot. Both from the powergaming standpoint due to pirate faction connections (my chief source of headaches with running this faction is putting up with the whining when I tell Congress players they can't mount Del Cids) and the players who believe Junkers should all be in CSVs and be defenseless when combat situations arise, as we're 'not a combat faction'.

If what Del says of the Phantoms is what we'll see, rather than the 'randomly park in Sigma-13 and murder diamond trains' ploy, then I'll want to see more of them. I want to exchange bloodthirsty banter about tearing out organs, and what happens to those pirates and bounty hunters whose pods are picked up after attacking Junkers at Yanagi. I want my Rheinlander Bounty Hunter to die with his guns blazing and earn his passage to Valhalla at the hands of a superior foe. Done right, an army of transhumanist psychopaths with ultra-specialized death machines is great to have around. Done wrong, and it's going to be viewed as being spared from the sanction boards only due to the members of the faction. But the faction members are aware of the standard they're held to.

Phantoms aren't the issue here, despite my half-stating so earlier. It's the whole angry attitude. I don't know if better guns (more guns are a given, gotta fill those holes) will be worth the player headache, or even if they'll do much to further Phantom RP. If they hit a bit harder than the average gun, fine. Leave it that way and work on filling the cracks rather than do something to generate more bandwidth wasted on whining.

Final random note: I got in a scrum with Nightsmoke in New Berlin a week or two ago and I had fun. Bugger mined my Manta. :P

Absolute final note: This thread needs a lock and people need to go for a walk. The server's not having a good day so it's a good time to do so.



EDIT: I'm a chatty one lately. Sorry about the wall of text.

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