Superior Phantom ships/weapons

[Zelot]

Actually, I agreed with the majority of what you said in your post. It was good. Maybe I should have said that...

Anyway, I was just pointing out the part that I didn't agree with.

In all honesty, it isn't the weapons that bother me. Especially after reading this thread. Everyone seems to have a specialty in some regard faction wise. It is a part of Disco and I can live with that.

The thing that gets me is stacking the weapons on the boosted ships. Then you have to look at how the ships were aquired for the faction too. They were stripped from the players that use them, boosted and made phantom only. The players who did use them were told these are ours now, lose 'em or sanchun. Protests (I admit loudly from myself) were ignored or laugh at and the process moved on. Really, who else as a faction in the history of disco has had the power to pull something like that? It is true, that people have been told they have to change ships (rouge GS is an example) but the option was still there to use it with a rep change or a replacement (rouge GB) was made.

I think it is actions of that nature that put a shadow on the faction and foster the kind of hostility and resentment to how the group as a whole is seen.

You act as though no one else had ships taken away from them in 4.85 with little say on their part. It is part of the development of the game. Now each faction can complain about what they lose and "the way" they lose it, which btw is the same for everyone that is losing ships, or we can look hard and realize that the RC was always supposed to be a Phantom ship, it was brought into the mod to be a Phantom ship, it was politics of one kind or another that also gave it to the LSF, and the Slippy was really a ship without a good home, and as an added bonus matches the RC. The slippy was a civi ship sold on a pirate base. A civi ship shouldnt be the best light fighter in the game, and the best light fighter in the game, which is supposed to be a civi ship, should not be sold on a pirate base. Two ships that really didnt fit were reassigned, it has happened to others in the past, and with the new ID rules in 4.85, there are many, many people who are being asked to give up ships they have become accustomed to. In the end we can only hope it's for the good of the game as a whole.

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