Transport Powerplants

[Unseelie]

If transport power plants re going to be made less great, I think they should get cap style weapons...razors, pulse cannons, missiles. If not, what tenny said. Their weapons re crap....Give them interesting weapons, or leave their power plants alone.

Furthermore, Transports are supposed to be fortresses. They cost more than gunboats. In RP, empty space and engines do not cost that much. Out of RP? They're expensive because devs want to lengthen the time it takes to get capitalships...And now, the profits you can earn are lower. These ships cost about the same as cruisers. There's no reason a lone fighter should have any sort of a chance. A lone bomber should struggle. Transports? They cost up to four times the price of Gunboats. They should be on at least even footing with them. They can -already- (and will always, unless severely, severely, retardedly gimped) take out other transports. Giving them better guns will -not- make them better pirates.

Transports are not trucks. They're not even tankers. These things are Merchanter ships from the age of sails. The seas are stars, and they're even -more- dangerous. And people think our merchanters wouldn't sail with cannons? That's pirate bias.

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