Luxury Ships

[Clarkie]

I'm all in favour of new unique ships that look luxurious.

However, please dont make them useless at anything except sitting around while their owners type. I dont understand the whole argument that a pure-roleplay vessel has to be crap at anything else, thats just stupid.

For example (not 'directly' relelvant), look at luxury cars - Fast, Big, Heavy, Good Looking, huge engines (see powerplants).

Rich people dont pay good money for a product to be inferior in any respect.

Case in point: My uber-rich freelancer Erasmus Fontayne - His vessel, the 'Bacchus' is in fact a Kusari Explorer.
Why? It's nice looking, has a sedate yacht-like level of agility, yet in all other respects is far-superior to any common transport (apart from the cargo bay of course).

I RP it as being a luxurious gin-palace inside, but old Fontayne's not stupid enough to sacrifice defences and firepower.

The bottom line is that you don't get rich by being friends with everybody. Rich people tend to have enemies, and in the cold vacuum of deep space, they're not going to cruise around in anything that could be robbed blind by any numbskull that happens along.

So, by all means go ahead, I'm sure there's not anyone here who would not like to see nice new ships come in next edition, but people please, lets get over this silly idea that a rich mans ship has to be little more than a visual status symbol.