New Ships and the need

[Benjamin]

Whilst there is maybe some going overboard with adding things, like maybe systems and freeports (;)). I basically approve of new ships. Ultimately, they really don't change that much. If they're faction specific and/or not unbalanced, they're basically just an eagle/sabre replace for whatever faction, and nothing changes for everyone else. Good for the faction, not bad for anyone else.
But sometimes, they don't make sense. Certain factions just shouldn't be able to make ships, really, and it kind of doesn't work. Or maybe some arbitrary faction will have an extremely good ship and mercs will start flying it, or the faction will be weirdly over-represented.
But yeah, on the whole, it's good. I tend to pick the smaller/odder factions to play in, and vanilla would have me flying almost exclusively eagles. And choice is good.
I should say that I think I'm in the only two non-corp factions without a specific ship, and I don't really think either faction needs one.

edit: also, replaces are excellent. There's that Dacite HF, which stats-wise looks like it should be really good. Sadly it is the most horrifically disgusting model of all time, and I just can't fly it. If that get's a nice model, I'll totally buy one. Ditto Havoc bomber. That's a civ-friendly bomber right there, just it's unbelievably ugly so I can't bring myself to buy it.

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