Should we get Diffrent types of civillian guns?

[eyvind]

The pervasive notion seems to be that Flashpoints are absolutely and irrefutably useless in practicality. Counter to this, I have used Flashpoints with great success with Griffins, Eagles, Camaras, and Ankis. What I mean to say is that in practice, Flashpoints are fine.

On the other hand, nearly all other weapons have a considerable edge over them. I have rarely felt this edge, but that might very well be because I fly highly agile ships in the vast majority of my PvP encounters. I imagine this edge is far more apparent when ships that are guaranteed to be hit -- such as bombers -- fight each other.

Following that, there is yet another counter-point. Civilians primarily use fighters over bombers, and the Griffin and Eagle are some very agile ships. Well-flown, they would not encounter any terribly inconveniencing difficulties while using Flashpoints.

That argument, on the other hand, might be an illegitimate mix of RP and PvP reasoning, which brings us to the topic of balance. Currently -- correct me if I am wrong -- Flashpoints are one of very few things in Discovery that are balanced based on RP reasons. I see no good reason, certainly not from a game design point of view, to keep the unaffiliated civilians in a shadow such as this.

On that note, I agree with much of what has been said so far. There should be civilian guns -- perhaps several, perhaps one of each type -- to compliment the Flashpoint -- which does not need buffing -- that is on-par with faction guns in terms of hard numbers.

I have heard some bring up the point, when discussing advantages of weapons, that some weapons may appear weaker when really they are just more energy-efficient. Not many people argue this point, but nonetheless I would like to note that energy-efficiency is one of the least important factors in the current PvP model of Discovery.

That is my opinion, at the moment.

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