Should we get Diffrent types of civillian guns?

[tansytansey]

Even the worst corporation is so massively richer, and has so much more access to technology, than the Liberty Rogues.
Flashpoints are the faction weapon for SIXTEEN factions. And you want to make them rubbish so that factions use their own weapons? Well that makes a whole lot of sense.

Flashpoints should be the most common guns around, but for really no defensible reason they have been crippled in to obscurity. Eyvind and I are the only people I've seen with them.

There could be a myriad of RP reasons as to why the Liberty Rogues have a better Laser Weapon than all these massively rich corporations. Like, I don't know... they're Buisness men not cutthroat pirates? Or Maybe Laser is just an obsolete technology and no one else bothers developing enhancements anymore (It seems that way at least xD)
Of those 16 Factions, how many of them are trader factions? I'm betting it's the majority, if not all of them. So what use does a trader faction have for a top of the line military grade weapon? For sale, maybe. But then, it doesn't have to be top of the line since they have no one to compete with. They might need them for escorts too, I suppose. But even then, they don't need to be really good to get the job done. Fact is not everyone can have space superiority at the same time, and the sooner you accept that the sooner you learn to live with what your faction has.

People that don't want to use roleplay loadouts will find ways around it. Making flashpoints really bad is PROMOTING that, since flashpoints should be the weapons that sixteen factions, not to mention freelancers and mercenaries and vigilantes, use. That's nineteen IDs breaking roleplay just so that whatever faction you want to use its faction guns isn't tempted to use flashpoints.

And contrary to your beliefs, I think that making Flashpoints stronger will do the opposite of what you want here. Those factions already using their IDs appropriate equipment could change to using civilian tech, because it is pretty much legal for everyone to use. Not changing them effects 19 IDs. Changing them effects all of them.

EDIT: Almost forgot.

Nonsense, seriously.

Contradicting views are often dismissed as nonsense. Simply because someone disagrees with you, doesn't make it so.

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