Should we get Diffrent types of civillian guns?

[Benjamin]

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)

I'm sure you could, but you could do that for anything for anyone. Corporations have a much better basis for having better gear.

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.

This is a shame, coming from you. You're 2nd in command of LR or whatever, right? You try to avoid fighting the lawfuls because that isn't your RP. So your sammaels are used excelusively against traders. So flashpoints are for exactly the same fights as sammaels are. And they're much, much worse. This isn't coinflip balance, 'one gun has to be better' balance. Flashpoints have been intentionally made much worse than all the other guns. It's kind of a slap in the face for corporate roleplay if you think they have no use for weaponry, especially since, as I said, you are in the leadership of the faction that is most famous for attacking traders to the exclusion of everything else. What, you don't think they should shoot back?
I live with what my faction gets. I don't posess any eyebrow raising loadouts on any of my ships. But flashpoints are a joke. I'll keep using them, but that doesn't mean they stop being essentially discriminated against for totally oorp reasons.

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.

Name a faction that would. If flashpoints got boosted 200dps, the only faction I could see switching over is junkers, and only because the barrager is unbelievably bad. And even then, that would be small scale. Most are using codes, some use PGs already anyway, and a few would soldier on with barragers. Like I said, the bounty hunter laser has been around since forever, and it isn't used when it is an option, because people tend not to like lasers. Find me a single person not in a civilian faction or a junker who would switch to flashes if they went up 200 dps.

---

Join Cryer Pharmaceuticals