Should we get Diffrent types of civillian guns?

[tansytansey]

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?
Guess it's easy to live with what your faction has when it's much better than everything it comes up against.

Unrelated matter. My position in the Liberty Rogues has nothing to do with my views on this matter, and the fact that you'd assume that of me speaks more about yourself than it does about me. Because, the fact of the matter is, I face Transport Turrets more than any other kind of gun. Corporations aren't ones to make much use of escorts, let alone their guns... I don't remember the last time I ever pirated a transport which had protection. Even if they did, I'm more likely to blow up the transport then make a run from it than stick around and fight escorts. Your point there is irrelevant.

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.

Like I said, I don't have a problem with them being buffed. I just don't think they should be stronger than any other faction weapons. Who would you nominate to have the weaker gun than Flashpoints, and how long will it be until they post here complaining and demanding a buff to their weapons?

I've edited my weapon spreadsheet to accomodate a +200dps to Heavy Flashpoints, that's roughly +24 hull and +12 shield damage. It looks pretty reasonable to me and I got no complaints about that. I'll leave the spreadsheet like this for a little while for people to take a look at. I haven't examined it closely yet .(I've been awake for 24 hours now)
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al...Fadnc&hl=en
(It will probably take 5 minutes to display the changes).

Edit: +200 DPS makes Flashpoints better than Gaian, Bundie, GMG (vanilla's best laser) guns and and the Wyrm.

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