Petition: Royal Liners (And Possibly Even Luxury Liners)

[Eppy]

I know we rarely see liners, but if I have to try and get them restricted to get the spam-wary among us to pipe down and let us buff the ships as necessary, so be it. I don't think many of you realize how aggravating it is to take half an hour, sometimes more, dodging pirates and avoiding tradelanes, to make about 6.5 million credits, and being completely unable to truly, IRP, do another run, and then get mugged every time you think it's safe to take aforementioned tradelanes because pirates know you have nowhere else to go.

You know, I remember the day I made Ace. I was flying a Large Train, and I'd gotten it off a mediocre gunboat. Now I can't expect to kill a Gunboat in a Cap VIII Liner, the supposed pinnacle of defense in trading vessels, and god forbid I try to get real RP out of the encounter. The last time I was pirated and enjoyed it was, ironically, by Phate (God, I think that was at least three months ago). I payed 1.1 billion good credits - upwards of 40 hours of play - for a ship so that I could have a fighting chance doing something so much more interesting than move inanimate objects and do it in a ship that matched my character's style - tenacious, morally questionable, rich, and cultured as hell - and I come to find out that no, I should have spent my money on that new Dreadnought after all, it's all a farce left over from the days when a Liner WAS good for that sort of thing, back when it was a ship that made pirates really work for their money, and actually let the trader make some.

*sits back down in rocking chair, puts on straw hat, sets Wave Motion Gun down*

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Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen

Which Dreadnought was that?

One of your nine.