Petition: Royal Liners (And Possibly Even Luxury Liners)

[Belco]

alright, i wanted to comment on this more but havent had the time so!

this special request issue is a workaround to get liners buffed without them being spammed

yes, it would avoid them getting spammed, and im in favor of the royal liner being special, it's royal after all (probably has one of a kind artwork and special rugs and such), but the real issue here is seemingly whether they should be buffed or not, i think we should work on that before we think about fixing liner spam that isnt there yet.

here's a few comparisons of the Enterprise Luxury liner and ships of similar stats from DS

Luxury Liner:
~$208 million, 11 transport turrets, 180 000 armor, 100 000 shield (max), 4300 cargo space

Bretonia's Shire Transport:
~$101 million, 12 transport turrets, 150 000 armor, 100 000 shield (max), 4200 cargo space

Junker Salvager (gunboat/transport?)
~$108 million, 6 gunboat turrets, 160 000 armor, 140 000 shield (max), 3350 cargo space

"Democritus" Luxury Yacht (i fly this until i can get the $ for a liner)
~$70million, 5 transport turrets, 1 gunboat turret, 170 000 armor, 100 000 shield (max), 1500 cargo space

okey, so you can buy almost any cruiser for the price of a liner, or a whole fleet of gunboats
now, the shire transport seems to have the most comparable stats, costs 100 million less for some small decreases in amour and cargo space.
then we have the salvager.... some quasi transport/gunboat that could only be dreamed up by the junkers, unlike most ships with a cargo capacity over 3000, it can mount gunboat turrets and a gunboat shield again for $100 million less then the luxury liner.
the yacht I fly can mount a gunboat turret! it also has the handling of a gunboat, 10 000 less armor then a liner, a much smaller cargo space, but it's tiny compared to liners.
How is it so well armored, so cheap, so maneuverable, and able to mount a gunboat turret?

so before we worry about spam, i'd like to see some small and fair (i think so, but trial by forums) changes.

tl;dr? read this

Liners should be able to mount gunboat shields at the least , you would think they would be slightly more shielded then the average BW transport, also i'd like to see the armor rating upgraded to be similar to small cruisers (200 000 - 250 000), they are already as big as a battleship and have the handling of them. also it's a luxury liner and has bars and such taking up room, so i'd happily trade off some of my cargo space for extra the armor.
too many players will object if they can out shoot their gunboats, so i wont even touch the issue of transport turrets.
but is this extra defense reasonable?

Edit, put in quotes and mentioned trading off cargo space

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