guys really, liberty is the only house a new player can start in, unless we re-gear all houses to be equally low level.
currently we have variants to all house fighters that are comparable(all able to mount high level weapons), the vanilla ones would need to be nerfed and raised to be equal as well, while being the price of liberty ships.
if this was achieved, new players, whatever house they started in, would be able to work their way up the houses ship ladder, and you'd fight similar strength NPC's in rhineland as you would in bretonia and liberty.
lots of tweaking around numbers for every factions ships and guns, not fun