Traders, opinions from a pirate

[Agmen of Eladesor]

I also head a trading company - and have lots of big, shiny warships, too.

My trading ships - they HAVE crew, food, oxygen, and assorted RP device items onboard. (Hell, my passenger ship carries luxury items, too, and a fairly large crew for no larger a ship than it is.) What am I losing - 15 cargo hold worth of space to have stuff in there to represent a living, breathing ship? (Or 70, for my passenger ship - but that's part of being a passenger ship.)

My warships? Yeah, well, they tend to go boom fairly frequently, and so on them, while I'd like to have crew, it's a rare time that I actually have crew or supplies on them. My battleship - yeah, it's primarily there as a role-play ship, and I'm gathering the appropriate crew and others. Battlecruiser, destroyer, and other combat vessels? No - on this, Mwerte is right as far as the hassle upon destruction.

And THANK YOU for pointing out exactly the issue with flying toasters.

Harvester ships MAY have some biological components on board - but we're mostly electronics. Those ships do NOT have ANY kind of cabin space for crew - period. So every Tom, Dick, and Harry that wants one because they're cool - they need to be AI only, and with an AI ID. Which means that if you aren't a member of the Harvesters, you ought to have some special RP posted to get said AI ID. Those really should be a restricted ship.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.