Police factions

[fwolf]

I was to send this in a pm to another player (lots of pm's these days), but I think I will put this in the open, as might serve to more people.

As you can see, nobody who creates house factions want to play as police, but as military. The reason for this is clear: most pirates are using gunboats, and as the police can only use light fighters (as we can see in npc behaviour) they dont stood a chance against gunboats. And police using very heavy fighters and bombers is out of place, you cant simply authorize the use of torpedos for police personel.

Because discovery is unbalanced, my proposal was for a new type of gunboat, a policial one without the forward gun, something along the lines of a coast guard ship (to use a real life example). Gunboats dont use torpedos, they use missiles, strong missiles but still missiles. I was to put that in the mod discussion, but I known that my opinions are flamed all the time, and anything that I propose is discarded without a second thought, so I put here for factions: authorize the use of gunboats for policial forces.

Also, any house military player faction can create a sub-faction using the police tag, and using light fighters and gunboats. In this way, they can let some ships in the house systems to guard it against pirates, and use their main ships, the military ones, in some military campaign.