fully understandable but why should they improve the biggest baddest nastiest ships to be even bigger badder nastier?Makes no sense in the eyes of RP.
Just cause faction leaders ,,deserves,, somthin' even bigger? It is still the who has bigger...world case?
Or just cause they are so good and trustworthy roleplayers that they NEED even bigger ships to keep up their good work? It makes no sense.
In other words:
special unique ships for factions : Okey sure thing (if it mean uniques fighters, freighters, transports, possible gunboats or so- wiht graphic improvement, with tags colours markings painted on them (example: barghest I think that is really a unique ship with amazing stats in its category, and it would be easy to paint one to green put some leaf on it and tell its the Molly unique bomber)
super mega giga battleships: hell no. No need for even bigger battleships (ofc in SOME SPECIAL cases its okey. Give 1 (!!!) or 2 (!!!) factions a super bs, than wait for a year or more till the other factons will be able to reach that level. I think it would not destroy the balance.
summa summarum:
Uniquie ships sure: all offical faction would deserve it (start painting instead of building full new things)
Super mega battleships: hell no. irreal and anti rp that all factons come out in the wery same mod with their biggest baddest vehicles. Pfff..
so many developers graphicians artists mouth-openers, and noone started to re-paint some ships for the offical factions to represent their colours in space? Swap some engines, re-paint some models add MINIMAL stat improvements(+5-10 thrust speed,+1 cm or mine dropper,+200 cargo space or whatever) on otherwise balanced and correct little vessels and voila :you have a huge pack of unique (and even powerful) ships for officals. and that would be RP case and somthing what is uesful for newcomers in the factions.
BUt seriously you are talking about charming new palyers to the factions with superhuge battleships? eek...
Building even bigger gunholders=you want even bigger guns. And thats not rp. its called military advantage aka PVP. WHY do you need even BIGGER ships instead of ships with proper colours and some minimal added stats?