' Wrote:Which is ridiculous since it is "hardcore" RP for a group like the Hessians to have these ships. The problem comes when most rather than a few of the ships flown are "captured", this is when the RP breaks down.
In any case I was advocating these ships be sold at Vogtland perhaps. Example: Red Hessian Gunboat which looks on the outside like a Rheinland GB but has a few differences in configuration - it is techinically a captured vessel but has been refit at Vogtland.
And Korrd, Red Hessians do produce their own Cruisers you know. They're not a scattered bunch of cells, they are a solid organization. Perhaps not a formal "nation" but I don't see how that can matter with their popular support and their facilities.
There's also the down scale version of the Red Hessian Cruiser sold at the Junker base in Omega 15. Pirates (and others) would be more in RP if they obtained captured / junked ships from the Junkers who find wreckage and rebuild them from their corpses into functional down scale versions of the original. I find this would be better RP than claiming you "captured" it. Perhaps in the next beta we can see various faction ships (both lawful and unlawful) able to be purchased at the various Junker bases. This would allow everyone to get the ship they want - but with lesser capabilities of the one actually owned by the faction. The Red Hessian Cruiser in Dresden is slightly more powerful than the one sold in Omega 15. But the one at Omega 15 is pretty much open for anybody to get.
