Liberty Navy [LN] Feedback Thread

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So Zoner turrets being better than Liberty turrets is logical?:lol:

Got to keep balance in mind and that said turrets were designed for a 4-gun Gunboat if I remember right so said Gunboat would be balanced out against other Gunboats. Said Gunboat saw a change to a sixshooter but the turrets were left unchanged (for whatever the reason, guessing time constraints), and with the advent of the tech-chart became open-use for, if I remember right, all "generic" IDs.
I think we currently have several of such "issues" when it comes to use of certain technologies, the Zoner weaponry for generic IDs being just one of them where something good is taken to a brutally efficient level (in the case of Zoner Gunboat turrets) due to a tech-chart loophole.

Given that the tech-chart was, from what I have gathered, instated with little if no regards to actual gameplay balancing it was obvious that said loophole and others would be found and abused simply because it's possible. But yeah, given that said turrets were designed with other goals in mind than currently seen in gameplay, it must have been logical from the developers' side at the time the statistics etc. were made as the focus was gameplay balance, with the tech-chart coming later and messing that up in this area.

I suppose what people's beef with the Zoner-gun issue might be, disregarding all of the RP aspects around and behind it, is that currently the Liberty Navy has the potential to capitalize on the above-mentioned loophole, which itself puts a bad light on the faction, as the [LN] potentially now could do what every random generic ID user can freely do, namely strap on Zoner shooters. Once again, I stress the "potential" part, how the [LN] acts from now on remains to be seen. To add insult to potential injury, the [LN], were it to capitalize on it, would end up doing so not as one Dude McRandom, but as a whole official faction, and since we're on Discovery it wouldn't be "David Hale is using Zoner shooters! OMG!", it would be - as can be seen starting now - "[LN] is using Zoner shooters! OMG!" - despite the fact that it ain't the entire [LN] and, from what I've gathered, just a select few people. (Was it to be five now or something? I forgot.) This however is the [LN]'s own fault for, well, getting them / that deal / whatever, so yeah.

Anyway like I said, potential, so I'd rather wait how it plays out if the issue for people is more the above, the RP I didn't look into myself, so whether it's fishy or not or whatever, no clue.