' Wrote:I'm a bit confused that the pirate factions have hull busters and shield busters but the House factions, which would have a much larger research and development as well as the capital to fund the weapons, dont. If House ships stayed strickly to house weapons they would get pounded into dirt. Or is it considered well within RP for a House BB to chip away at the armor of a Outcast DN while the Outcast tears off huge chunks of the BB? The only equalizing thing I have seen thus far is that mortars are available to House factions due to their being sold at a Zoner base. There are no shield breakers for House factions which is odd as I would have expected the House factions to develop then long before the pirates would have.
Pirates tend to raid for their equipment not develop it themselves.
Houses during wartime increase their development at least 3 fold to stay ahead of their enemy.
So again..why would pirates have something that a House faction would not or did I miss something somewhere that stated that pirates were more advanced then any House?
It would be nice for each house to have their own "style" of weapon systems.
Liberty - Balanced across the board.
Bretonia - Longer range - less damage.
Kusari - Higher speed - shorter range.
Rheinland - Lower ROF - higher damage.
thing is....Outcasts are super rich....and Corsairs are dedicated to the hispanic war their entire lives, and they are always at war...so, where the houses occasionaly increase their research threefold, the Hispanics are always doing super research into weapon's tech.
