Some Freighter/Transport Questions

[Igiss]

That is horrible roleplay.

You are welcome to find another server with a better roleplay. If you think that low-level players should not exist at all, and should not have any ships to use, then Discovery is obviously a wrong mod choice.

Distinction between freighters and transports comes from Vanilla. All player-flyable trading crafts are called "freighters". Larger NPC trading ships are called transports. Armored transport, transport, large transport. There are other names (like Train, or Lifter), but they are less generic. Given the limited options to customize ships that are availabel in Freelancer, it's not possible to divide the trading ships into two separate groups (like top-level VHFs and LFs, or something like that). I don't see what a transport cannot provide compared to a freighter. Agility? Not much needed, since such ships cannot participate in combat. Defensive capabilities? How can a freighter that's 10 times smaller than a transport have nearly as much hit points, shield and power capacity?

As for IDs and roleplaying: I think that nearly all factions will be allowed to fly transports with their "native" IDs, including pirate IDs, and even military IDs. We got a wrong practice when factions use transports with different IDs to get richer, and this will have to stop.

Cargo volume cannot differ from ship to ship. I know that there were suggestions about VIPs and passengers on liners, but there is no way this can be implemented. I already said that many times. Maybe you'll use search instead of posting same stuff again and again?

I believe that the only way to remove Tau-31-like exploits is to remove such opportunities from the game. Which will be done in 4.84. You cannot change people's minds to make everyone follow RP conventions. Also, before saying that transports are too tough, maybe you play 4.84 first? I hope that everyone who've posted here has been on PvP server in the recent weeks, cause otherwise it's a really pointless discussion.