Please don't scrap it, Jinx. It does its job perfectly well and bloody looks the part. There are excellent reasons for its looks, which you have already provided, and if somebody wants to build the GC their own Gunboat they can bloody well do it without impinging on the Gaian's sole unique ship. This seems to me to be a very vocal minority, and I don't think that the complainers actually play Gaians (ahem).
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' Wrote:Please don't scrap it, Jinx. It does its job perfectly well and bloody looks the part. There are excellent reasons for its looks, which you have already provided, and if somebody wants to build the GC their own Gunboat they can bloody well do it without impinging on the Gaian's sole unique ship. This seems to me to be a very vocal minority, and I don't think that the complainers actually play Gaians (ahem).
Well, I've been... thinking about playing a Gaian...
But alright. I can see the Gaians like the Claymore, so I won't press the issue further. The Claymore belongs to the Gaians, and ever more shall do, amen. I do hope, though, that the ideas about a GC Gunboat, FA Gunboat and Gaian Yacht Thingy will be considered.
Why i think, that this mod end with all shipclasses for all factions? No more bombers vs gband so,because when you see enemy with bc, you undock your bc and so
haha, the whole "Well I've been thinking about playing X faction" really doesn't count for much eh? I thought about playing a Gaian... and then I did! We'd be happy to have you, of course.
And there's no way that every faction will get every type of ship. Because honestly, what are the Gaians going to do with anything bigger than a gunboat anyways? The bigger a ship is, the bigger of a target it becomes, and most unlawful groups don't want to become a big target, or else the Navy will come bearing down on them and crush them like bugs. The factions that currently have full shiplines pretty much all make sense and need them.
1: The Claymore stays Gaian. Too many implications otherwise.
2: The Claymore (and by extension, the GC VHF) looks Phallic (and I am going to press that point every time I see one)
3: If, by Pipboy's logic, the GC had very few if any allies, then that would be incentive to get atleast SOME heavier firepower incase things got ugly. Though that is not entirely true. The GC have the Outcasts, the Dragons do not dislike them, only their Cardamine use. Lane Hackers are willing to support them, the Junkers directly supply them, Bretonia supplies them, as well as to some degree foriegn corperations like Synth Foods and Interspace (and the GMG and Kishiro tend to look the other way from their actions). And this is not taking into accound player-created entities like the \CS\ and Sw.
Given this, the GC would have more then sufficient capacity to manufacture larger ship hulls (even capital ships if they wanted to, in theory). The main issues being Maintaining such a large fleet, weather it would benefit them in the long run, be cost effective, etc.
When the GC do fight something, they tend to perfer hit-and-run strikes with swarms of smaller craft. A gunboat could concivably fit into this, but it would have to be more specialised. Something with higher-then-average manuverability, and probably pulling multiple duty as a sort of AWACS/Flotilla leader and Repair/Refuel ship to increase the range of it's attendant fighters. Assuming that logic passes, weapons would mainly be for self defense and fire support.
Although, that dosen't nessiscarily mean the GC are going to invest the time and effort into building their own Gunboat chassis. They can (and do) use the Outcast gunboat, for what they'd ever need a gunboat for. Given that the Dragons are a bit stingy about selling out their stuff to anyone, they'd be far more likely to use Outcast equipement anyway.
If the GC did make a gunboat, I'm toying with ideas for a departure from the norm. Perhaps something that is armored and industrial looking which the GC hackjobbed into a production model (adding various wingy bits and whatnot).
The gaians let the AFA ues there funboats.The only other caps the AFA has, are yachts, and a lux liner.I dont think we have actaully BOUGHT a claymore yet,But ill be the first:yahoo:
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