Petition: Royal Liners (And Possibly Even Luxury Liners)

[dr lameos]

P.S. In that case original designers of the game stole the ship from the "Fifth Element".

You could more accurately say that's stolen from ocean liners, or the lib dread is stolen from modern-day battleships... funny that.

As to this idea, there are too many royal liners bumbling about, when really there should only be a very few. However, that's not to say they should be SRP only, the admins have a lot to do already, and like said - it isn't a 'fantastic ship' in terms of trade or combat. There are many many 'rare' ships which are actually all over the place, I'd rather not see them all limited

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[Eppy]

You could more accurately say that's stolen from ocean liners, or the lib dread is stolen from modern-day battleships... funny that.

As to this idea, there are too many royal liners bumbling about, when really there should only be a very few. However, that's not to say they should be SRP only, the admins have a lot to do already, and like said - it isn't a 'fantastic ship' in terms of trade or combat. There are many many 'rare' ships which are actually all over the place, I'd rather not see them all limited

Yes, but you see, the Royal Liner is crap. It can't make money, and its full defensive potential (which makes even less money) still isn't enough to ward off a lone bomber or a Gunboat unless you're unusually close to a friendly/neutral base, at which point you get insulted for 'poor Arr Pee.' If we have to restrict it to get its full potential realized than so be it, but I bloody intend to keep playing this ship and I am going to fight tooth and nail until I can fly the damn thing without getting pirated by every Tom, Dick and Harry with a CD who guesses which path around the trade lanes I'm going to take.

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Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen

Which Dreadnought was that?

One of your nine.

[dead_shot]

If you don't want to give credits to pirates then don't fly a trader ship and/or don't do common routes, also known as "power trade" routes.

This coming from a guy who among his 15ish chars has zero, nada, nicht pirate chars...


EDIT: my point: traders trade, pirates do pirating, hunters hunt pirates, police, army, companies, Nomads... = FL Discovery

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the path to hell is paved with good intentions!

[Eppy]

If you don't want to give credits to pirates then don't fly a trader ship and/or don't do common routes, also known as "power trade" routes.

This coming from a guy who among his 15ish chars has zero, nada, nicht pirate chars...
EDIT: my point: traders trade, pirates do pirating, hunters hunt pirates, police, army, companies, Nomads... = FL Discovery

You don't get it, do you, bud? A liner can fly two routes. Do your own damn addition. Moreover, what part of VIRTUAL CRUISER do you not understand? We all have to trade if we intend to support larger ships, and it used to be that I quite enjoyed trading until it became more difficult than actually killing something in a fighter (which, over 2.5 years I have done exactly six times).

EDIT: Barring weapons dealers, who are the only people who spam liners.

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Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen

Which Dreadnought was that?

One of your nine.

[Donutman]

Oi, dude, how many times do we have to tell people, you don't get special RP ships or into the Phantoms/Keepers/Wilde by sucking up to the admins. Zapp says most of em are tired of him and Jihad is the only one that really likes him, and he's in the Phantoms, the Keepers, and has more than one special RP ship.

Just cause there admins doesn't mean they abuse there power.

And the Lux liner in game looks nothing like the one from the Fifth Element.

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This thread is so stupid that a bird sitting on a nearby tree just EXPLODED.

[JovialKnight]

If you don't want to give credits to pirates then don't fly a trader ship and/or don't do common routes, also known as "power trade" routes.

This coming from a guy who among his 15ish chars has zero, nada, nicht pirate chars...
EDIT: my point: traders trade, pirates do pirating, hunters hunt pirates, police, army, companies, Nomads... = FL Discovery

This applies to all I assume? Such as house corp traders?
[sarcasm]I hear that planetform has a real slew of routes[/sarcasm]

Not everyone has a trader who can go everywhere, and therefore, dodge the masses of pirates.

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[Marcus Lindberg]

I find there are too many luxury liners. Thats pretty much my only reasoning for making them special RP request. Although I don't think the prison liner or the slave liner should be included. And for the members of PanGal and OSC, I think they should be discluded from the special RP request. As soon as you get to join those factions, you should be able to get the Liners.

Hopefully this we'll see those two factions grow larger and see less random indies with luxury liners.

[dead_shot]

Once the ship gets on the SRP list it gets buffed and impossible to obtain and destroy. There's only one Mon'Star I would prefer it stays that way


EDIT:
P.S. House and corporation traders are NOT supposed to be flying without escorts. That makes them safe. Only ones I see being pirated now days are indies. Get yourself escort and you're safe.

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the path to hell is paved with good intentions!

[Donutman]

Dude, its not gonna get gunboat turrets again. There will only ever be one Mon Star. Stop being so negative.

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This thread is so stupid that a bird sitting on a nearby tree just EXPLODED.

[dead_shot]

I'm not negative, my stance towards exclusivity and special treatment of small group of people on server i.e. elitism is extremely negative though,

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the path to hell is paved with good intentions!