D'Tell Annoh
4Sight Enterprises
Pulsar Prime
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Posted - 2012.01.20 23:22:00 -
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Domukuan II wrote:D'Tell Annoh wrote:Why make 4 different racial versions of basically the same ship?
Just make it an ORE ship. There are multiple reason you would not have a single ORE ship:
- RP Reason: Of the non-empire factions the ORE is the least likely to be using one of these for hauling entire ships around - they already have a ship for that. This task would likely fall to the InterBus. InterBus maintains careful neutrality and would not be caught dead ferrying anything that could be considered militaristic (ie: warships). This is what makes Imperial Shipment, CBD Corporation, Transstellar Shipping, and Freedom Extension stay in business.
- Practical RP reason: An ORE variant of the ship would have the highest amount of HP in shields. Amarr and Gallente would make their own versions that would be more suited for being supported by Oneires. Guardians, Thanates, or Archons.
- Practical reason: Many pilots have already trained one racial Industrial to V for the use of blockade runners, deep space transports, or freighters. This ship is designed to be useful not only from the perspective of industrial pilots but also from the point of combat pilots that are changing base.
Good points all around. I still think it's going the long way around to get to where you want to go, but I see your thinking.
What if the ship had an array of bonuses for each level in racial industrial? Like a bonus to shields for each level of one race, and a a bonus to armor for another, align time for another... etc... Does that just invite abuse? It would make people who have cross trained a lot more powerful potentially, but really when you consider the nature of the ship it doesn't seem so bad. No high slots and only a couple low and medium slots doesn't sound like this could be turned into a war machine - it's a tug.
I've never really understood why there are so few ships that don't fall neatly into a faction's category. I'd prefer to see a big pile of ships that aren't built to fit the stereotypes of a given race.
I still support your idea. This just seems more like an ORE ship from my RP point of view. |