Note: This is all meaningless, but thinking about things in these terms made me quite satisfied, so I thought I would share the joy.
I've been kind of frustrated at the lack of content for Alliance players. Thematicallly, I like them the best, but the Feds and Imperials have all the pretty ships (not to mention plot).
This game strokes my obsession to categorize things like nothing else, and while working out my own naval classification system for the Federal and Imperial navies (because I am lame like that), I realized that ships already exist that fall perfectly into these categories for an Alliance navy.
This all wrapped in my (maybe flawed, I don't care) perception that each faction's Navy shares a single ship manufacturer, a single "style", and needs ships that for the following invented categories: Ships-of-the-line, for the player-ownable big ones; heavy multipurpose vessels, a class below the big ones, but able to do just about anything; heavy fighters, with some multirole flexibility; and light fighters.
The Feds have Core Dynamics, and their range reflects the Feds militaristic bent by being the most combat-focused of the bunch: Corvette (ship of the line), Dropship/Assault Ship/Gunship (heavy multirole), Vulture (heavy fighter), and Eagle (light fighter).
The Imperials have Gutamaya, whose ships reflect the Imperials preference for style and speed: Cutter (ship of the line), Clipper (heavy multirole), Courier (heavy fighter), and iEagle (light fighter).
And this would mean that the Alliance has Faulcon De Lacey, whose ships reflect the Alliance's reliance on trading between often-far-flung worlds, meaning they need decent cargo capacity and range, all while still needing effective combat performance when required: Anaconda (ship of the line), Python (heavy multirole), Viper Mk IV (heavy fighter), and Sidewinder (light fighter).
The only difference here is that the Alliance naval ships, like the Alliance, are not rank-locked.
Sure it's all meaningless, and it's only a matter of perspective, but happiness or sadness is all perspective anyway, so why not choose a perspective that gives the Alliance a navy that's effectively the equal of what's available to the Feds or Imps?
I've been kind of frustrated at the lack of content for Alliance players. Thematicallly, I like them the best, but the Feds and Imperials have all the pretty ships (not to mention plot).
This game strokes my obsession to categorize things like nothing else, and while working out my own naval classification system for the Federal and Imperial navies (because I am lame like that), I realized that ships already exist that fall perfectly into these categories for an Alliance navy.
This all wrapped in my (maybe flawed, I don't care) perception that each faction's Navy shares a single ship manufacturer, a single "style", and needs ships that for the following invented categories: Ships-of-the-line, for the player-ownable big ones; heavy multipurpose vessels, a class below the big ones, but able to do just about anything; heavy fighters, with some multirole flexibility; and light fighters.
The Feds have Core Dynamics, and their range reflects the Feds militaristic bent by being the most combat-focused of the bunch: Corvette (ship of the line), Dropship/Assault Ship/Gunship (heavy multirole), Vulture (heavy fighter), and Eagle (light fighter).
The Imperials have Gutamaya, whose ships reflect the Imperials preference for style and speed: Cutter (ship of the line), Clipper (heavy multirole), Courier (heavy fighter), and iEagle (light fighter).
And this would mean that the Alliance has Faulcon De Lacey, whose ships reflect the Alliance's reliance on trading between often-far-flung worlds, meaning they need decent cargo capacity and range, all while still needing effective combat performance when required: Anaconda (ship of the line), Python (heavy multirole), Viper Mk IV (heavy fighter), and Sidewinder (light fighter).
The only difference here is that the Alliance naval ships, like the Alliance, are not rank-locked.
Sure it's all meaningless, and it's only a matter of perspective, but happiness or sadness is all perspective anyway, so why not choose a perspective that gives the Alliance a navy that's effectively the equal of what's available to the Feds or Imps?
