PowerPlay - Unlock stronger Weapons/Tools

[coca_fr]

When we unlock a weapon/tools it should give significant advantages for Each Powers in a domain.

- Unlock buffed tools (FSD interdict, cargo hack...) (+20% efficiency) with Pirates power.
- Unlock buffed mining tools than normal (+40% efficiency)
- Unlock buffed explorer tools (FSD, Planet scanner...etc.)
- etc.

All powers have specific technology enhancement for specific modules.
Any modules on your ship that fall in your power technological specificity receive an extra boost.

If you leave your power and are destroyed you loose this module. If you are still on the power you get it's replaced for free.

Give incensitive for other things than trading, and hunting !
Give some power advantages in mining, explore, pirating...

PowerPlay could be fun for any role you choose. Just make each power more specific.

 

[Snarfbuckle]

Having items lock being a faction "paywall" and having to grind for them is just stupid.

-Each power manages to keep ONE item secret and ONLY give them to people within that faction.

-No other power has managed to steal, copy or reverse engineer the same tech?

In a universe of hundreds of BILLIONS of people no tech could stay so controlled - especially since I can SELL the darn things in other factions stations.

And they cant reverse engineer the very gun I just gave them?

 

[coca_fr]

In our current world you have companies, countries, that are leading in their field with no competitor around.

Wacom for example. If you want an good graphic tablet, you choose nothing but Wacom. In 20 years no other company has managed to make as good quality product as them.
Intel is always leading in his field. Their processor even if more expensive than AMD are leading in all aspect and especially in power consumption (wich means his cpu run much more cooler).
All countries can make good air planes and satelites but the two leading power in those field are Europe and USA...
Many countries in Europe (France, Italy, Spain...) produces food product that are specific to their countries that have no copy or competitor from dedaces...

In fact each countries in our world specialize in some domain and it should be the case in Elite Dangerous.
We already have rare goods and some specific ships for each Power, but i think we should go more into that specialization.

Some Power should specialized in mining, other in exploration...etc. For now apart from what is forbidden or not, all stations, Powers, look alike.

As concerned to guns, you should make some research because each country have produced and are producing weapons that are so different from each other : M16, Kalashnikov, Famas, P90... just to name a few.

Some countries (Power) have made differents decisions. For example Japan invested in Magnetic Levitation Train whereas France decided to focus on High Speed Train

It's not because you have a technology that others are going to copy you right away and make the same...