[Wild_Bill]

Hey Tim, what's the name of that Oct-made size 3 shield again?

[Tim]

hmm.. well, according to game history/rp stuff, octs tend to suffer in terms of shielding.. they may have to run with a size 2 even though their ship _could_ mount a size 3. Course, they've got all that armor.. too bad the quants will have to do without that. The sols, on the other hand, have all those shiny mod-x slots.. if only they could make a duelist to put in them, huh? (granted, the CP fixes that.. perhaps the octs should consider a cp for a sol shield?)

But gosh, now there is all that politics and rp stuff..

Tho yes, and i'm sure one could find a number of gaps in various equipment. Consider flash fires, for instance... which player faction makes those?

But all of that makes for an interactive game, and not just shoot-em-up interaction (which is what generally qualifies as 'interaction')

[Wild_Bill]

Heck Tim, before the most recent "nerf" to it, I would have been happy with the Defier in place of the Solrain Shelter size 3 shield that replaced it on the Raptor. Or the size 4 Mortar that was also replaced by the Solrain Shelter size 3 shield on the Dragon. My point being there should bean Octavian produced size 3 shield. No one should make anything that requires a foreign produced part to function. (i.e. you don't put in a size 3 slot for which no faction produced size 3 equipment exists). I was just jackin' with you Tim. Not your fault the devs screwed up on that one.

[Tim]

lol, no worries, WB.. i know where you are comming from. Just for fun, I mounted that size 3 oct shield on the same ship as my size three laser gun. You know.. the one that compliments the thorns? Yeah.. that's a great gun.