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C# Mechanics / Re: Potential Changes to Shipping Lines
« Last post by nuclearslurpee on Today at 08:25:59 AM »I get that armed civilians would give you that East India Company vibe but for any other type of setting, it would not fit at all. Airlines do not operate fighter jets and Maersk does not own any battleships. I'm strongly against giving civilians the ability to build armed escorts or to put weapons on commercial designs or civilian ships.
Beyond this, it also would not work very well for gameplay. If the civilian ship armaments are not very good, then they're basically useless and just a waste of civilian ships. If the armaments are actually useful, then there's no real need to defend civilians from Raiders if they can do it themselves, so a key new area of gameplay is basically trivialized. Probably best not to do that...