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Originally posted by WhiteHojo:
Spyder - I agree w/the bonus to intel but for another reason - thought pirates wld be difficult to infiltrate so wanted a bonus to intell defensive ops (the counter I suppose is that a pirate has no loyalty and should be easier to co-op via PPP or crew insurrections)
the maintainence, to me, shld be lower simply due to the old axiom "practice makes perfect" - if you know your ships inside and out and realize there parts/resources are limited, you'll take care of what you have. Besides if I bumped the maint cost up coupled w/the lower resources, they wouldn't be able to field any ships.
keep the ideas commin though
But, if you know your history you'll know that pirates didn't do Maintenance (Maintain is root word)...they canabilized from captured ships and when their own ship got too bad off, they scuttled it and used a captured ship. They didn't do much real maintenance...only what was required, and what the captain could make them do. Their discipline was pretty poor....
Now, I WOULD give them the Recycle techs right off because they were great at using whatever they had on hand to accomplish their mission.
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Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium
[This message has been edited by Spyder (edited 01 March 2001).]