Frankly, the Parsec Class ship sale is the biggest farce ever created. The idea of selling a ship for almost 700k cry with an additional charge of close to 800k cry for armor, followed by arming the darn thing for another close to 100k cry is absolutely ridiculous. This coupled by the fact that without the armor the Parsec Class ship is weaker than a Sol Rank 45 ship with armor, is an offense to anyone with even marginal common sense.
Reality being key to this issue, dictates that the Game Maker correct this problem. The Parsec Class ship should waltz through the entire SOL System as though the strongest SOL Mantis a simple fly to swat away in annoyance. The Parsec Class ship should not even require armor until the next solar system, and should not be threatened at all by SOL System weaponry at all. The Parsec Class ship costs 5 times the amount of the SOL Class ships and should be at least an equal amount stronger, with the only limitations being the weaponry installed. People who have bought the Parsec Class ships should not have to even raise this issue, as the correction should have been made subsequent to the first sale of the ships.
Even if they stregthen the Parsec Class ship 5 times stronger than the SOL ships, the Game Maker stands to profit from mutiple weaponry upgrades to the Parsec Class ships as its progress through the solar systems continue at a figure of no less than 200k cry. If you add it up, the Parsec Class ship will cost the owner close to 2 Million in cry before it reaches the solar system it is intended for. How many SOL Class ships can you buy for that much money? After you do that calculation, stregnthening the Parsec Class accordingly should not be so difficult.
On another note, yesterdays bug fix appears to have created additional problems for the Parsec Class ship. Although there is nothing noted in the posted bug fix information, the speed of the Parsec Class ship has been governed significantly. And, to the point of annoyance. When activating the SOL Afterburner on a Parsec Class ship, it appears as though the Parsec Class ship reduces speed and the duration of the afterburner is cut by close to 25%.
Apparently, buyers of the Parsec Class ship have been sold "water" in a "near-beer" bottle for a "champagne" price and find it acceptable . . .
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