Once upon a time those datacards had been surely handed out to various ship producers.
And then Admin stated that new factions would not get such a benefit, not for new ships and not for old ones.
Or do you refer to those new factions that nonetheless produce something? Those factions did deals with datacard holders.
"Once upon a time those datacards had been surely handed out to various ship producers.
And then Admin stated that new factions would not get such a benefit, not for new ships and not for old ones."
Surely thats unfair... Isn't that giving the current Data Card holding factions an unfair advantage over smaller competition?
Though this isn't a suggestion forum couldn't it be allowed for Production Factions to purchase the Data cards from the combine like they would to build a city?
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Any faction created after the datacard handout (which was a one-time deal shortly before production, not something that occurred on an ongoing basis) should have been well aware that they would not get any datacards. They knew full well what they were getting into when they created the faction, and some have made themselves successful despite that. Others simply whine about the problems caused by their own lack of planning.
Factions without datacards can negotiate for datacard use with the existing datacard holders. No special provision needs to - or should - be made for these groups.
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