I agree with ljuin when he said:
Well the biggest problem is that Liberty and Bretonia have no high-level fighter or weapons. If they had some level 8 weapons and a level 8 HF that could mount them, then they would be more of a force to be reckoned with gamewise.
There are quite a few problems with the game, like how NPCs never use shield batteries or nanobots, yet you can still loot these from them. I think what was said earlier about the high seas best explains it.
But surely it'd be easier to have an EMP like on the Matrix to disable enemy ships(you seen revolutions yet, its amazing lol, a lil off topic). Because the hovercrafts of the Matrix are civilian ships in a sense, so surely they have some defenses, so why not in FL?
I think that civilian heavy fighters do sound like an oxymoron, as Papa_MegaMan so eloquently put it. And why the hell do factions like the GMG (civilian), Orbital Spa and Cruise (Civilian), Bowex (Civilian) and the IMG (Civilian again) have patrols? The GMG patrol the clouds in Sigma-19, Orbital Spa in Cortez and Stuttgart, Bowex in Tau-23 near their gate construction site base, and the IMG in Dublin. It is a mixed up Sirius sector, but its still a great game

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