fuck sake shhhhh, remember last time someone noticed one class was unequal in trade slaves... you got the whole lot fucked up! admins will balls this up and give us flying cardboard boxes or some shit.

kiko nailed it. You can't market SS as a sandbox game if combat classes affect building ability. I don't want to be flamed for making any of several radical suggestions to resolve this, but it's clear that something a bit drastic would need to happen to actually even the playing field for base-building. This spills over into storage ships too, by the way. The easiest thing I can think of is to make all storage-type ships (Gelato, Thatch, Sing Sphere) a new hull type that no class gives bonuses to, and boost their natural hull space to bring them to the level currently enjoyed by Support Focus. I'm not championing this change, but simply pointing out that something that drastic would have to happen if we wanted to call SS a sandbox game.

To the person who argued that Speed Demon DFs go faster than Engineer DFs, I'd like to point out that apart from even being able to transport one piece of Anni gear at all (difficult for SD DF), the salient figure is Speed x Capacity, in which Support Focus completely dominates Speed Demon.

Am i missing something? last i checked a SD can use a SS and sing brake