inspired by a fancy bus war we did a few days ago with good participation numbers i'd like to suggest more Bus Hunter badges. and while adding this awesome endgame content, make the reward special bus-weaponry. the badge row would look as follows:

Bus Hunter
Required: Destruction of 50 player-controlled ships while flying an EC-89
Reward: EC-107

Bus Hunter II:
Required: Destruction of 250 player-controlled ships while flying an EC-89
Color of badge: All silver Version of the MkI badge
Reward:

Bus-Gauss Cannon (can only be equipped on EC class ships):
Damage: 1400
Velocity: 195
Energy: 30/blast
Delay: 0.4 s
Mass: 1000kg
Grid: 8
Targetting: very good
License: 10/10/10/-/-

Sold at your nation's capitol.

Master Bus Hunter:
Required: Destruction of 500 player-controlled ships while flying an EC-89
Color of badge: All Gold Version of the MkI badge
Reward:

Bus-Neutron Blaster (can only be equipped on an EC-class ship):
Damage: 700
Velocity: 215
Energy: 15/blast
Delay: 0.14 s
Mass: 400kg
Grid: 8
Targetting: Good
License: 10/10/6/-/-

Sold at your nation's capitol.

the numbers required to unlock this bus-only weaponry may look a little silly, but it's entirely possible in a good bus war with decent participation. the idea behind this is to encourage player hosted Events and get a little more play-together Feeling across the 'verse.
comments and counter suggestions to the weapon stats are welcome. remember that they only fit on a bus, so the current high stats are kinda justified.

Why all the bus-specific weapons?

Rumor has it, Bus Hunter II unlocks the Corvus Vulturius Anniversary Edition...

Not opposed to bus-specific weapons, but being only able to acquire those weapons at nation capitols is worthless. May I ask your rationale for this? They should be all sold at Sedina D-14, because that's where bus wars usually take place. Anywhere else, they end up not being used at all.

Available at nation's capital is fine. Haul occasionally or hire someone to haul it.

abortretryfail - they're mainly just fancy contents to unlock and to be somthing to look forward to when doing bus wars. and they can be used in advanced bus wars and maybe even in pvp training sessions? i could imagine grabbing an ec 107, giving it the bus-gauss and tripping to b8...

joylessjoker - i simply didnt want to spam nations with more items. so making them capitol-sold only made sense. espcially since the governments provide you with EC-class ships actually. but as Harpo said, it also makes for an additional risky haul through space

I'm not complaining about this - after all, an additional reason for anybody to purchase warranties is a good thing for me. However I question how many people would actually do it, haul the stuff half an universe away. Especially when it's only for ships that nobody but newbs use until they get access to revenant, and not even them can use the weapons until they get the required badges.