So it seems one of the biggest peeves people have about BS/BC's is they tend to dominate at times and make it hard for people to have fun/fair battles in fighters.
Many people seem to also agree that BS/BC's should have fighter escorts in order to survive.
So..why not make BS/BC's fairly useless against fighters. Their primary role is to destroy the enemies capships. So why not make them more useless against fighters.
Right off the bat I thought of reducing the refire rate of all gun turrets higher than 1 to 1. Then just up the damage so they still do the same amount they do now per second; they just do it in once shot instead of 2, 3, or 4 shots. This would also make cap vs cap battles much more interesting as well as vastly reducing their effectiveness against fighters.
Now against fighters they have little to worry about unless they become totally swarmed by them. Bombers would become even more useful against them. Please keep in mind this is just an idea for BS/BC's. Cruisers and down would stay the same. Also, like many people have pointed out BS/BC's should always have escorts. A few fighters and maybe an anti-fighter GB setup would help them against bombers.
I think this would go a long way to negating the issues most people have with capwhoreing while still making them fun in BS/BC vs other cap fights. They still have their massive armour and shields so again; fighters would pose little threat unless in large numbers. The change would just make it so if 2 groups are having a good ole fighter battle; the 1 to a dozen independents in BS/BC who join in will not ruin the fight as much.
Newbie players who do nothing but trade to get a BS/BC. They don't form relationships with anyone then they have no one to escort them. Then their BS/BC is not much of a threat at all to people who do not want to fly capships. Folks can just jump in their bombers and deal with it.
It would also reduce the impact of these "all capship" factions springing up. If they all want to fly BS/BC then their going to be in for a mighty big surprise the first time 3-4 bombers come a calling.
It might also force people who do not learn to fly and fight in fighters to learn.
Just a thought since so many people are posting ideas on "fixing" the "capwhore" issue.