Poll: Capships, abuse, input . . .

[RonG777]

Forgive me if I appear to be brash, I honestly do no intend this. The reason I created this poll is to help me understand why so many players here are against independent players who fly Battle ships. In all the years I have played here, I have had very few encounters where a player in a battleship has behaved in an OORP fashion, or even played against the old "gentleman's" rules of long ago . . .

I ask you to please answer the questions as honestly as you can, this data can help me get a better understanding of the communities view on this . . .

And with the recent debate on not Allowing Independent players to own a Battleship, http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46294

One option in that poll is that Battle ships would only be allowed to factions, and independents if their RP and behavior was proven satisfactory to either the faction or other entity . . .

Based on this, the last question on my poll is, if this would be the decision, would you (owner of a battleship) be willing to give up your ship and start over in the next Mod to prove your RP? . . Granted, (in this scenario, All official factions would be allowed one battleship to own) . . .

I am really trying to view this long debated problem from a neutral view. (which is hard to do) . . .
I hope by gathering this data from the community I can come to an honest and fair conclusion . . .

If you feel that I am wasting your time by asking these questions, then I apologize . .
If you do not and contribute, I thank you for you time and help .

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[Galacius]

wiping something that can cost upwards of 1600 mil? What?

[Montezuma/Kukulcan]

Yes, you touch my legate and i will sacrafice you in the most painful way i know how (so painful you will wish it to end before it has begun).

I feel BSs should be restricted by official factions though, not just wiped all together. Maybe all indy BSs should be put up for review by official factions, as to whether they deserve them or not (and maybe then, and ONLY then should they be removed).

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[Dab]

I don't think all BSs need to be wiped and everyone rebuy and resubmit.. However, everyone should have to make a request for BSs they own. If they don't make that request within 2 months or so, then it gets wiped. That or just require all BSs from that point on have a request, and the old owners keep theirs.

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[Klaw117]

In Gamma and Alpha, there are OORP warships everytime someone attacks. They don't do OORP attacks or have OORP equipment, but they OORP chat a lot or, in the case of the lolwut PvPers who are attacking another system, they exploit the Freeport NFZ if there's one nearby. I voted yes on the wiping BS option, but I'm starting to regret that. Dab makes a good point with the RP request. I think if someone who has a capital ship or wants to get one fails to send a good enough RP story, then their capital ship should be taken away or they cannot legally use that capital ship.

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Carlos Rivera: Corsair Brotherhood Pirate - Retired, shifted to Tripoli Shipyard's Research and Development engineering teams
Anthony Cameron: Guild Core Bounty Hunter - Killed in Action, committed suicide after being trapped in Omicron Minor following its destruction
Juan Ruiz: Outcast Ghost of Razgriz Pirate - Killed in Action, killed by the Sirius Coalition Revolutionary Army during Bretonian piracy raid
Michael Winchester: Liberty Security Force Agent - Missing in Action, likely killed during Rheinland espionage mission or trapped in Rheinland Space
Eric McCormick: Order Pilot - Retired, shifted to planetside training of new recruits

Liberty and Nomad Backstory, Very interesting - read it!

[Sprolf]

I agree with these chaps here.
RP request first, battleship being taken away second.

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[Gamazson]

I don't offen encounter OORP battleships. Rarely if ever due to thier expense, and that has been true for a long time. The most common OORP ships I encounter are cruisers and gunships, so I really do not beleive any further regulation of the specific battleship class is nessary.

I would however like to encourage a license for the other capital ship classes (gunship / cruiser / liners), only because no one needs to own more than one of each.

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AKA Nexus

[Galacius]

I think I wouldnt be against having to put up a forum rp story (i'd do it anyway with a capship), but my problem is with having it ok'd by a faction/special rp request just to have it.

I think if you started taking away peoples ships (specially if someone was on a trip and you took it away while they where gone?) discovery would lose a lot of people.

[Janus]

When did Liners become capships? I wouldn't mind seeing all capships (Cruiser and up) becoming "white" for their own faction, player faction or otherwise.

[Gamazson]

I treat a liner as a capital class trading vessel due to thier power, size and armor. It takes as much to build a single liner as most warships take to construct.

EDIT: Besides I have been wanting to see them get a buff, a restriction would allow that.

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AKA Nexus