cap ship limiting

[RickJames]

Frozen Wrote:
(btw, im not picking on you, just some of the points made, made me reply to em)

No worries.:)

to this, id like to say: not everyone likes to fly a god-damned cap ship (sorry, im a bit anti cap ships atm) so thats why they dont buy them.

But other people do like to fly them. Why should they be punished just because you do not like them.

and also, suppose a fl bs fleet was headed to their enemy, who are an actual faction here. the faction has 1-2 bs while their enemies have 3-4 of them. they cant get out more than they have, since their own restrictions prevent more cap ships. what to do in a situation like that, except use the chars availiable at hand, even if its a light fighter?

Again, Corsairs are a good example because there are a ton of different player factions. If a bunch of outcasts are heading to Crete, and it is not some planned one player faction against the other, then all Corsair player factions and independent Corsairs are going to defend Crete.

and your last line in that quote.. im not sure, but are you trying to say, break the rules of re-engaging with a diff character? it seems like that to me..

Im saying keep track of character who have capships. If you see a ton of enemies heading to your system, and you know some of them are in BSs. I do not see it as breaking any rules for some players on the side about to be attacked to switch to charaters that have BSs before the battle begins.
Is that breaking the rule?

You cannot transfer ships to another players. So most people with them are going to be the same people all the time. If your in a player faction I hope they are organized enough to have a database on what their enemies are flying. At least concerning Capships. If Outcasts see RickJames heading to Gamma, they should all know I am in an Osiris. Once I am in Eta, they should make preparations for me to enter Alpha. At that point, of me being in Eta, I would enourage one or two the outcasts to launch BSs from Malta. And as I mentioned if all the Outcasts are of one player faction, one of them could have an independent Outcast character with a BS.

I wish I had a solution that would make everyone happy.