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[Zelot]

I agree with the Idea of making VERY costly to have a BS destroyed. This would make you think very hard about wether to a) Buy the BS in the first place, b) bring out the battleship, except when absolutly nessesary. I think in an RP sense, making it cost a lot to have a BS destroyed in battle makes sense, because a destroyed BS would cost a lot to replace or repair. For some NPC factions, and thier story lines, it could take years to replace a destroyed BS. Keep also in mind that there are several factions on this server that dont have cap ships, (mabye a gunboat or two). I have had to move my Ze'ev character out of Kusari, because every time I would get on, my little IMG gunboat would have 4 or 5 BH destroyers and BS's after me. Thats no fun, I realized that I was spending, literaly hours, just running from big groups of cap ships. I see this allot with the "unoffical" factions, TT LaneSecurity, and Hunters, all of them fly only cap ships. I think people see "unoffical factions" as a way to work together to buy battleships without haveing to follow the same rules as the regular factions. In the thread about the Hunters, one of them said that they were changing affiliations, and we had to be patenit because they need time to get the 600-700 mil per player they needed to do it. Now why on earth would you need a BS for EVERY member of their group. I think Jinx's 1% idea really makes alot of sense. If it could be implemented, I think it would help alot.

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