Capital Ships and the Future of Discovery RP 24/7

[Thyrzul]

Okay, same difference. Who determines the "proper" use of a Capship? Technically, the Admins/dev team should be the ONLY ones making that decision. Not some small sub-section of the community.

Exactly, but I believe they have already done so and already gave the community guidance through the description of ships, and many lore-related information regarding the status of each faction.

You may not like it that a Zoner group has decided to use their Juggernauts to spearhead some kind of assault/defense, but that should be their decision on how to use their capship, not yours.

I do not like zoners using their caps on an aggressive way, because that is not what I've learnt and experienced from other zoners, that's not what I've read in zoner lore and various infocards suggesting neutrality and diplomatic skills, and most importantly, that's not what the line on the Zoner ID restricting all combat to self defense suggests to me.

Just like anybody else, they neither can do whatever they want just because they got a shipline on par with houses and then somehow they got some lore strapped to them to justify it.

Here's a thought - instead of just restricting BS by ID or via special permission of a faction/group - why don't you just increase the cost of purchase for BSs and all BS-relative weapons and equipment?

I believe reading somewhere that long ago caps used to cost around the 100mils. Now you see where the prices are at. Been done before, it will only lead to more powertrading.

Then....the most dedicated who actually get them are going to be the people who will put in the time/effort to earn the money via trading, mining, etc. (which gives pirates, escorts, etc. more things to do, increasing server activity altogether).

Activity in itself will not grant quality roleplay and proper cap usage, and activity itself is not what we would aim for with cap restriction. Hell yes, such a move could make many leave, but lol, this community is dying any ways, one of the reasons for it being that quality players get fed up with lolwuts and just simply leave. Why shouldn't we keep them instead of said lolwuts?

This seems more of a positive reinforcement for earning caps than simply restricting them.

I foresee no significant change to the current state.

Or...maybe make them build-able from PoBs? There's an idea...

Waaaay more powertrading. But then they could cost commodities instead of simply credits, which I find interesting, so yes, I can agree with this idea, just like I did before when others brought it up.

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