I agree with the OP.
There are so many options to make zoners not dull and allow new types of RP both for factions and indies. I want the ships to stay but they does not need to be typical PvP caps.
Change them into something else. Examples:
Add specific scanner that costs 500m and can be mounted only on Corvo and Reseph, allow it to scan ships and detect stuff at 15k. Remove Corvo heavy slots.
Make Jugg supertransport- 4000 cargo restricted only to Omicrons- 1b price mixture of cruiser and transport guns, cruiser shield and cruiser hull ratings, 1 single cruiser heavy slot, 20 transport gun slots. Lolwuts would kill for such useless thing.
Make the Carrier and Fearless official faction only. Or change the 4 ships in any way that you desire, take the official factions to give you feedback. Actually the lack of natural enemies gives zoner capital ships so many options not to be typical warships but something else.
So everyone would be able to RP its thing.
(10-09-2013, 10:51 AM)Knjaz Wrote: Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)