Restrictions on capital ship use

[cgaWolf]

I went for 'fine as it is'.

I'm a newb to Disco & the server (1st post \o/ ), and very much understand the problem that capship spam brings, even if the caps can be taken out by two or three dedicated (and unlike me, competent) pilots without problems. However, seeing as this is an RP server, there's already a major restriction on them (other than the billion in cash you need to cough up to get & gear one): they can't be flown OOC.

As far as i'm concerned, that takes out all police/military vehicles; and for the unlawfuls there's really no reason to tug around in them unless they're off to meet another one for a major fight (as in planned Outcast vs. Corsair event for example). While i eventually plan on getting one, i have as of yet no IC idea on how to do it, and tbh all i'll probably do with it is sit around in the guard system taking screenshots of it - the way i see it, if you don't have a plausible story to go with your BS, you don't take it out to meet other players.

I did pick up a gunboat the other day, mostly because i'm an atrocious pilot, and exploring the universe in a heavy fighter is suicidal at times, so i upgraded. Since i don't like the way it looks (it's actually ok, but i don't like the pseudowings on it), i'll probably switch the Explorer for an Orca (i'd really prefer the IMG, LH or Kursai one, but there's no plausible way to fly them as a Zoner, so i'll let them be); but i have no intention of going to look for (pvp) trouble with it, instead i need the big shields to not croak to Wilds & Nomads when exploring instead of Datastorming disco.

So short version: anything bigger than a gunboat needs to be IC, which disqualifies most of them according to server rules already, and even with a gunboat you have to think about it first to stay IC.

PS: I'd fly a Zoner gunboat, but there isn't one as of yet. ETA is 4.85 iirc?