Questions to ADMIN

[cgaWolf]

I very much understand the argument, however i don't think it will be good for gameplay long term. For each single combat, it might make sense to use whatever's available to you, but the overall effect is that if Fighters & Bombers can't use their thrusters to some sort of advantage (in that case either a temporary retreat, or disengaging without fleeing), there will only be one answer to a capship comming against you, and that's is bringing a capship yourself next time.

I've been told "don't get a capship please" for the two weeks i've been playing here, and i'm very willing to adher to that if i can actually get away with flying a fighter or bomber, can dodge enemy caps or hide in asteroid fields.
As for the RP argument: If you allow every tomcruiser, dickdestroyer and harrybattleship to waste a humongous ammount of resources to pursue a lone bomber, that's more OORP than saying they can't do it, because unless there was a humongous bounty on my head, it just wouldn't pay off. Gunship with 4-8 crew would maybe do it, but a cruiser upwards with several dozen crew, against a random nonbountied pirate who happens to be in the same system?

Gameplay wise, there needs to be something working for noncaps, because let's face it: if a trader is in a bad mood, tricks me into standing still in for a transfer & then opens fire on my bomber, it looks bad for me if i'm not quick. Doing the same pirating in a gunship not only leaves me with more firepower against them, but also invulnerable against them, if they chose to open fire. Capship inflation wohoo?

I have 1 transport, 1 cargo, 2 fighters and a bomber. The gunship i did have, i handed back after being done with my exploration. 140k shield and a boatload of turrets was just too good an argument against nomad/wild NPCs when exploring edge systems. I personally don't have an issue with people having capships, as long as the way they use them makes sense. Handling them like an overgrown fighter to hunt down a random pirate fighter is way more OORP than anything i ever did on the server.
Their presence at a certain location would mean pirates fighters can't approch that place, some sort of territorial control or force projection. That i can deal with. I could also deal with that cap launching a fighter wing to hunt me down, that would make sense. The capship captain going nuts and hunting single pirates... not so much.

PS: as to the whole thing happening between 2 noncaps, i have less of an issue with that. There's examples of capships having to follow other rules than noncaps already, as far as i'm concerned 2 noncaps can chase each other any way they like. At least they're in the same weightclass.