Dear devs and admins:

[Govedo13]

Before player bases, the Gamma/Alpha/Texas/Hamburg/Leeds large cap engagements did much the same. The issue is not playerbases, but the HUGE excess of capital ships in the game. If we're going to snip something, let's start there:
- All pirate factions restricted to cruisers and below. Poorly supplied pirate factions not even a cruiser.
- All house corporate factions, civvy stuff only.
- All unaffiliated factions (Zoner, BHG, IMG, GMG and other non-house lawful factions) limited to cruiser and below.
- Restrict the amount of battleships house navies may field by making those one per official player faction (meaning you -can- have more of them, just need more player factions on the ID. Also means you have to have a group of players working together and generating activity, to be able to field one).
Then make their main guns and shields significantly more powerful (the ones that drive away cruisers but are pointless against snubs) and the problem is largely solved.

This is indeed good idea, it is great idea actually, however if the battleships get faction restricted and buffed they should be also able to deal with the snub swarm.

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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.)