Tutorial: Capital Ship Etiquette

[Garrett Jax]

I liked, "The Story", Origins of the Capship stigma. I remember buying my first Cap ship. I read that old forum thread, "So you want to buy a capital ship" before I made my purchase. I tried to be very careful not to stick my cap nose where it wasn't wanted and unintentionally anger people. I also had to be wary of 'cap killers', particularly since I flew under the LNS tag. The stigma against caps was quite high at the time.

I quickly discovered that the least offensive use of my cap ship was as an RP tool and that opportunities to use my ship 'legitimately' in pvp were not as frequent as I had hoped. I could have perpetuated the hate against caps by attacking unlawful snubs every chance I got, but it didn't seem quite sporting, blasting the small guy just because I could.

After awhile, as was mentioned in the thread, "So you want to buy a capital ship", I got bored with it and went back to snubs.

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