Tutorial: Capital Ship Etiquette

[Connor]

Just had a quick look on the forums and i saw this. I was originally going to make one of these just for PvP but i decided to post bone it. Anyway, I've got a few things to point out, being an experienced Cap PvPer myself. I can, if i get time to reinstall everything and borrow a few ships, make a few cap videos on PvP. Don't expect it though.

Protip.
The armor upgrade you use on your capital ship can show how experienced you are as a player. A cruiser with a cheap heavy armor upgrade Mark II gives off the vibe, that you are a new player and just bought the ship and had no money left for an armor upgrade

This isn't always true. As you go on to mention further down in the post, newbies like to aim for the "end game" product which would be a suited and booted cap which involves the BS, weapons, BS Scanner and a Cap 8. Most of the experienced players i know like to fly around with Cap 6's because Cap 8's are just to expensive. Quite often people are surprised when they engaged a low armored Cap. I know i have fought several people with Haus and once even armourless and they wiped the floor.

Personally, a good indication of experience is whether or not the user has Pulses.

I. Anti-Snub loadouts exist. Anti-Snub caps - do not.

You don't really make it very clear here, because there are effective ways of using your battleship as an Anti Snub platform without pissing of people. As part of an old BAF/LN agreement, BAF were given 2 Carriers to use. I was given privileged to fly one under the BAF| tag. We RPed her out as an FoB (Forward Operating Base) which had a variety of anti snub weapons including a mixture of Solaris (Gatling and Cannons) along with Razors. I would often station her in the cloud and act as a command and control unit and a retreat zone where I'd cover our snubs if they're slowing dieing whilst they escaped.

6. Capital ships do not have authority.

Well, some of them do. You might want to mention that Official faction caps are usually flown by high ranking characters so ignoring them would be somewhat unwise.

7. In an argument against a snub-flying player, you will never be right.

You just won't. Plain and simple.

Yeah... No.

capital ships in by themselves do not require as much experience to fly than snubcraft do.

Well, yes they do and in some cases it's harder (Not all though). You require more tactics when flying in a Capital vessel because on mistake will end you, where as in a snub you can sometimes come back from it. Snub fights usually last alot longer than Cap fights do, especially when it's BS vs BS. Learning these tactics and weaknesses of ships is one thing, but utilizing them makes you a good Cap PvPer and some of these can be quite hard to do so.

2. Flexibility is often far worse than specialization.

The moment you make a capital ship to do X and Y, it will never do either of them well. You are instantly making a support ship. Support ships never win against specialized ships in a one-on-one fight.

That's not always true because you can have a BS with Full cerbs and Prims/Pulses to take out Capital Vessels and Solaris/Gatling to take out snubs.

3. If you have a battleship, get at least one flak turret.

Nova torpedoes not only do a lot of damage, they also rip off your guns and equipment. Getting at least one flak turret is essential.

I would honestly change this to something along the lines of "Get so many flaks so that you have at least one firing in every direction".

8. Capital ships are worse than snubs.

And never ever try to argue against that.

Yeah, again. No. It depends how you play and use your cap. For instance, if you intend to RP with it then that's great or if you want to pew other Caps then yeah. However, they are worse then snubs when you shuve them into a FAIR snub fight.

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