Cap fighters vs Snub figthers, "balanced" fights? why so much qq?

[Dove]

The reason why we all hate caps is that any clown can turn up in the middle of an ongoing snub fight, sit still and let autoaim do the work, and totally and utterly waste the effort any snub pilot put into it. Not so long ago, the cap could share his bots and bats with snubs too. To top it off, a lot of cap pilots will then go on a rant about how they are full of skill and how other players should just get good, as if they ever knew what that really means.

The reason the "hate" is one-way is exactly that. One lone fighter can hardly do anything to spoil a cap brawl, whereas the most useless of useless cap pilot can easily wreck the fun the snub pilots were having.

It would be better if it was two seperate worlds. Caps with slow guns unable to ever land a hit on any snub, no matter how effective autoaim is. Then buff cap armor so that snubs can't really bring it down. We can then completely ignore each other. Unfortunately that's not how the balance is, so we rely on gentleman-agreements.

To this, I'd like to point out that a group of 2-3 experienced bot-sharing pilots can utterly ruin the fun of other players too, and even more so, since there is no escape from 3 ace snubs, whereas there is always an escape from a cap.

A large portion of the server (especially new people) simply can never gather 2-3 snub pilots of same skill, and without caps to support them, they would have 0 chances, and be wiped out every single time.

Is that more fun for them?

Add a so-called "gentleman's agreement" of server aces that they will let each other target noobs without getting in each other's way, and there is no point in any new person even trying anything.

And thats the whole problem with discovery: There is really no point to even try anything. Someone is going to come muck it up, because they think it's their lawn and not yours, and that they have to win all the time and have more than you because they think they're somehow "better" for flying smaller ships or pretending they're a fluffy rainbow colored bunny.

Thats EVEN LESS fun for people who dont have the same experience plus two friends with the same experience than your tears about how you couldnt kill that other snub because he got help from a cap.

Limit battlecruisers, battleships and carriers. This way, indies can still fly destroyers/cruisers - but also can be easily killed by an organized bombing party.

You want bigger guns? Prove us you deserve them then.

Problem solved.

Nope. Nothing solved, and many more problems created.

They only way that you will get killed by a cap in a snub is because you chose to stay close to it. Flying a cap doesnt help you kill other ships. It just helps you stay alive longer, and help other stay alive.

There should be perks for abiding to basic RP standards, but they shouldn't be applied exclusively to caps, and they shouldnt be applied exclusively to "officials". They should be aplied to all ship classes, concerning armor, weapons, and cargo size. Most importantly, they should be achievable by anyone who tries, through strictly objective criteria, without the need to please selected individuals who think that pretending they're a pacifist human-squirrel hybrid makes them a philanthropic intellectual who deserves advantages over others.

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