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

[Riess]

You can actually take my point as one for getting blues, but that's short-sight when speaking of battleships. What I actually mean is that lone battleships lurking away from safe space make great attractors for groups to organize against. And putting perfect-case scenario aside, such group can take its sweet time cutting such ship down, in return making itself visible and "inviting" for other groups to log and come after. I've seen that happen frequently over those 7 years I am playing Disco, in fact I remember whole microcosmos coming to exist around certain players raiding certain systems on regular basis, with organised support and opposition effords eventually growing into factions adding whole in-RP metagame around that, even if centerpiece's part was limited to appearing in right spot on right time and delivering enough to dodge the sanction for inssuficient pre-engage RP.

As for your post scriptum, I can only say that "I want the Lexus. And you're trying to sell me a Lada."

With battleship I can be farming npc without having one eye on my b/b count all the time. Or I can be grinding anti-cap missions off my homebase waiting for somebody to tag along. And while you'll argue such activity is not adding to RP, I'll argue that such simple interactions make great starting point for RP.

Finally, what would you preffer more? Being jumped by big fat ship you can easily spot from distance and run away from as it tries hopelessly to land a single hit on your small ship, or being jumped by medium sized ship that can actually land and take you down with two hits while you are wondering how many CD's he has left as you are trying to get into cruise? I actually saw such point raised few months after change hit certain faction on DUSA, which jumped to cruisers and gunbos ganks the moment battleship access was removed from them. Speak about irony.