Making snubs more appealing

[Jack_Henderson]

From the perspective of a new player, I imagine that snub combat is no fun initially. You join a fight in your brand new 25mil ship, excited to kill a few people, and get oneshotted/facemelted by atleast half of the server. Other games solve this problem with matchmaking, the amount of players doesn't allow us this luxury. So the new player puts a few hours into practice, tries to get better. Mh, atleast the new player can survive for a while now, but it's still rather frustrating, especially with the amount of opportunities that can still kill you in just a few seconds or less. Assuming this will cause a lot of frustration, what is the first thing that comes to mind?
The large capital ships Discovery is also advertising itself with. Why would you desire to practice a few hours in a snub when you can have even more impact in a larger, more epic ship, without even having the need to practice much. And yet, you can definitely influence a fight that way, as all the complaints about caps barging into snub fights show.
So, what is the choice for the new player? Lots of practice paired with potential frustration for an alright impact in fights, or flying in epic caps and influencing fights without much practice? Especially when it pairs you with lots of players on your skill level who can't be bothered to use snubs either or can't use many of their snub skills in capital ship combat.

It's not really surprising to me when these players choose capital ships over snubs.

+1
That's exactly how I think it works for many new players.