Docking ring weaponry

[Moberg]

PvP interactions do not need to end with one party dying. In my opinion, this is an extremely narrow view. Players shouldn't be forced to die, it's stupid both in roleplay and from a gameplay perspective. There are other ways of attaining victory and merely surviving can be one of it.

Over the past years, there have been plenty of things where some players resorted to crying for nerfs instead of trying to counter the things they found standing between them and their blue. Time and time again, this rendered alternative playstyles and pvp methods that deviated from the 'Unwritten Conn PvP ruleset' almost useless. Trying to nerf capital planet defenses is just the next episode of it.

If you want a fight that plays by your rules, go to Connecticut. If you are in regular space, be prepared to meet playstyles that don't satisfy your 'standards'. Be prepared to face them with a different strategy than usual, even if it inconveniences you. Defenses around capital planets are not the problem, it's the feeling of entitlement to kill something when you attack it. And when you die, it's easy to shift the blame on something out of your control instead of admitting that you should've approached the situation differently. Or that you were too greedy to let go of the kill.

In any case, in the majority of the cases I've observed over the years, the balance has not often been a problem. It was the players and their mindset, and it still is.

+1 to Char and Laura, too