Ending the Capship Issue(and more)

[Jihadjoe]

Hello everyone. I said I was going to stay out of this but now it seems like this is getting silly.

No one is trying to stop all indies flying battleships.

Capships were very very good once upon a time, then they got nerfed... heavily. Do you all want to know why? It was becuase they were used by people to simply fly about all over the place pwning anyone that moved.

Now we have rather ineffective capships that arn't realy worth the credits that people spend on them.

Restrictions have been put in place (especialy by eppy, he loves his battleships) in order to reduce the capship abuse so that we can return to having caps that are good at their job, rather than being laughable chunks of inertia.

Now...

The next reason. A lot of people spend their time in life wanting the biggest and the best, most people can't afford that in real life, however anyone who spends 3 or 4 days power-trading in this game can do it just fine. That means that a lot of people buy these ships, which is inherently unrealistic. How many battleships do you see on the average day in real life if you live near the coast? I bet its less than one...

The way I see this server we have player factions who represent the decision makes for the faction as a whole. For instance, we have the 101st the RoS and the BLS for the outcasts, they represent respectively the homeland defence, primary raiding wing, and financial backbone of the outcasts. As such they form a kind of government.

Next reason. Faction are groups of players, and thus the will of the group outweighs the will of the individual. This is a very simple concept in morality. Would you choose to live in a country that doesn't have some kind of majority rule?

Ok... next. To those of you who say it doesn't work.... Since the OC have brought this measure to fruition I personally have had people who before didn't realise it was a roleplay server asking me how to roleplay. Some of those people have started to do so. Some people have posted stories about their ship, some people have writen rather good stories about their ship.

Now none of this would have happened if the measure hadn't been put in place.

To those who say it will just move the people who have oorp cap ship elsewhere well yes it might, but if everyone did it then they would be forced either into roleplayling or dropping the ship.

Ok... I hope I have adaquately explained the position of those who wish to restrict the use of capitol ships. Factions members also only earn a capship after time (except in Akumabito's faction of course) and when they have shown sufficient responsibilty to use it. Why shouldn't everyone go through the same process?

I personally have suffered at the hands of people abusing their cap ships multiple times. I fly as a xeno. As a cardi smuggler I got blown up by an outcast battleship right outside malta with a full load of cardi while chatting to the locals in a friendly way. if that person had been in a fighter/bomber or even a GB or cruiser I would have been able to dock before I got killed.

That individual got a sanction, but wouldn;t we all rather live without players with little or no idea about roleplay sitting in massively powerful extremely visable ships. especialy when it means that those same ships which should have awesome power get nerfed to the point of absurdity due to irresponsible use by those OORP players.

Give the people who're trying to make a positive difference to the server a damn break...

That means you Akumabito. I have argued with you about this before and you never listen to anything that anyone has to say. I say that is arrogant in the extreme, and I find it somewhat distasteful.

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