The Dreadnought Dilemma - the ideal role of heavy caps in disco

[Nodoka Hanamura]

I think the genie is already out of the bottle, caps are prolific as is, that cannot be undone. Bigger caps have been pushed into more of a supporting role I suppose, so that curtails their spam somewhat. Though I find myself wondering now, what percentage of players even own a battleship?

I have to concur with Bessie. I doubt just rm -rf'ing caps from Indies will do anything but de-incentivize those who don't want to be burdened with factional obligations or otherwise don't desire to play snubs - worsening our population problem. It also poses the hypothetical - what happens if one NPC faction has an equivalent OF and the other doesn't? Are we supposed to expect the OF to just not whip out gunboats and cruisers to every non-event encounter and delete the UF players?

If we absolutely must put a stop to the lolwuts and comedians running around planetdiving capitals as a defensive measure, raise the price. I personally won't like it in the long run, but if it's that big a problem, artificial grind would solve the issue.

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