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

[A Magpie]

@JasonRedBloom gave me several insights to the mentality of a "casual" Discovery player RE: Caps.

• Caps are just more fun to play for a solo player who can play maybe ~2-3 hours a day.
  We mostly run missions around Liberty when he's on, the BC as it is is a nice casual ship that's easy to play, so he gravitates towards it. Furthermore, the massive health pool of a cap (especially a Battlecruiser; NPCs will always target the center of the hull and ignore hardpoints) gives him the survivability, or perceived survivability, to get to safety if it's a fight he can't win. He sees the massive damage output on paper, and thanks to NPCs being braindead, gets close to 100% of that damage output landing, and them having to chew all the way through his hull makes him feel invincible.
  Furthermore, a cap has the damage output to chew through missions while a bomber (especially thanks to now needing ammo for Scorchers) is pretty much hard capped at anti-fighter missions. He actually described it as "man this thing gonna kill all" (sic).
  
• That's it. For people having neither the time nor desire to train to "git gud", caps are the casual Discovery gameplay experience.