Capital Ship Registration.

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And if they are on the forums and regularly active?

(It's obvious you have not read thoroughly.)

if they are, they're much less likely to cause trouble.

See, guess who takes the flak when some indy powertrader comes along and decides to buy a battleship, then starts trouble, gets sanctioned, makes enemies, or whathaveyou.

It isnt him that the retaliation gets directed at, it's the official factions of his affiliation. If an indy junker comes along with, say, an outcast destroyer, and starts causing trouble - the people who dont like his RP (which is probably nonexistant, he just wants to wtfpwn noobs with his leetsauce battleship) are going to retaliate against the JU and the junker's congress - and hell, we dont even force registration.

What the factions are trying to do by forcing registration is make sure that people who are using powerful ships (or perceived to be powerful, they really arent) arent abusing them and making the factions look bad.

Thing is, someone can come along in a bomber and cause a hell of a lot more trouble than someone in a destroyer, cruiser, battlecruiser, etc. - but a bomber is small, it doesnt attract a lot of attention or even look all that powerful.

It's all a matter of perception, and in a roleplay sense capships take a lot more resources from a faction to create - so it's reasonable that the faction would want to keep tabs on all of the caps in active 'service'.

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