Battleships- a solution

[FooFighter]

Your "majority" does not include all players on the server, simply forumites.

Who also are the only ones that actually count. If you don't bother enough to sign up on the forums to be a part of this community, you are ignorable. People who don't vote in a democracy have no right to complain about bad people getting elected either.

Because the problem is not the ships.

The ships are still part of the problem though, due to a multitude of reasons:

A) If a Fighter or Bomber guy starts PvP whoring and lolwutting around, you can dispose of him rather easily, no matter what ship you are flying. Try destroying a Battleship following your VHF to your next base however.

B) To accurately RP a crewed ship, RP skills are a necessity.

C) Big ships should be something special. Which they are not, at the moment. You see battleships everywhere, and most of them are piloted by, excuse me, morons - yes, there are some really, really good indie cap players (Jimmy, I'm talking of you among others;)), but the majority consists of semi-retarded people who just "want big sh1pz cuz dey r teh uberpwnz0r". I've had both trouble and great RP with people in fighters, but the bigger the ships become, the less RP I tend to get from them. I wonder why.

D) Disco has a horrible "You can get everything you want as long as you just grind enough" mentality. Things like these already suck in other MMORPGs, but in an actual role playing game, such mentality has no place (at least, in my opinion). People should be working together, for the enjoyment of everybody, not to reach some gameplay goals like big ships.

For the simple fact that people who are inclined and curious about the ships should be able to buy them and test them out.

That's what OpenSP is for. There are few things that are more annoying than people "just testing" ships *on* the server, asking people to shoot them etc because they want the most powerful ship they can get >_> .