Faction Control of Capital Ships... or...

[Tenacity]

The primary reason I'm for restriction of capships is simple - some ships should not be common sights around sirius.

I explained this partly in Igiss' post, but ill do it again here, using the order as an example again:

The order is a small organization compared to the other militaries in sirius. While the LN, or RM, or KNF, or BAF may have the resources and crew to man a few dozen battleships or carriers (even the corsairs/outcasts have enough people and resources for this, they're almost houses in and of themselves), the order does not. We do not have the resources to pump out an osiris a day from evora, and we most certainly do not have enough people to crew that many ships.

The problem when ships are not restricted is that players do not pay attention to these RP issues when purchasing. Look at order indies right now, there are more Osirises in the order fleet than there are bombers right now, going by the roster. That is, IMO, way out of whack with how order RP should be.

The same goes for the upcoming order carrier, it is - in RP - even larger than an osiris, requiring even more crew and vastly more resources to construct (it isnt just the carrier, it's all the fighters and supplies it has to carry with it). Now, from what I've heard from Jinx, the infocard SHOULD state "there are only a couple of these ships in operation" - it is meant to be a very rare ship for the order, and the osiris is supposed to be almost as rare.

If there is no restriction put on these ships, we'll end up with the same situation we have with osirises now - too many in operation. Now, we also have the new gunboat and destroyer if players want a capship, and those vessels require significantly less crew and resources to construct. Really, the order should be 90% fighters/bombers, 10% caps, but it will never balance out that way simply because too many players fly capships (and I know, i'm guilty of it as well, but tbh i have been flying a fighter for over 3 months now with aki).

If I were the one given the ability to restrict the order's capships, it would be something along the lines of:
Gunboats "Go ahead, buy a gunboat, just dont be an idiot flying it"
Destroyers "Give me a brief writeup or explanation (on forums or in-game) of what you intend to do with the ship, and show me that you actually know what the letters R and P mean, and you can have it"
Carriers "I hope you started writing your RP for this thing three months ago, because thats the effort I expect for you to deserve this ship."
Battleships "I want to see your RP in other ships before you get this, and I want to make damn sure that you talk more than you shoot."

Now, for the last two those are some pretty hefty restrictions, those should be extremely rare ships for the order - but I dont see any reason why people who dont want to put the effort in for the carrier or osiris cant live with a destroyer or gunboat instead.

You get what you give.

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