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

[Agmen of Eladesor]

So long as the restrictions are used in a way that is -geniunely- for the betterment of the server then the restriction is valid in my opinion. If it it based on "THOU SHALT NOT FLY MY SHIPZ!!!1" then I have to disagree with the sentiment, and wouldn't support any restriction based on it.

I agree with Joe on this, and I voted OTHER as well.

My reason is quite simple, and was well demonstrated earlier this week while I was online twice, once in both directions.

If it advances RP for the faction, or the player who bought the cap ship is willing to listen and to RP, and didn't buy it just for PvP purposes, then fine - let the guy have the cap ship.

I'm not going to name any names - those of you who were involved in the incidents know who you were.

Encounter 1:

I'm sitting in a system and faction members that (in RP) would control the system were talking to an indie character that had a cap ship. The faction members told the indie that he wasn't registered, they'd like to see him get permission to have his sihp, and they told him how to do so. He freaked out, went totally OoRP in system chat, whereby we got lots of RP comments about nomad infection. Instead of trying to RP things, he then went to another system, scrapped his one cap ship and bought a cap ship from another faction - because it was obvious he wanted to PvP and not RP.

Point being - official factions are willing to work with the indies if it supports RP, and not strictly for PvP purposes. The faction was quite willing to work the guy, HE didn't want to work in RP with them. It was his choice to scrap the ship.

Encounter 2:

I'm in a system and suddenly see in chat words to the effect, "You can't have that ship, you must have stolen it, engaging" - followed by a death message. (Followed VERY shortly after that by a LOT of other chat, but that's another story.) Point being - it is my understanding that, in 4.85, the only ones authorized to actually FLY cap ships will be those people who have guard ID's. If someone takes the time to get a guard ID, then they can have the cap ship and more power to them. While your official faction (and I belong to one that will be buying a system as soon as our 4 months have passed) may be THE power as far as disco is concerned - you're not THE power as far as all of Sirius is concerned.

Let the guy have his cap ship. These things tend to be self correcting. In the comment about the number of RM being online - hey, that's what bounty hunters and/or mercenaries are for, isn't it?

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.