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

[tfmachad]

Yeah, I've recently come around to the way of thinking that the best way to prevent silly cap-whoring is to limit your own personal use of capships. If you set a good example...

Answer is they all want to be power hungry cap whores themselves, without anybody to oppose them.

Both these statements are kinda funny in the light of the example used in the question of the poll. While bluntpencil's comment was more in the way of something constructive, ryoken's was... well...

RM is a fighter based faction and most of its attempts to control capital ship spam is for the sake of its neighbors (Rheinland's unlawful factions that mostly fly fighters to match us), which kinda debunks that generalization of yours, ryoken. It also kinda throws to ground your proposition, blunt. As even considering we mostly fly fighters, we still have our rogue capitals. So great is our concern with making Rheinland capital ship lighter that RM has completely outlawed BHG capital ship operation within Rheinland's territory while not only allowing, but promoting meaningful fighter class BHG operation inside (something that never really existed before).

I believe that the "urban legend" regarding RM's regulations on capital ships come from the fact that we, unlike other factions that regulate capitals, try and restrict ANY capital ships that do not belong to the faction regardless of a story behind it. The reasoning is that good and bad RP is subjective at best (even though most times you can tell) and we never really wanted to set some sort of double standard within (circumventing ranks for the people that are in the faction) and without (allowing some and disallowing others) the faction.

In the end, it all comes down to how well we can enforce that ruling. Both in terms of firepower, but specially in terms of having some good reasoning behind it. Some people have managed to slip by our clutches. Those were the well behaved ones. Some others haven't. Those were the ones who have made blatant mistakes regardless of our warnings (travelling outside of Rheinland with their ships, invading and operating inside of Sigma-13, assisting criminals etc).

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