Idea for hunters

[Chico]

Well for me, it's not the Hunter caps themselves at all. It's the way they are played. As said elsewhere here, the RP potential for them is huge. It's all over Sirius which is why I think there are a lot of them.
I don't mind fighting a group of Hunters in caps. I just fought with six or seven of them. It was great fun and I think everyone enjoyed it. The Corsairs were hanging on (but getting a hiding) until two Corsair battleships arrived. We won the day but the battle was epic.
That in itself is not the point. These guys appeared in Gamma and stood off. If we wanted a fight, they'd sure as hell have given us one. If we didn't and had left them alone, I reckon they would have carried on and left.
It's the guys that swarm the bases killing everything in their sight and then sit there. Fine, you killed me. Now bugger off so I can get on with it but it doesn't always happen like that. They don't bugger off. Sometimes they attack lonely Sabres/Titans in their huge ships.
I lost count of the times I have undocked to find a couple of BH battlecruisers sitting off Crete. I've even had a Rheiland battleship doing it.
I have been hit by two Falcattas, a Sabre and a Hacker Gunboat at Tripoli. God knows what the other corsair was hit by but I could see the ships from where I was so they were probably caps. This happened some weeks ago and thats all died down now but all that firepower for two Titans?
It just isn't fun. For anyone. Certainly not me and probably not for my attackers. Get annhilated by overwhelming force/numbers is a pretty crap experience. Doing the annhilation is like stepping on an ant. Wheres the fun in any of that?
I could rant on using some here as shining examples for gamesmanship but I suppose the point I'm making is that it's not the ships that cause the hassle, it's the pilots. Educate them and it all changes.

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