Battleship terror

[Circadian_Lupine]

I'd have to encourage sticking to the original PvP rules, as they were drafted back when the server became active. Strictly banning any sort of unsolicited fighting removes a huge part of the functional social environment here. Troughout all of history, wherever there are traders there are pirates to counterbalance them. Obviously it's rediculously unbalanced to have liberty dreadnaughts chasing Rhinos all over the system, and seriously a waste of time for all involved anyway. But if a trader feels like dropping 11 MILLION dollars on a gigantic cargo train and drag millions more worth of diamonds through open space, then they have to be prepared to deal with the possibility of a pirate attack. This encourages intelligent piloting, plotting less known courses, and general awareness. All of which improve the play experiance. If capital ship PvP is removed from the equation, you're just going to have a server entirely full of level 90 people in trains mindlessly floating through space between planets. Not to sound extremist here, but in light of the recent threats by people to leave the server if they encounter the remotest possibility of danger or a challange..... I have to say, i don't think i'd stick around on a server where nothing remotely exciting is allowed to happen. The proposed changes would effectively change what used to be a thrilling space combat/trading game into a cross country trucking simulator.


/to head off any arguments against my percieved "power hungry" nature before they're made... it should be known that i've never even owned a capital ship aside from the one on my private testing server. I've been making my money on this server through a combination of trading (in something a bit less obtrusive and underdefented than a 400 meter long packing crate mind you) and flying corsair missions in an eagle. I DO however, intend to purchase a battleship when i can afford one. When that happens i also expect to be able to use it to it's fullest extent...

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