Battleships

[Tomtomrawr]

But most of us trade only because we love BIG toys,with BIG guns.The bigger the Better.
Get a faction,and u will forget about gettin BS,trust me.Flying in LF/HF with factionmembers its much more
fun then flying a BS and looking for sanction.

Agreed, good points there.

where people are wrong is :

they think battleships are easy. - both, dedicated bomberpilots AND capital ship pilots ( and ppl that haven t got a business with either ) claim that someone that is flying a battleship and fails to take down a pair of bombers must .... simply, plainly ... suck.

we praise a bomberpilot team that shoots down 1 battleship for their unmatched skill - and we laugh at battleships that managed to shoot down 2 bombers.
the point is - the learning curve for a battleship is MUCH steeper than ANY other ship in the game. - you can master a bomber easily ( its like playing a game on novice level ) - you can master a light fighter easy ( like playing on medium ) - you can do well in most VHF after some practice ( like plaiyng on hard ) - but plaiyng a capital ship is not playing on "very easy" as some ppl might think... its like playing on "very hard".

capital ships are very rewarding if you master them - but mastering them takes a lot more skill, time and efford tha masterting any other ship.... and usually the player doing it must endure a lot more hatred and glee over his effords.
if you buy a battleship, you will suck ( unless you re naturally gifted ) for a long long time in which bombers will make fun of you and shoot you down. - very slowly, you ll become better ( if you do anyway ) - but a battleship that is skillfully used is a fearsome enemy - even for 3+ bombers.
so - what needs to change is mostly the attitude of the people. - capital ship players must abandon the believe that their ship makes them powerful just cause they have the ship. - other players must realize that in order to fly a capital ship WELL, it takes a lot more work than any other ship - and making fun of someone that is trying / learning is - well..... a bit nasty to say the least.

Brilliant points there Jinx, I agree with all of them. I guess I was a little impatient considering all of that time trading and rep fixing.

Doesn't matter anyway, because I needed the money I got from selling that BS, would of been better if I hadn't bought it in the first place but oh well, can't change the past.

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