Independent Capital ships vs Factions

[tansytansey]

Mmh. Quite a stir over Capital ships, as usual. But what can you expect? You give a man power and expect him not to use it? As long as Capital Ships exist, so will this problem. You can change the rules and regulations to squeeze tighter and tighter on both the 'lolwutters' and the people who actually roleplay, but there will always be those that play only just enough by the rules that they don't get sanctioned, but enough to piss everyone off. You'll probably end up losing more valuable members of the community than 'lolwutters' in the end.

There are way's to kill the ships at Manhattan. Any ship smaller than a Battleship parked at NY will die from newark station. Newark has a total of something stupid like 30 guns, and will eat them up.

That's totally not true. I was messing around with a cruiser on openSP outside Manhatten, blowing up every NPC that came by. All AI seem to use the same basic aiming, which is quite easy to dodge if you know how. I wasn't dodging 100% of the shots, but enough that it didn't beat my shield recharge. Not only that, but Newark has tiny range on its' defense batteries, and the area outside Manhatten is quite large.
Not only that, but when a 'lolwutter' is on a rampage in any system, if everyone starts logging off to avoid them, it is just the same as dying. Your roleplay and fun has been ruined just the same. Ignoring them is counter-productive.

And to Noobl3t, from your harsh reactions to this thread its' easy to see you consider yourself a good roleplayer, and I don't doubt that for a second. But perhaps instead of fighting a trivial battle against a thread like this you could be one of the ones who set an example of good roleplay to those that need it. If a good roleplayer refuses to sign such a registration out of some petty disagreement on views, then what kind of example does that set to everyone else? Discovery is a roleplaying community and we have to work together to make it a better place.

Other than that, I don't think capital ship registration is the answer, either. I think you'll find that a lot of the people who are the cause of this problem do not even have a forum account. And if they do, it was quite possibly created to post in their sanction thread. What ever the solution to this problem is, I don't think we'll find it at the bottom of a thread like this.
Personally, if it were up to me I'd just ban all Outcast capital ships from NY and make the LR Dessie a Molly Dessie only. It worked with the Bounty Hunters. But I know everyone will hate that idea, probably Del included, since he has several OC/LR dessies for the LR-.

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