The Liberty Navy's time

[Thurgret]

Sit in Liberty for a while. Sit in Alpha. Sit in Gamma. Sit in Minor, Delta, or any pvp hotspot. It's the attitude of the community. ooRP idiots with no desire to RP, merely to find the biggest ship they can and mash the trigger key flock to those areas. Not all indies are bad, it's just that in reality the bad ones do outnumber the good ones, and in some cases, the factions. Faction players have the potential to be just as bad, but usually they have at least some restrictions from their leader. Indies don't.

Point taken. I haven't seen any independent characters in capital ships in NY, though, except for a Zoner juggernaught, a handful of pirate gunboats (which are capable of taking my fighter to shreds, as are bombers, which appear to be the standard vessel for pirates to use), a Junker salvage frigate - hardly a real capital ship - and then there was a Spyglass which I'm not sure on. I see some LN capital ships about. Mostly cruisers, with a few gunboats, and I've seen one carrier and one dreadnought. Usually, though, the pirates have the lawfuls outgunned and outnumbered.

That means it's sorely tempting to save up and buy a gunboat, because otherwise I'm often restricted to just lurking near bases with that character and only traveling when I am absolutely certain that the trade lanes aren't blocked. But if everyone hops in gunboats, then the pirates will get destroyers and cruisers, then lawful folks would be wanting battleships - not a good way to go.