Too many Indy Order Capships

[Jihadjoe]

not at all is it *your* post. - but there is an undeniable trend when it comes to considering good RP. - we ( and that is the majority that speaks up, not the majority as such ) apply much much harder standards the larger the ship is. - when the problem is hardly the ship but the player.

Thats tru. The problem isn't a ship. There are no ships that magically make a player behave like an OoRP idiot when they buy one. It doesn't work like that. However what frequently happens is caps are nought by those who feel the need to be powerful.

Thats understandable I think. Caps are, after all, more powerful than fighters. They are a status symbol, and often a rather misplaced one.

In my humble opinion, caps are harder to roleplay than a fighter. You have so many more people on board. Going into a combat situation is a much bigger deal. You have to have, in your head, the mannerisms discussions and personalities of multiple people. With a fighter, you don't.

I believe that takes more skill, practice, experience, whatever... However, learning to use a large and powerful ship in a considerate way, is no harder than learning to use a fighter, bomber, camera ship, baseball bat and spacesuit... whatever in a considerate and decent way.


Personally, I would not have said "gosh what an awesome group of roleplayers in those fighters" had that been a picture of four anubis's and a sekhmet rather than four LC's and an Osiris. My responce to the picture was "Thats a lot of caps. It's really unpleasent when that decends on your keeper bomber". You can make no judgement on the people involved from a picture unless it shows them actualy doing something, which it doesn't...

Anyone who sees a battleship and goes "oh that must be a bad roleplayer" is an idiot. However, the idea that people would be more annoyed by a battleship being oorp than a fighter is understandable. Trying to avoid hyperbole in either direction would probably be a good idea.

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