Battleships- a solution

[Agran Harper]

Instead of putting this line in the middle or the end, I pull it to the very top;
Might I remind everybody, that this is not to restrict wellbehaving roleplayers and people who are actually doing their best to stay incharacter, but it is rather to restrict the "lolwutcappers" from doing... lolwutcapping...

I'm glad I asked somebody else in private, else I would have been so confused anyways. I couldn't see the point though, if you already need to join a faction to get a battleship. Now that I learned you meant PLAYER Faction - thats a whole different deal then. So yes, I voted #2. Rewards should go to persons who are worthy.

What I mean is , don't make all battle ships an 'Admin given ship' in the next mod. A lot of other servers out there (PVP, RP) still let anyone buy a battle ship and play it . . .

don't lock all the battleships on the Admin base . . (that's what I meant) :)

If it is suggested as I think it is, then it is not an admin given ship. It is restricted to the ID of the Player Faction, which indicates the faction has accepted your application beforehanded. If not, then you are KoS. If you are granted to purchase the ID, then you are allowed to fly these battleships. If you fly in there and purchase the battleship just so; report, sanction, ban, whatever (because its against the rules and you don't have the proper ID). So its not really all admin given, if I got that correctly? (key word; "if" )

Here's an idea...

Each official faction has an armory right? Why dont we make any ship with a class ten shield require, by server rules, a battleship license. Remove the ability to purchase battleship licenses from any station in the game, and have the admins give each faction armory a number of battleship licenses.

The faction can then hand these out to players they trust. Anyone who buys a ship that requires one of these licenses, but doesnt have the license, can be sanctioned, or openly attacked by that faction's members. Factions could choose whether or not to charge for these licenses in order to keep their armory's credits up.

Interesting concept to say the least, but I rather go with the original proposal, of restricting only battleships (or perhaps, one class lower) to make them more of a unique sight.

Just to get it perfectly clear (please bear in mind I'm still rather new to that part of Discovery);
Lets make an example; Currently the only lawful Liberty Faction that is allowed to fly Battleship, are the Liberty Guards. They are only a NPC Faction. The Liberty Navy is Player AND NPC Faction. They are not allowed to fly battleships. So to make this all happen, what would be the road? Making Liberty Guard to a Player Faction? Or tweaking the Guard ID (which happens to make it all even more messy)? Or making the Battleship licences ONLY given away by Owners of the Player Faction related?

A group of players who know the area, roleplay of the area, and understand the nature of a faction should be able to petition for troublesome individuals to have their capship (note... CAPSHIP, so cruisers, battlecruisers and battleships) rights removed.

/signed I hear every now and then about capital ships in high numbers engaging without a system message and are not reported...?

And last but not least; good that I preview every now and then so; Denelos's idea for battleship license trial is also a noteworthy addition that should be considered:)

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To hunt the prey is life,
to lose the prey is death,
to hunt the loss is insane...