Battleships- a solution

[Agran Harper]

>>yessir. i fail to see a simpler outcome because this is the internet, and here anyone can be (and most are) as arrogant, rude, bashful, ignorant, egotistical or anything else they wish, since arguing over an internet forum has no real life consequence. You are one person amongst many. im taking the majority into consideration. I agree that if there are too many people ignoring the standards and the netiquette, then consequences must follow. Yet, consider the minority as well. Even though I dislike self quoting in public... I cannot help it this time;

...but I can assure you this (if I can assure anything at all) that I?m as far from the "I bbq u 4 greater lawl u lulznuub" mentality as I can possibly be. Just because its the Internet, it is no excuse for being not reasonable and not treating others as you normally would when you face them eye to eye.

But back on topic;

>>"solve it in an rp-manner"
nice idea, easy to say, but what are you going to do if there are 6 Sarissas and dreads around Malta without giving a single sentence, nor responding to hails or any other attempts to roleyplay with them?
Well... then report them because it is against the rules?

6.6 PvP combat is allowed only on roleplay basis. The pilot who is attacking must scan for an ID prior to the attack. Relying on general reputation status (red/neutral/green) without scanning for the ID is not allowed.
6.21 Attacking without an engagement notice is not allowed. All attacks must be preceded with some form of RP, regardless of NPC faction diplomacy.
6.24 Sanctions for violating ID rules and RP engagement rules are: credit/equipment fine, placing inside the prison system, ban for up to 30 days.

Engaging like you stated is a crude violation of these rules, and should be reported and sactioned accordingly, or did I miss something? Banning a lolcap for 30 days = win?

But back to back on topic;
Yes I know real life comparisms to game cause death stares of oblivion to be fired at the person who attempts to. I'm so glad I got immunized to them.
Before you become the "pilot" of anything worth a size mentioning, this guy has to have a) the reputation b) the rank c) the expertize to do so (of course there is "d" which is bribe, but oh well, you cannot bribe your way to be the captian of a carrier in our world anyways without having piloted any other bigger ship before. So there ARE limits). This all comes in junction with certain prerequisites. It should also be realized, what actually a capital ship IS. Its just not money. No, most importantly, its resources and manpower behind all that. We read the infocards on several asteroid fields which have been mined out because of the industry demanding it. Perhaps the ship YOU are piloting was made from the very last scratches of one of these ores, combined with refined scrapmetal processing? Then there is the manpower factor; How large the crew of a battleship or any other capital must be these days? dozens? hundreds? Definitely too much to be given command over a ship like this just by a whim.
And the way it currently is; it IS just a whim. And it has nothing to do with satisfying RP background or recommendation of others.

Of course some things can (and perhaps) will be rigged, but only to an extent the paradigma of this setting allows. If there are too many corrupt guys, with too many voices raising against them, then the administrators will have to do something against that, else the whole reputation of the server is down the loo.

As far as it can get with "subcapitals"; apparently they can be handled pretty well by the rest. It seems its really just the biggest two classes of ships that are really being a nuisance. If the players can handle lesser vessels properly, then they will (and should) handle them accordingly in the future.
And how often did I read that trying to explain something to a lolwutcapper is a decision of "run/fight and live now or die trying" not to mention that it is almost impossible to get somebody off that road if he already grinded that much to become a lolwutcapper in the first place? Some people just do not change and thats a given fact. I'm certain that somebody tries to get some kind of "mindset" or - behave - RP into the heads of a lolwutcapper... but only trying to do so does not automatically make it happen and succeeding with it anyhow. As I mentioned just now; grinding that long, and actually having the MINDSET to GRIND for a battleship on a ROLEPLAY server... well, goes without words.

Fact is; Roleplay server. Fact is; any capital ship is listed. Fact is; any capital ship has to be announced for production just because of the vast amounts of resources and manpower needed to run one. Fact is; Roleplay server again! Fact is; if there wouldn't be so many people "abusing" the game current mechanics to grind for Battleships, this problem would never have been stated. There is a situation which apparently pisses of a good chunk of the community, and just because of that (and because its a roleplay server - the third) the need for discussion and consequences arises, naturally.

That said, the need to log out and go to sleep arises, else I face the consequences to headbob my neck out at work. good nite.

(( and blighter as some points))

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