Battleships- a solution

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Well, im done picking out posts to reply to.

The way I see it, the positives of restricting capital ships to factions, or faction control are far outweighed by the negatives of doing so. Stop blaming them for all your problems, cause the real culprit is not the ship, it's the player behind it.

Right, its the player with the ship. That said, allow people to restrict those high-powered vessels only capable of war from those players who would abuse it's strength.

Without the freedom to fly almost any ship you want, you kinda loose the idea of freelancer!
People should be free, we do not need more rules or restrictions!

The idea of Freelancer, was to be Edison Trent doing oddjobs for various groups.
Edison Trent flew starfliers, patriots, defenders, anubis's etc... Not Carriers, Dreadnoughts, and Battleships.

On Disco, the idea of A freelancer is someone whos limited to gunboat class or lighter ships.

many people wanted to make large ships more expensive and nerf traderoutes that turned out to be too popular. - they wanted limited credits, force people into NPC factions and set tighter RP guidelines on factions ( npc faction IDs )

the result was a thread of well over 200 posts complaining about the new tradesystem - and it was mostly those that asked for more expensive ships and lesser profit that complained. - it was NOT the players that were considered "powertraders" in 4.84 that complained about the new system.

The issue here, is that while the popular, insanely high profit routes were nerfed... various other routes were nerfed as well, ones that didnt need to be nerfed at all, and ones that actually needed to be buffed a tiny bit.

- what if a faction does not WANT to restrict caps? - force them to? - if not by rules... paint them as "bad" factions, cause they allow "lol-caps"? Lolcaps shoot for the blue lines. if its too often, people lose interest in that area of gameplay. Thats part of the reason I rarely go into Liberty anymore.
- what if a faction totally ( and i mean utterly ) messes up. - what punishment have they gotto face? - what effect will it have on the wellfare of the community? Factions are already held to higher standards...
- what if a faction approves players and those players totally mess up ( within the rules, but still totally off ) - is that a testament of the failure of a factions judgement?
Approval Removal? What happens when a licensed driver screws up too many times? License Revoked.

"With the system I would like to introduce, the faction would NOT be able to restrict the purchase of capital ships. They would ONLY be able to petition the admin team to have someone's cap-flying rights removed, AFTER that individual had been shown to be screwing up. Adaquate proof would have to be shown."
I like that ...

I don't, it gives an oorp punishment to something that can be handled inrp