Battleships- a solution

[Ceoran]

The problem there is that the FORUM members, do not accurately represent those who do not come to the forums. THOSE people, even if they are part of an NPC faction, ARE independents. These forums have never accurately represented them, and they never will. Polls are lopsided to those who care enough to vote. Most polls, most opinion fests have on average about 100-150 votes. And there are for sure a hell of a lot more Official Discovery Server Players than 150.

Here comes the big bad real life comparison: If you are living in a country with a democratic government, then there will be elections every now and then. If you don't use your rights and actually really vote for someone you shouldn't complain afterwards if they won't do the job like you would like them to. You screwed up yourself, you and all the others who didn't care about. You might have done something to prevent it, but you didn't.
This part is obviously not about you, but about those who don't care.

There are many people like me, who just want to play. We don't have a lot of time.
I don't have 3-5 weeks/months of waiting for other people to get their A into G, about a simple request to fly a ship. And then it might get turned down simply because that person has a grudge against me because my avatar hurts their eyes. OR I might have AI onboard as crew, but the faction (leader) doesn't accept that because it goes against how a ship [SHOULD BE] roleplayed. That is roleplay dictation by one PERSON, to another PERSON. IT is an OORP judgement based on feelings and emotions.

I don't have that much time either. But if you are going for a battleship you will have to trade a lot anyways to get it. Why not write your request first and then trade for it while it's getting reviewed? And if it gets rejected you can always talk to the people and ask them how to improve your rp. But if you really think it's based on a personal grudge: carry it on to the admins, I'm sure they can help you.

Why stop at battleships?
Why not do the all capital ships, Gunboats and above?
Then someone will say, Why stop there? Why not make all BOMBERS, tied to a faction. Then it will be all VERY HEAVY FIGHTERS.
Because there IS no reason to stop there, only at Battleships. Because the problem is not the ships. It is the players, and those players are in every type of ship.

I think we already agreed that there are problematic players in every type of ship. But the point is they are easier to get back in line if they are in something small than if they are in a big ship and you only in a small fighter trying to tell them what they are doing wrong. We just had a nice example in the other Thread when someone stated that he's a Fleet Admiral now because he has a LABC and wouldn't need to answer to anyone in a smaller vessel. I won't call the name, but I'm sure it's obvious who I'm talking about.

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