A littile opinion

[mjolnir]

Instead of trying to change something nothing is being done. Atleast I do not see any progress, as well as others. Particulary nothing is being done to try restrict cap spamage, which really ruins the server.

You think caps are too powerful and there are too many of them. ... at the same time there are capship pilots here on same forums making thread after thread about caps being too weak. Sometimes it's even same person and in one post, saying that caps are too weak and defenseless while bombers are also too weak vs caps ( http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=51232 ).
On top of all that when the cruise drain that most of all affects cap ships is introduced there is a whole lot of people voting immediately for removing it.

To sum it up it's impossible to please all sides at same time. There will always be bomber pilots who think there are too many capships and capship pilots who think that their expensive ship dies too easily. Easiest for each group is of course to blame the balance. I'd say that when the amount of complains from both sides of the wall is about the same it's just about right.

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Remember as well that:

developers are NOT admins (Cannon is the only exception) and neither of those control all factions.

About official faction power to control capships

It was actually indirectly already introduced: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?sh...mp;#entry782461

"5) Official factions may request that the reputation of a player's ship be changed to hostile with respect to their NPC faction."

So if someone "overuses" capship against orders of the official faction , they might request that he is made hostile to that faction, which basically severely limits his ability to use it. (his former enemies would still shoot him and now his "friends" will as well.

This way capships are controlled on "innocent until proven guilty" principle, as opposed to "guilty until proven innocent" of a scheme where you need to request to buy them first

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