Before the previous (and much less polite) thread was locked, Redcrab came with an excellent idea that could be an actual solution for the people flying around in capships without rp : force them to write some forum rp about the ships to be able to buy them. And indeed, these people are mainly inexperienced players who trade as efficiently as they can for several days, and then buy the ships witout any rp consideration to get the firepower they want. If writing some rp about the ship before purchase (nothing fancy, just a coherent minimum) was required, it would force the... Well i'll use the consecrated term, lolwuts, to join the forums, thus learning more about the community and rp, and anyone having noted a capital ship's name ingame could check its story on the forums.
Furthermore, this solution would not give any extra power to the factions (and really, they are fine as they are), and it would limit EVERY capital ship and force their owners to rp. It would neither give more work to the admins, as the rp stories would not need to be approved, but anyone could provide feedback about them, and the ships that really don't want to comply with the "rp minimum" would be deleted, pretty much as they currently are. This would be exactly as, again, Redcrab said : like the "white cells" in the ship equipment and id chart. A capship is supposed to be unusual, exactly as the white cell setups are.
This is not my idea, but i completely agree with it.
Now to Strom : what's the problem with people flying more "non-standard" ships than "standard" ones ? Doesn't that mean that their rp is more diversified than most ?
