ships geting closed in .86

[Jinx]

@Reptile:

to be fair - i distinctly remember cannon ( or maybe another admin - but i think it was cannon ) - say that the spyglass was "unlocked" till 4.86 - so that players could go nuts with it till then - so when they unlocked it - it was already said that the future status of it was at best - uncertain.

i cannot / don t want to search for that statement now - but i m fairly sure it was said.

i cannot remember how the spyglass started ( HF or LH ) ... but it took the path of the dominant faction. - i further doubt that anything will be refunded ... cause players have lost ships with pretty much every update so far - and ships were never refunded.

admins usually grant a generous grace period to get rid of it ( usually some 3 months give or take a few days ) .... it happened to the lib rogues before, to ppl who had the huntress cruiser, - basicly to every player who faced his ship of choice being claimed by one faction or another - or moved to another faction for balance purposes.





@pencakes:

it gets tiring a bit - statistics still show that there are a lot less cruisers / battlecruisers / battleships on the server than other ships ( roughly less than 10% are CR, BC, BB ) .... spamming is mostly seen by people who WANT to see spamming of ship types.

so i think we should better rely on the statistics - which currently say that there are like 10 times more snubs out there than capital warships. - and if you happen to run into a bunch of battleships on your journeys - enjoy the thought that somewhere else - other players enjoy a total and utter void of capital warships entirely.

in other words - it has always been a policy not to give players too much power, cause they happen not to be very responsible with it ( meaning - they mistake personal for important - and make decisions based on personal feelings rather than RP backgrounds )

the recent attempt to limit a shiptype ( zoner caps - which was also not to keep them for officials and take them from indies - but it was a fair one to make equal rules for both, indies and officials alike ) was rejected. - with - after all ... good reason.


edit: experience shows that :

- people often separate a community in "us" and "them" - and generously place themselves on the "us" side
- "us" being associated with "good", "them" being associated with "bad"
- so ppl tend to ask to have toys taken away from "them" - but "us" are the responsible ones who should be allowed the toys.
- sometimes they say that they are not interested in the toys at all - but it turns out that in the very case that they "might" be interested in it at some time .... they will of course expect to be treated as one of "us" - who get their wishes approved.

what follows are networks of players ( not characters ) who curry favours, brown nose and make deals with skype friends to get what they want - which is hardly the spirit of a RP server.

keep in mind - the choice of a ship you want it NOT a priviledge! - it is a right... . ( well - in 99% of the cases that is )

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