Capital Ship Realism

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Regardless, far more than your projected 1% of cap ship users are lolca- i mean roflcap-tors. Sure, one can say that a significant portion of capital ship users are responsible and good rp-ers, but it only takes one to ruin a good thing. Hell there's way more than one - just check the sanction board. It's way too common for some trader that doesn't even speak english to grind trade routes into oblivion, scrape up enough money to get... say... a liberty assault carrier - and wreck havoc. Usually this involves something like "PIRat U die Nao!" or something like that, but you get the picture. Keep in mind that this is an RP server... and cap ships are supposed to be oodles of RP served with a side of RP, drenched in a coating of RP sauce and garnished with a small clove of RP (since well... it's not for combat, as the nerfs have kindly reminded us, nor is it for trading, as their cargo space is clearly not suited for it, nor for is it for exploration, as they're slow and unwieldy - so what's left is that they're there to look at, fulfill a role in rp, and perhaps, if Freud was right, serve as a way for us to get back at our fathers for some reason or another - or to compensate for certain shortcomings, but that is a conversation best saved for the flood :/)

The capital ships currently cannot wreck havoc, that is the idea.

Increasing the price of capital ships and making them generally cost more will only push away "good rp-ers" as they cannot afford to keep up.

The current system for capitals IS a solution to the overwhelming horde's of idiotic capitals swarming our Discoverse. However it is within reason, which is sensible.

On a final note:

The point isnt about the numerical percentage of how many cap ships there are, the point is about how many people have them - how easy it is to get them - and how easy it is to abuse them.

It's not about the number of capital ships..it's about the number of capital ships that people have..I can see the massive difference in that sentence.

Bombers and fighters are FAR easier to get than capital ships and are abused far, far more.

Why not make them ultra expensive and cost money to maintain?
Large amounts that is, to stop idiots abusing them.

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