Tranports vs Caps

[Harcourt.Fenton.Mudd]

I've been against this rule since be fore it went into effect, and if it wasnt for me Gafwmn and others spaming the thread when it got started, power smugglers would have been save from the navy in Z21 and Alaska.

However, I think that SOME of the protections should remain, when it comes to priate caps.

If a person smuggles, they made a CHOICE. And running things like slaves is also usualy a big clue it may be illegal.

EVERYONE has to make credits, and trading is supposed to be one of the big ways of doing that.

Combine that with the fact that unlike the houses the pirates dont have endless numbers of capitals to risk on risky piracy runs, and the general fairplay issue, and caps shouldnt be able to pirate.

That, or make ALL pirate caps SRP and allow them to pirate, BUT if a pirate cap (or any cap really) is caught essently going 'lol thanks for hte ore' (or any other item) followed by pew pew w/o giving the t ransport a chacne to respond (Or otehr rule violations, or general 0.0 type abuse) the cap in question should cease to exist, along with quite potentely a good chunk of the players stuff.

Now, even better, and this would stop the fighterwhores from being able to cry about the capwhores, make ALL caps SRP.

Remove the power plant from all caps when sold, add it back in to the new ships when someone gets OKd.

Make all currently existing caps exempted from it.

Then start weeding out the bad ones.

Have in the rules that BUYING one w/o premession means you need to wait another two weeks then apply again, and the one you bought that you now cant launch due to a missing power plant will NOT get the power core added.

This will be a HEAVY reminder for folks to read the damned rules.

I dont know about other folks, but Im tired of all of the new players that dont bother to read the rules, then seem *gasp* shocked when they get a sanc. It's annoying, and retarded.

But we restrict NEW caps and weed out the bad ones from the currently existing ones, and that would go a LONG way to making the relaxing or removal of this rule actualy worth it.


As for why it was added, remember back in .84 the height of RP was for a nightly unlawful cap raid on the NY system, a camping trip of sortts, one in which basicly every base in NY would usualy be camped for at least part of an hour by a swarm of pirates, those pirates were also there to protect their smuggeling buddies, who the lawful caps were able to blow up, becasue the smugglers tended to be absolute idiots and either just go direct via the lanes, or run right thru Z21, or do rotues that involved skipping from guard system to guard system (why DO they link up like that anyway, its not like the admins need the backdoor route), then they would wonder why they kept getting shot by battleships, and cry about it to the admins, then his rule was born. Yeah, there were some idiots back then house navies and their indies had a LOT more discression for shooting the hell, repeatedly, out of some idiot misusing a cap (or anything for that matter).