' Wrote:I disagree. Why should we expect a faction to fly mostly fighters when most independents are flying battleships?
I understand your concern there, but we aren't discussing restricting factions from using capital ships at all, so we shouldn't do the same for independents.
From my understanding the issue has been player factions who do nothing but attack other factions with large groups of battleships. THIS is the problem.
Independents in battleships is not really an issue strictly for this one fact, they are not waging war on other factions.. If they go around PVP-Whoring.. It's because they are doing something out of RP and they *do* get sanctioned for it! We have a great admin staff and that kind of behavior is not taken lightly.
If you restrict independents from flying battleships what happens is this:
"Sorry, you cant fly that, you have to JOIN a clan (or form) and raise through the ranks to get a BS!"
In turn, people will join factions for the sole purpose of getting rank to fly a battleship. From there, guess what happens.. Oh noes, you guessed it.. Inter-clan conflict because one person (usually the leader and their favorite person in clan) get to fly the clans battleships.. Who'da thunk. Restricting independents will turn it into a "He's my favorite, your not. No BS for you!" - We don't need that.
And yeah, it is Freelancer.. This game was built on the fact of people working for themselves.. Being independent. Discovery was meant to expand on that. Now if you want to remove the ability for a independent player (which is how this game was made to be played!) to do what they want (also how the game was meant to be played) then remove all battleships from the mod. I for one would be PO'd. I'm not actively going after a BS, don't even want one really... But I would be damn PO'd if my rights as an independent pilot were TAKEN AWAY because of the misbehavior of FACTIONS.
That's my dollar... Take it or leave it - Nothing against you I just tend to get worked up on things I feel strongly about. And I stand by my opinion, factions are the problem, not lone players.
