I've been here for a while. Every month, there is someone who complains about capital ships, laments the demise of the fighter, stomps his or her feet about missile turrets, flak, what have you. There is a cycle, I've determined, that focuses on the tide of Discovery. The ebb and flow of fighters, bombers, and capital ships. And every time, the suggestions are the same.
And let's be honest. It's all hot air. Nothing is going to be done about it. Nothing really *needs* to be done about it. But as long as there is something to nitpick about, there *will* be people to nitpick about it. And I'm not flaming (Read: NOT. Meaning, unintentionally or otherwise, I ain't doing it. So thank ye, admins, for passing over my post and understanding that I'm making a statement about the world in a third-person, detached way. No flames here.) AC_Merc. I am merely stating that there is always, always, always some overarching pitchforks-and-torches kinda problems. And it usually stratifies the community in twain.
Well. This is what I suggest.
Leave it the way things are now. There are problems that have been addressed and ignored (for various reasons, none of which really matter nor are flame-related. Just, y'know, interest dwindles and so it becomes forgotten) that are FAR more important than capital ship usage. So let me just say, yes. We have lots of capital ships. I'm with ya on that one. And why not? When it comes right down to it, capital ships don't necessarily take that much skill to pilot. To drive one WELL does, yeah, but you're, more or less, invincible in a capital ship.
And who doesn't want to be invincible?
There will be the F_Wolves (Not flaming, merely citing a common critic. I'd use quotes, but I can't be bothered to learn how.) who bemoan the fact that pirates are unable to use capital ships. There will be the Wasabis who demand that Igiss is trying to screw us all over. There will be the Malaclypse_666es who don't give a hoot and just want to play the game. And there will be the Harlequinns who come and make general observations that are really, really obvious and yet cannot remain unstated.
The problem isn't necessarily the ships. It is the people who are driving them. The people who are too lazy to capitalize their sentences. I'm penning the blame (not flaming, blaming. A minute difference, but one that I shall use until I die) on the caliber of player we have. And we can't necessarily gauge and increase this caliber, because that would make us elitists. And no one likes a Hitler-server.
There isn't a magical cure. There are witch-hunts. Do what you will, I've decided that my opinion is good for these kinds of posts and little more. If the consensus swings in favor of removing capital ships, all the protesting in the world on my part won't stop it. And if the consensus is to ban capital ship shields, well, again, my protests won't stop it.
Administrators, none of this post should be considered flame. Just want to make that clear. I'm making an argument that doesn't insult any particular person. To everyone else, please, don't take offense to my long-winded post. Thanks!
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