Do too many factions have capital ships?

[Prysin]

I utterly agree. I would state that the IMG does more actual business as a faction (with real live human players RPing) that any other faction (maybe FTU, but we are allied). Yet we are totally ok with having cruisers and below.

The starving Hispanic people eaters and a drug cartel can field dreadnaughts? What the hell? I thought that Malta IRP had a very low population and put a premium on skilled pilots. Over the years with the amount of Outcast caps that have been blown up by the IMG alone you would not have anymore pilots to field your caps. Malta has only one major city on the entire (inhospitable) planet :crazy:and you have trouble bearing children . And the Sairs buy ossies instead of buying food; how have you not overthrown and eaten the so called elders yet?

Lets leave the big caps to the "big 4". Knock the ossie down to cruiser specs to match its cruiser size and we've made it fair.

Your forgetting something.
The outcast nation, through its extensive drug export is possibly THE richest nation of all. Compared to its size, the wealth can actually rival that of any of the other four houses. You do not need the have the resources yourself if you have the funds to acquire them from junkers and others.

The corsair empire has an "exchange deal" with "kusari".... They get food in exchange for artifacts. Corsairs are also heavily dependant on piracy, and when MILLIONS farm the omicrons, omegas, sigmas, bretonia and kusari then its more then obvious enough that they require what resources they need.

Both the outcast and corsair nations are the size of a small house. They control half a dozen systems and each of them has influence in about 2/3rds of Sirius. Their playfield is so large and is so extensive that they can freely control whatever resource supply they need.

People are also mixing something up. In reality neither corsairs or outcasts have as many caps as ingame. Ingame = / = inRP lore. In Canon lore, neither house would have more then 2-4 dreadnoughts and 2-3 battleships AT MOST. Outcasts are by lore also stated to be heavily relying on the RM-1 Cruiser, the predecessor to our current cruiser ingame. Which is reflected by the extensive army of cruiser patrols in Alpha.

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