Do too many factions have capital ships?

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In my opinion, there is too many caps ingame. Or more precisely too few types. Let me explain.

There is great amount of different faction. Some with great resources (such as military and police factions which are backed up by house corporation) some with good amount of resources (bounters, sairs, oc, hessies etc) and some with very limited resources (xeno, gaians etc). I haven't mentioned many factions of course but i hope that these will prove my point.

House military factions are suppoused to have all sorts of battleships. No argument there. They have both resources and manpower to keep them, but most important, they have reason to have them.

But the other factions?

I absolutely don't see reasoning behind battleships owned by other factions.
Example:
Bounters
GS, GB, Dessie, BC, BS are caps developed by bounters. I am fine with GB and GS but i disagree with having so much ships. BS are usually developed to destroy other BS and then bombard planets or something, destroying stations and so. Will bounters do such a thing? I don't think so. I understand need of dessie, few BC are ok too but whatfor is BS?

Another example:
More generally, sairs and OC have both acces to many ships. Whatfor do they need them? Or more importantly, do they need especially that battleships?

I think that every faction can make their way to small caps like GS and GB. I really like to see in every faction anti snub GS and anticap GB. That is something what everyone could achiev. Biggest disadvantage of BS is in their size and that they can operate in asteroid fields and so. Pirates tend to have hit and run behavior not overcome any house faction with ease and laugh during that. So too many factions have BS but i think that there is a line of reasoning. For every faction, this line lies elsewhere. For many it is at the GS level, for others at BS level.

Unfortunetaly, many players already has that ships. We can get rid of many BS but i think that it would be wise to replace BS with GB or GS (according to what they already have). Players with BS should get biggest ship his or her faction has to offer.

So i am not for removal but for the replacement. I think that it is better to choose between several GS/GB in pirate faction than choice between GB, cruiser, battlecruiser (if exist) and BS.

Hope that my english was good enough to explain my thoughts.

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