A Discovery without Capital Ships

[Cellulanus]

The problem is not with the ships, but with the pilots.

[Lucas_Fernandez]

The problem is not with the ships, but with the pilots.

//signed

Voted No

[darthbeck]

as the owner of two cruiser's, i voted no.


not because i dont want to lose my hard earned cruisers, but because its the players, not the ships.

i know some players who have battleships, and have an amazing level of RP.

and yet... there are entire factions where i've never seen more then a dozen lines of ingame RP from them, and have been killed some four times.



again, its the players, not the ships.

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[underd0g]

Voted "do not remove any..."

Why ?

It doesn't matter what ships are available in Discovery. Actually it doesn't matter what game you're in, there will always be people that just can't behave themselves when they can act quite anonymously.

What can be done then ?

Make it even harder to get that lolwutpwn-cap. In fact, make it near impossible. If I had had some say in it I'd had made them exclusive to the players that can and will roleplay them - special roleplay request only. But I don't.

They're supposed to be majestic pieces of space machinery, and by all right you should want to own one - but now they're just (still) to easily aquired. It did not help moving them to guard systems. Attaining guard status only proves that you can kill NPC's, and that you're possibly good at doing just that. There's no RP in guard.

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My characters on Disco:
[LN]-Andy.Doggett, The.Flying.Betty, Russ.Dalton, Harald.Treutiger

Stories:
The Shellback Identity
Trader Blues

[Drake]

Gotta say no. Capships are cool, they add a lot to the mod when not abused. And without them our regular server population would be <50, I'd guess. Battleships attract players, and many good players were attracted by them as well as lolwutters.

[FooFighter]

Attaining guard status only proves that you can kill NPC's, and that you're possibly good at doing just that.

Not even that. I just paid somebody else to guardrep my Navy chars for me:P.

The only good way of keeping lolwutters from getting caps is faction/admin control. Raisin their prices doesn't do anything. Lolwutters are tenacious people, and many of them don't mind the mindless powertrading required to get the biggest ship on the server. Prices have been raised in .84 iirc and it didn't help. Prices have been raised in .85 and trading has been gimped yet we still have a lot of lolcaps and new ones are being made every few days.

[Altaris]

Battleships and Cruisers only for special RP!!!

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Carnage itself flying within void...
Proud cardihead ever since 2008...
You all gonna eat cardi!

...also im a troll, so hate me.

[masternerdguy]

nothing to me is more oorp than watching a battleship undock from another one and use /stuck 50 times to get free only to plunge into a planet's atmosphere.

/signed:)

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Send the fat kid in to see if its a trap

[FooFighter]

Battleships and Cruisers only for special RP!!!

If special RP permissions would also be obtainable by demonstrating ingame RP instead of writing a novel on the forums, I'd completely /sign this.

[Altaris]

If special RP permissions would also be obtainable by demonstrating ingame RP instead of writing a novel on the forums, I'd completely /sign this.

Of course no novel. But player must be capable of RP. At the moment, 60% cap users are ****ty RPers, which shouldn't have Battleship and Cruiser at all. Those who are capable of RPing with Battleship are worthy to obtain it.

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Carnage itself flying within void...
Proud cardihead ever since 2008...
You all gonna eat cardi!

...also im a troll, so hate me.