Too many Indy Order Capships

[Jihadjoe]

hardly ever visit the deep house space or the pirate homeworlds.

Yeh... Try it some day. Everything is agressive at malta. Freelancers are valid targets for being a freelancer and not an outcast, and someone saying 'no' to someone else shooting a freelancer starts a civil war... Liberty there's stuff getting gunned down left right and centre by just about every gun on everything thats to hand, from battleship to LF.

Rheinland has a whole heap of Rheinland Turtles (battleship) that used to appear in texas every day at roughly the same time of night. Agressive battleships arn't rare.

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[Kal-el]

Here is my suggestion. This is about how people choose to play. Some like bombers (most players), some like gunboats, and some like big caps. Some people do not like missiles or torps (gunboat missile spammers) or mine droppers.

Some people cannot hit the broadside of a barn (me) when it comes to bombers or fighters. I lose fights quite a bit (ok all the time) so we need to find a way to stay alive. What is a gunboat or cap to do when 3 or 4 bombers attack them? Is that not what missiles and torps are for? To take out the bombers? Hmmm...I think so.

Now to my suggestion. You want to limit caps. Ok. Lets do this. I say you limit all ships. How do you do that. By limiting the number of ships allowed to be sold where they are sold. You would have to hard code that in game but it would limit and force people to BUY other ships. Examples:

LF/Hf - 200 per base
Bombers/Fighters - 100 per base
Gunboats 75 per base
Caps - 25 per base

Something along these lines. Because lets face it. There are too many bombers as well. There are alot of ships that are not used at all. If you go to a base and try and by a barghest lets say and there aren't any to buy, well you are stuck in purchasing something else then aren't you? And why do people buy the bomber? Because it is the best and most powerful fighter in game and it is FAR to agile. People buy the BEST and MOST POWERFUL wepaons (snac) for any ship they purchase. A bomber is to BOMB not take on other fighters.

Is RP the real problem you want to limit indies from Caps? Or is it you just do not like caps period? You just prefer bombers/fighters. Just like some do not like missiles and torps. I remember a time when I was in my pirate bomber and the LN complained after being destroyed (not by me though) "what is with all the missiles, you not able to aim". Come on. Really. In a fight you are going to use whatever helps you in the fight.

I will agree with the restrictions only because every country makes fewer big ships and more smaller ships. They do it in the proper proportion to each other.

Just a thought.