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Okay, I understand your point, and it has sence. Unfortunatly, it's already too late, to make some global changes, which would impowe, or not situation with capital ships. Restricting capital ships to offical faction only- at least, every offical faction should be re-viewed.
Re-design capital ships- but Im afraid, this shall take too long, and ofcrs, there will be players, who shall dislike it.
Lots of things could be re-made, however, we have caps, like they are now. This is bad, and good in same time.
I think there is no need for such complications like limiting caps only for officials, is discriminatory and a lot of players will get upset really ! How about implementing Connecticut Only a command just like the betatestcash for getting a cap of choice just for Conn practice; stations in conn will have cap weaponry available and once a while(2 months or 6 or....) admins will simply test some players...(they normally pew incognito anyway) and this is how 2 Bs go available for liberty, 2 for rheinland, 2 for kusari...and so on; and there u go, you dont have caps everywhere nor this mockery of so called ballance ! Done