soo - would you all be happy if we deactivated all capital ships? - in the end, we saw many complaint about house capital ships, too.
would it make everyone happy if players in general were not allowed to fly capital ships? - ( and bombers .. .no point in bombers when no one flies a cap )
and "yes" - i do consider that kind of debate a bit tiring after seeing it the dozenths time in a year. - capital ships are disco, faction developement is disco - wether you like it or not. some factions HAVE capital ships ... and they use them.
capital ships are free-for-all and not approved by some devine being for their personal minions. ( the later woudl cause endless problems ) - the capital ship population IS HEALTHY on the server.. . in fact, there are really just the right amount of capital ships around ( pirate and BHG ) - they concentrate sometimes in certain spots - but its not hard to avoid them.
this is NOT a problem - these ships are needed - even if they were only part of an arms race. - but NO faction wants to give up their ships. - tell the BHG to give up their capital ships? - you can also tell the corsairs to do the same - or the outcasts .... no one is propared for the outrage.
so we keep them and generally hope that players become responsible. - and indeed, players DO become responsible - ( and then they switch to a bomber or LF mk2, cause they can kill much easier that way ) <-- once the switched, they start complaining about the nasty capships... .
many a players that have abused the power of the capital ships before are now responsible members of factions or something else - but it took a process to get there.. some players that were responsible then are still responsible, others had a capital ship back then - and still have it - and use it in a much better manner. - the point is ...
out of 500 players - it only takes 5 to mess it up - but 5 players is no majority and no reason for nerfs.