The Big Ones, their amount and a possible solution

[Scorpio]

I would be intrested to hear your thoughts on the indies that areadly have caps AND can RP them to an exeptable digree. orther then that i think the idea has a lot of merit

Edit: Spelling Fail...It's early

[dodike]

TCS: You're missing a few steps in your plan. Provided that the admins would even want this kind of overhead:
- Delete all existing caps.

That said, making operating capital vessels a lot more expensive could help too. Right now, you buy em, and if they boom, you lose about 1M in bots/bats you have to re-buy. Applying a death penalty of about 5% of the ship value would discourage lolcapping - Every time a battleship dies, it'd be a good 6-20M down the tube (as opposed to less then 1M for a well-equipped bomber). Not sure if it can be done though.

If the price didn't discourage people from getting it I don't think that some cash penalty would. But it would force to them to other roles that provide some money.

[William Frederick Cody]

Not to mention the paperworks.

I doubt, that the admins and faction leaders would like this..

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[conspiracy]

Again - we don't propose people with ships lose them. There was not a word about that in the proposal as it is. We would like to discuss such an aggressive move further, since we understand people would not like it.

[Alex.]

I don't foresee much change if no caps disappear. (No complaints here though.) I thought you're trying to make them more rare to see and more often considered good than bad players?

[dodike]

Q: Is this aimed at reducing capspam?
A: In a way, yes. We would like to get rid of various so-called 'lolwutting' ships. The players capable of actual roleplay would not be touched by it - after they do their application properly, and show they are capable of roleplaying a flagship.

Could this lead to faction leaders denying valid requests in order to keep steady number of capships in certain factions?

[Enoch]

The problem is, there is already a lot of caps around here. So an idea aiming at reducing the number of caps should focus on how to get rid of the ones already flying, not trying to prevent more people to buy them because that wouldn't change things that much.
Besides, if we start making caps disappear, it's gonna Q_Q like there's no tomorrow.

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[Alex.]

Besides, if we start making caps disappear, it's gonna Q_Q like there's no tomorrow.

Except that there'd be a valid reason for people to Q_Q compared to normal. (Which is obviously a stupid thing to cause.)

[Montezuma/Kukulcan]

I would just like to see the old Faction Right #5 put in place. Namely having factions decide whether or not someone may or may not fly a capital ship. Because as they are, in certain areas, things have really got out of hand when it comes to indy caps.

I believe this is pretty much what you're saying as well, if so, I completely agree with you.

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[Enoch]

I would just like to see the old Faction Right #5 put in place. Namely having factions decide whether or not someone may or may not fly a capital ship. Because as they are, in certain areas, things have really got out of hand when it comes to indy caps.

I agree.
I'd like it to see the #5 restrict more ships too. But then the indies will whine (and they'll probably be right).

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