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Why no capships in high-sec?

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Beast of Revelations
Pandemic Horde Inc.
Pandemic Horde
#41 - 2017-04-15 15:38:27 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:

The people in high sec who think capitals are a good idea just don't understand how super rich 'bad guys' could use those to screw over everyone else (if you think it's bad for 'new players' right now, wait till that get blapped by a carrier's fighters when the carrier itself is 1000 km away).


Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but if I'm not (and maybe I am), you've played the game far too long to display this kind of ignorance. If a capital blaps someone in highsec unprovoked, the capital is destroyed by CONCORD. So this is a laughably non-issue on the face of it.

Look, at the end of the day, it's no big deal, and I really don't care that much either way. But it's kind of a shame that I've never even actually seen one of these things (yes, I've been to lowsec, nullsec, and wormhole space many times). I'd wager that most others haven't seen one either.
Mr Mieyli
Doomheim
#42 - 2017-04-15 15:58:51 UTC
Beast of Revelations wrote:
I'd wager that most others haven't seen one either.


That's part of the fun of caps. I still remember the first titan I saw, and was shocked just how big they are. Caps aren't that uncommon in low, me and a group of 3 others in cruisers have even been dropped by a frickin avatar so they are out there.

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Rroff
Antagonistic Tendencies
#43 - 2017-04-15 16:05:43 UTC
Beast of Revelations wrote:

Look, at the end of the day, it's no big deal, and I really don't care that much either way. But it's kind of a shame that I've never even actually seen one of these things (yes, I've been to lowsec, nullsec, and wormhole space many times). I'd wager that most others haven't seen one either.


That is the other thing - capitals should be something special(ish) sort of - if they were made even more of a next logical step above battleship, etc. it would lose even more of that.

Dunno how you've managed to play eve that long without running into a capital though heh.
mkint
#44 - 2017-04-15 16:07:54 UTC
If you just want to *see* a capital ship, it's incredibly easy. Keep an eye on the map for where cynos get regularly lit, and then go hang out there for a while. I've seen more capitals just randomly wandering then I have in actual war time.

And yeah, sure, capitals *could* be allowed in highsec. But the entirety of the game (even low/null/wh) is balanced around highsec *not* having capitals. So the game would basically need to be rewritten from the ground up. Capitals free to travel highsec will probably eventually happen, but it will be one of the signs of desperation that EVE is truly on it's last legs and out of good ideas and out of players.

@OP, never ever use "but sandbox!" as an argument. If you want a true sandbox, the program you're looking for is called a C++ compiler. And even that could be considered too restrictive to be a true sandbox based on the way you use the term. "Sandbox" is a garbage term, and using it in an argument makes you have a garbage argument. All software has limits, good software has deliberate limits.

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Coralas
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#45 - 2017-04-15 16:14:50 UTC
Beast of Revelations wrote:
Coralas wrote:

If you are risk averse, then you just need to buy the thing in a place where you are blue to the surroundings.

No reason to assume I'm 'risk averse,' I was just saying if I could think of something I'd do with it in highsec, undocking and taking it for a test run would be the only thing.

Quote:
If you are not able to achieve that, then you probably don't have a use for it anyway.


Don't know why people who love to spout "it's a sandbox" every other word out of their mouths also want to tell others what they have and don't have a use for, and why. Maybe somebody just wants to see the damn thing sitting in his hanger.


You are using the term sandbox yourself, you are in no position to complain about it being used.

Also why does it matter if its in a lowsec hanger, if you don't have a real use for it. Also there are quite a few lowsec station systems that are sufficiently low pop for you to be able to pop out and clear a port anomoly (something with battleships) to get a feel for it, without being interrupted, just align the moment you get there.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#46 - 2017-04-15 16:14:54 UTC
Differences in space are a good thing. It's not a progression mechanic, it's to give you different choices in different places.

Like Bubbles. Why no bubbles in lowsec? It's explicitly to make space different.

And your 'sandbox' argument misses the whole point of a sandbox; a relatively common mistake. It's not "I can do whatever I want, wherever I want". It's "here are a bunch of tools and rules, have at it."

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Elenahina
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#47 - 2017-04-15 16:20:25 UTC
Beast of Revelations wrote:
Jenn aSide wrote:

The people in high sec who think capitals are a good idea just don't understand how super rich 'bad guys' could use those to screw over everyone else (if you think it's bad for 'new players' right now, wait till that get blapped by a carrier's fighters when the carrier itself is 1000 km away).


Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but if I'm not (and maybe I am), you've played the game far too long to display this kind of ignorance. If a capital blaps someone in highsec unprovoked, the capital is destroyed by CONCORD. So this is a laughably non-issue on the face of it.

Look, at the end of the day, it's no big deal, and I really don't care that much either way. But it's kind of a shame that I've never even actually seen one of these things (yes, I've been to lowsec, nullsec, and wormhole space many times). I'd wager that most others haven't seen one either.



So this is the "didn't really want to win that argument anyway" concession of defeat. Right, got it. You're one of those. You pick an arbitrary position contrary to the established status quo, argue it into the ground, ignore counter arguments, or cherry pick the parts you can successfully argue against, while ignoring the rest, and then when you reach the point where continuing would just make you look like a jackass, you adopt one of two positions:

1. Well, I don't really care - I'm not sure why you guys are making such a big deal about this, or
2. You say we just don't understand what you're trying to say because we're just not getting it.

Trust me, we get it. You're an argumentative bastard troll. We all understand that. Message received captain. You can stop transmitting now.

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Arden Elenduil
Unlimited Bear Works
#48 - 2017-04-15 17:04:43 UTC
I for one would love capitals in highsec. In fact, I own 2 in highsec (from way back, never moved them). I can do exactly nothing with them except cruise around in system, and perhaps occasionally mine with them.

This is fine.

I would also love to fight with capitals in highsec, but at the same time I realize the impact it should have, and therefore I would have to disagree with allowing them in. They would need significant nerfs and crap applied to them to make them even remotely balanced and eventually you'd be left with a steaming pile of dung.
Rroff
Antagonistic Tendencies
#49 - 2017-04-15 17:19:40 UTC
Arden Elenduil wrote:
and perhaps occasionally mine with them.


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sero Hita
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#50 - 2017-04-15 19:14:18 UTC
Beast of Revelations wrote:


Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but if I'm not (and maybe I am), you've played the game far too long to display this kind of ignorance. If a capital blaps someone in highsec unprovoked, the capital is destroyed by CONCORD. So this is a laughably non-issue on the face of it.



Who is talking about unprovoked though? Jenna, is not in the part you quoted. That is just a badly made assumption on your part, and high degree cherry picking. You are aware that you can bait people into agressing you, and then when they are flashy drop the Caps (who nobody can attack without getting conchorded)? This is what the super rich will do to the rest. Not attacking someone unprovoked....

"I'm all for pvp, don't get me wrong. I've ganked in Empire, blobed in low sec. Got T-shirts from every which-where.. But to be forced into a pvp confrontation that I didn't want is wrong ccp." RealFlisker
Arden Elenduil
Unlimited Bear Works
#51 - 2017-04-15 19:32:17 UTC
Also, imagine station games played with capitals...yeah, not happening
Nicolai Serkanner
Incredible.
Brave Collective
#52 - 2017-04-15 20:17:30 UTC
Hello Meow Kitty wrote:
Hello Meow Kitty wrote:
Why are cap ships in the game at all?



No, I'm for ships that everyone can fly and enjoy with dynamic gameplay along with straightline balance. I'm not for ships a few old vets fly. How many legit new players start and say "hey I'm going to train straight into a cap ship and wait 6+ months."


Four year old newbie... still can not fly a capital but looking forward to the day I can.
Arden Elenduil
Unlimited Bear Works
#53 - 2017-04-15 21:33:07 UTC
Nicolai Serkanner wrote:
Hello Meow Kitty wrote:
Hello Meow Kitty wrote:
Why are cap ships in the game at all?



No, I'm for ships that everyone can fly and enjoy with dynamic gameplay along with straightline balance. I'm not for ships a few old vets fly. How many legit new players start and say "hey I'm going to train straight into a cap ship and wait 6+ months."


Four year old newbie... still can not fly a capital but looking forward to the day I can.


Trust me, don't...
Been there, done that, flew a supercap. Sold it again after a while
SurrenderMonkey
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#54 - 2017-04-15 22:49:36 UTC
Beast of Revelations wrote:


Yet another poster with diarrhea of the mouth syndrome, opening his mouth and spewing all manner of BS about which he knows nothing.


This is funny, because most of your posts rapidly betray the fact that your actual play experience is roughly zilch.

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Shae Tadaruwa
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#55 - 2017-04-16 00:51:08 UTC
Beast of Revelations wrote:
About the most I'd want to do with a capship in highsec would be undock and test the thing out a bit before actually using it in a real setting. I guess that makes me a carebear.

Yes, it does.

If you want to go try one. Go try one.

Don't whinge and whine, asking for CCP to give you a safe way to test it. That's very carebear, so yes, you are a carebear and this is a carebear whinge thread.

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Infinity Ziona
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#56 - 2017-04-16 02:48:12 UTC
Hello Meow Kitty wrote:
Why are cap ships in the game at all?

Its a long story.

Short answer - The reason you have battle ships with 200k ehp and then a weird jump from that to 2000,000 ehp then 20,000,000 ehp is CCP didn't have a long term plan and certain now fundamental mechanics like alliances, POS and their 10s of millions of HP were afterthoughts.

You also had a very vocal group that developed who wanted carebears forced out of highsec for ganking purposes and demanded no new toys for that area.

Very messy ad hoc development, worst I've seen in any game.

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Sir BloodArgon Aulmais
The Bannermen
The Initiative.
#57 - 2017-04-16 03:12:12 UTC
Arden Elenduil wrote:
Nicolai Serkanner wrote:

Four year old newbie... still can not fly a capital but looking forward to the day I can.


Trust me, don't...
Been there, done that, flew a supercap. Sold it again after a while


Super capitals and regular capitals are quiet different. One is a floating coffin (much less with citadels tho) and the other is nearly as versatile as a regular ship.

Carriers, rorquals, dreads, fax, all very fun ships to fly and you don't need to tie your pilot to them.
sci0gon
Kaira Innovations
#58 - 2017-04-16 03:48:46 UTC
Cade Windstalker wrote:
Capitals were originally allowed in High Sec when they were introduced, but they created a bunch of problems so they were removed.

If you could move or store Capitals in High Sec it would be incredibly easy to store power and project it out of High Sec, since the capitals could be stored in an NPC corp and have too much EHP to suicide gank they'd be effectively immune.

This isn't some hypothetical, CCP originally allowed Capitals in High Sec and removed them intentionally after player feedback and their own observations.


They removed them?

From what I remember, they stopped the production of capitals in high sec, they were never removed. This is the reason why the rules of capital transactions were made in the sales section.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=437047&find=unread

Also it wouldn't surprise me if some of the old carriers in high sec are now fax's due to the upgrades made previously converting carriers to fax's
Cade Windstalker
#59 - 2017-04-16 04:36:50 UTC
sci0gon wrote:
Cade Windstalker wrote:
Capitals were originally allowed in High Sec when they were introduced, but they created a bunch of problems so they were removed.

If you could move or store Capitals in High Sec it would be incredibly easy to store power and project it out of High Sec, since the capitals could be stored in an NPC corp and have too much EHP to suicide gank they'd be effectively immune.

This isn't some hypothetical, CCP originally allowed Capitals in High Sec and removed them intentionally after player feedback and their own observations.


They removed them?

From what I remember, they stopped the production of capitals in high sec, they were never removed. This is the reason why the rules of capital transactions were made in the sales section.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=437047&find=unread

Also it wouldn't surprise me if some of the old carriers in high sec are now fax's due to the upgrades made previously converting carriers to fax's


Sorry I was unclear, by removed I mean they removed their ability to access High Sec. The current rule for the remaining capitals in HIgh Sec is that they are essentially vanity items only. They aren't allowed to affect the game in any significant way or be used for offensive combat actions.

For example the Veldnaught gets used for mining and this is allowed because it doesn't mine very efficiently and almost any other ship would be a better choice. Similarly there used to be a mining Carrier off somewhere in Caldari space before Carriers got their drones removed. I believe that one is now a FAX.
Cade Windstalker
#60 - 2017-04-16 05:02:06 UTC
Infinity Ziona wrote:
Hello Meow Kitty wrote:
Why are cap ships in the game at all?

Its a long story.

Short answer - The reason you have battle ships with 200k ehp and then a weird jump from that to 2000,000 ehp then 20,000,000 ehp is CCP didn't have a long term plan and certain now fundamental mechanics like alliances, POS and their 10s of millions of HP were afterthoughts.

You also had a very vocal group that developed who wanted carebears forced out of highsec for ganking purposes and demanded no new toys for that area.

Very messy ad hoc development, worst I've seen in any game.


Lol! LolLolLol

If you think this is the worst development you've seen in any game then you haven't played enough games...

For what it's done and how long it's lasted, not to mention the complete lack of any of the "Raise the level cap and kill the old end-game" style wallpapering some other games have done to refresh their design, Eve has done a pretty good job all things considered.

Also as to why we have Capital Ships in the game at all it's not a long story. Someone at CCP said (paraphrased) 'It'd be really cool if we had these big capital ships in the game!' and some other devs went 'yeah that sounds awesome!' and so did some players and so we got capital ships.

The removal of Cap Ships from High Sec had nothing to do with "no new toys" they were never supposed to be there in the first place. CCP determined it was bad to allow them to be built there at all so they removed the ability.