I suicided once as captain. My entire team camped off the map on the one side, the enemy team camped off the map on the other side, I was all alone in the middle before I said bye. I won’t play matches that I don’t enjoy. If you want to ban me for it, so be it.
I suicided once as captain. My entire team camped off the map on the one side, the enemy team camped off the map on the other side, I was all alone in the middle before I said bye. I won’t play matches that I don’t enjoy. If you want to ban me for it, so be it.
Actually, I would have done the same thing. Boring games are just a waste of time.
The best thing to do, which I do as often as I can when I’m captain, is to talk to the team Via Chat or Text.
If I say, FOLLOW ME, and all frigates protect me, that does not mean to sit at spawn!
Its within the game rules to be shot down by enemy players. If your team allowed that to happen, then you just have a bad team!
Oh I talked to them of course, got called a Ace. 
Even in that scenario you could disconnect so the captain gets changed. Then let them camp-fest without ruining their game.
Well not to sound like an ACE but the flipside of the clueless Newbie being picked as CAPT is the “NOT SO HIGH MIGHTY” who may think they know how to “TEASE” and be up there in the front line but venture or linger too far without the supporting cast.
What is even more fustrating when you these CAPT’s trump out in an LRF and they decide to CAMP out in WIDE OPEN space.
You get the same feeling of what the heck ( usually not the word I use) and why should I attempt to support as you know it may not go well.
IMO there may be only precious FEW players that would be EFFECTIVE in LRF as an CAPT. Even then hopefully they are with a squad to provide that foundation for the supporting cast.
Even in that scenario you could disconnect so the captain gets changed. Then let them camp-fest without ruining their game.
In that case I guess I could have, didn’t even think of that possibility. Generally it’s a pretty nasty thing to do to switch captains mid game and potentially put it on that cov-ops that’s just about to die on a self-destruct run.
IMO there may be only precious FEW players that would be EFFECTIVE in LRF as an CAPT. Even then hopefully they are with a squad to provide that foundation for the supporting cast.
6 guns with 75% damage bonus are good fun actually, I used to captain once in a while in my Ira Deus gunboat in T3. But you have to be really careful what you field it against. My last game of CR was a 3v3 in T4, enemy captain spawned in an empire LRF so I just flew my recon over for an easy cap eat cap medal. But if you have the proper team and the right enemies then it can work.
When i levelled my LRF, i had to capt a couple times in that. It works nicely in T2.