05-04-2011, 02:32 AM
It has been my experience with the majority of pirates that I come across in my Zoner ships that you folks prefer to leave us alone. There's been many an occasion where I've drifted on by either in silence or in some cases with a polite hello. Others when I'll come across a pirate doing nasty things to another transport and they'll take a moment to stop and wave to us.
Now, I realize a lot of independent pirates utilize Freeports and could understand why they don't exactly want to come off as hostile there, that we (OSI at least) feed Corsairs and they'd smile a bit, but the rest of the factionized folks don't do much of anything. I'd expect Mollies and Rogues to plunder the snot out of us, for example.
My question is thus: why is this so? Why don't we catch a little less slack moving cargo?
To go ahead and answer it, yeah, I'm asking to be pirated. As a member of the OSI HC, I'm proud of how we've handled our diplomacy, but gosh darnit, our players have it too easy and we've not got a whole lot to work for in terms of fixing things. I said this in the RHA feedback, but as OSI players, the closest thing we have to any sort of antagonists are the Omicroners. This, to be frank, is a lot of the reason why I put in for the Daumann TMS contract, as it'd make some of the Rheinland unlawfuls a little less than pleased.
That, and it's always good to have some connections.
I'm interested to see why some of the players tend to be more lenient with Zoners. It's not so much a bother, of course, just a curiosity.
Now, I realize a lot of independent pirates utilize Freeports and could understand why they don't exactly want to come off as hostile there, that we (OSI at least) feed Corsairs and they'd smile a bit, but the rest of the factionized folks don't do much of anything. I'd expect Mollies and Rogues to plunder the snot out of us, for example.
My question is thus: why is this so? Why don't we catch a little less slack moving cargo?
To go ahead and answer it, yeah, I'm asking to be pirated. As a member of the OSI HC, I'm proud of how we've handled our diplomacy, but gosh darnit, our players have it too easy and we've not got a whole lot to work for in terms of fixing things. I said this in the RHA feedback, but as OSI players, the closest thing we have to any sort of antagonists are the Omicroners. This, to be frank, is a lot of the reason why I put in for the Daumann TMS contract, as it'd make some of the Rheinland unlawfuls a little less than pleased.
That, and it's always good to have some connections.
I'm interested to see why some of the players tend to be more lenient with Zoners. It's not so much a bother, of course, just a curiosity.