Pirates

[AshHill07]

To be honest, with the whole escort thing, it probably would be better if there was some way to force a pirate to destroy escorts before they can attack the transport.

I have tried escorting before and the chances of you actually killing the pirate before he blows up the transport is somewhere between zero and none.

Transports just can't soak up that much damage and unless the pirate plays ball (actually decides to destroy the escorts first) or is in a particularly rubbish ship or just generally rubbish at PvP (Which is unlikely since hes a pirate) then the transport usually goes up pretty quick.

Although on the terms of pirates going for blue messages I still get solo pirates trying to rob my LABC when they're in fighters. I get the distinct impression they're just seeing how long they can last against me. Which is about as realistic as a trader telling a pirate "Kill me I'm not paying". Either that or they have some delusion that large warships carry large sums of cash on them and will be willing to pay a pirate HF about 5 mil, which is also not exaclty realistic.

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