' Wrote:RL pirates are imprisoned or worse. They certainly don't respawn with their ship and guns. Also RL piracy is a miniscule percentage of all trade traffic. There's zero piracy on the heavily-used lanes in the North Atlantic, for example. If disco was anything like RL, the houses simply would not allow pirate forces to develop any strength at all, and unlawfuls could only operate in very small groups or at the very edges of space on a very low-budget level (Somalians in Space basically).
It's a game, supposed to be fun not realistic. I play to get away from reality not to relive it. But in this case the metaphor that RL piracy exists doesn't even match up to the game, it's much much worse in the game, as it should be.
One of the reasons is unwillingness of players playing lawful characters to deploy necessary force to counter piracy on major trade lanes due ever-present whining on forums about unfairness.
