Why is the community population declining?

[Lunaphase]

Blodo: You accuse me of pulling stuff out of my backside. I counter that with your constant zelotry of anything hessian.

You know full well theres nothing corporate pilots can get ahold of that can actually enable them to survive a fight with anything pirates can get.

A corporate pilot should not have to spend 250 million just to have a chance to not die against a 60 million gunboat. (assuming 100 for the hull, 150 for the cloak)

The problem, and why the population is declining, is simple and my point infact does correlate to this trend, and its one that has been echoed through each update, with the pirate tech getting another advantage, and the house corps getting nothing to compensate.

Battletransports were designed to have the firepower to be able to defend themselves, according to the entire point. Then why is it that a single pirate ship of anything not a LF can quite handily wreck them?

Corporattions should not have to spend 6x the amount a pirate will in order to be on equal footing. Currently, aside from a cloak, theres just nothing that puts them on any kind of equal footing, with cloaking cruisers and transports being nigh unkillable by corporations.

I dont consider needing 6-7 heavily armored ships to take on a single pirate player (still losing some, despite) as a benefit to the community as a whole.

People come here, and they see that anything they can get within a reasonable frame of time pretty much demands they behave like a simpring coward or die. People do not like to have a guarenteed failure upon contact.

Seeing as how the dev team proclaims traders are the lifeblood of the ecomony, one would think more variation in guns and ships would crop up. But patch after patch this "lifeblood" has been ignored. New guys are just swamped with stupidity and the cards stacked against them. Longtime veterans have to grind boring as hell trade runs to have a chance to roleplay what they intend. Not to mention most lawful stuff is somehow MORE EXPENSIVE than the pirate equivilent, which is in many cases superior.

Given the trend established with each patch, its not hard to see why people are becoming annoyed.

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