' Wrote:For one thing, there is absolutely no justification for Corsairs to be in Liberty. It should be a sanction right there. What's next, Outcasts in Rheinland? Farmers Alliance in Bretonia? Wild in my back yard?
Again - yes there is, and the way the trade set up is on this mod made it so. I don't understand why people cant see it..
The only commodity Corsairs can trade with any real value is artifacts and these are now essentially worthless anywhere outside of manhatten - People are gonna go where the money is. RP wise, Corsairs make their money off the back of a successful artifact trade - which means, in RP terms, its one of their major lifelines and supply routes - It makes perfect sense for Corsairs to A: Be there, and B: defend their ships in the area.
People use the "there are no Corsair NPCs in Liberty" argument all the time but the way i see it that argument in this case has no merit. The Trade route was changed in the mod itself, which means the fundamental POLITICAL realities, which in some cases are visibly represented by placement of NPC's, have gone out the window. The value was pulled out of the commodity everywhere else, So, NPC's or not after the changes made it NOW makes sense for Corsairs to be there.
I don't know if this applies to the cap ship problem, but i think it does account for at least PART of the reason as to why you are seeing more corsairs in liberty. (Some people are probably just looking for PVP though, i think we can all agree on that).
I think for Corsairs in the next version the artifact trade needs to be revamped, Luxury liner Hawaii needs to have its prices put up again, so does Yanagi, and Trafalgar... that being the case, and i think you might see a few less Corsairs, traders and their escorts at least, in Liberty.
