' Wrote:Look, you can be as elite as you want - be the Kossak of modernity if you want, but even that, can't beat a super power. And Liberty is one. Liberty is probably thousands time richer than corsair should be, it can mobilize a force Corsairs cant match (since they are starving, obviously natality should be low)
If liberty cant win in a one on one fight with you, they CAN and WILL swarm you with their numbers. And they can afford to, because Alaska obviously has some of their most scret stuffs over there, and theyd defend it at all cost.
I'm not gonna say the name of the war in which a band of so called "peasant" soldiers trounced a European world power, and then went on to humiliate the worlds greatest superpower - but its starts with a "V".
Again, reputation for being Elite counts for nothing, back it up with real force or its all a lot of hot air. Sure liberty is a major house with greater economic power, which the Corsairs don't have - but that doesn't mean Corsairs aren't going to attack and raid targets in liberty... What they are NOT able to do is STAY there....
I'm not saying Corsairs ignore the NPC's in Alaska.. they cant... they get shot by them... but what im saying is that if Liberty is serious about stopping people coming through Alaska to New York then its gonna be up to the Human players to do it - why don't the human players park some ships regularly at the mouth of the minefield? it makes perfect sense to me... protect your secret base with real protection.
Arguing whether Zone 21 and Alaska are secret or not from the point of view of the Corsairs is a waste of time, They know it's there, The Order knows its there, and they are using it. I have done the Alaska run to NY many times, I've done it in my gunboat a few times as well so i can make some money - i have never ONCE ran into a Liberty Force stationed at the mouth of the mine field - ..I would love to jump into NY one time and find a couple of Human Cap ships sitting at the minefield entrance pointing big nasty guns at me and saying "Boy.. you sure are in the wrong place" - There is no room to maneuver in that mine passage....
