Increasing snubcraft cruise speed to 355

[SnakThree]

With recent thread of Pavel, an issue of so called off plane trading was raise. I personally have not witnessed first hand, or heard about this thing happening, but I have another issue, even worse one. It's the traders who are actually using lanes, but when a pirate drops them out of one AND proceeds to roleplay before CDing the target only to see that trade ship already cruising away from him, out of CD range and with no hopes to catch it.

A possible solution to this fix is not nerfin the trasnport cruise speed, but the increase of small craft speed. This would mean that Heavy Fighters, Very Heavy Fighters, Super Heavy Fighters and Bombers would cruise at 355 maximum speed, which is only so little increase.

This means, that a transport cruising for 5 minutes, would travel 105k, while snubcrafts mentioned, 106.5k. This is only 1.5k per 5 minutes difference, but it would discourage those transports to flee, because the snubcraft would catch up in the end and have his interaction.

This gives no direct nerf to transports regarding profit/time ratio. It only discourages the silent transports, that would rather fly for hours to the void, instead of interacting with bunter/lawful/unlawful snubcraft.

In addition, snubcrafts would be a little bit faster while traversing the systems where no lanes exist. This would promote faster intercations between factions whose main ZoI is in such system.

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