(05-29-2015, 01:38 PM)Zen_Mechanics Wrote: Well i'm doing pirating myself and I don't complain about anything, Pirating is hard
There is a difference between 'hard' and impossible, as long as the miner is not a complete idiot they see you 14k away, they click on the POB they press F3. There, you no longer have a hope of pirating anyone. Although you do have a lovely POB chain firing Cerberus/Solaris shots at you, enjoy.
Please dont misunderstand me - well i am personally not a fan of bases with many turrents in the middle of a field. but tell me how a hegemon can escape a pirate for example in Tau 23 - no base around - and beeing that big (fat) that he has to start spamming "/stuck" just to get out of the field.
is there anyway a possibility to escape from a pirate in a hegemon (-> 'hard' and impossible) ? i think this is more important to be rebalanced.
plz dont reduce the "pob in mining field" to a pirate/miner Problem. It's to point out that traders can get some of the raw / to be mined materials without a miner.
POB's increase the interaction (supplier/pirate) because they have to be supplied - means at least 3 tours for a freighter each day = 6 single tours = (buying supplies - then to base - then back buying supplies ...)
yesus i remember "Murcielago" pirate of the sigmas driving him mad entering System from random Location (we became friends with this interactions).
Ore selling bases make it easier for pirates getting some victims - because most people do the tour more than 1x.
easy to sort them out when you did scan them once.
beeing realistic i dont know many people who ONLY do mining. most do have freighters, too. think of the "big fun" such a person has, beeing pirated 1st in mining ship, short after in the trader.
before a pob like Bauxite was planted people did use their hegemon, moved to planet, dropped in front of planet, switched to transport and tractored. playerbases now stopped this -in my eyes- oorp. by the way: only a few people did mine in munich before the base was deployed.
nearly 2 years ago DHC had another base in munich - including a jump-drive-taxi service. noone did complain about.
MontBlanc - well i did know 2 ppl doing mining in this System - before base was build. Montblanc did the clever way - free for all ships to dock -
The playerbase guide says ... before you deploy your base ... check local authorities, look for asteroid fields, mine fields, places with Radiation ... they may help shielding your base.
and here a little help for our poor pirates: equip your ship with a cloak, move to pob cloaked, de-cloak, shoot at base, (now sarcastic) kill the miner or say some funny words like "drop all" - "no" ? shame shame bang
But 1 Problem will stay: the accidently shooting the base - there a little tolerance would be fine - like base starts shooting back after the 1st repairs are needed - which would make pirates happy - and giving the blacklist a perfect sense.