(10-28-2024, 06:30 PM)R.P.Curator Wrote: What about Piracy?
How is this factored in the transport balance?
Up until now, most pirates favored bombers (solo and group). Since the age of piracy has set, the amount of pirates encountered (people who don't switch ships when they see you entering a system) has been reduced drastically.
With these new additions and the future additions to Transports, will bomber pirates still be viable? Currently, 1 bomber needs about 5-10 minutes to dispatch a good transport pilot, not mentioning frigates, and not without taking damage.
You need capital ships to pirate now. Solo bombers simply don't have the firepower necessary to even threaten a half competent transport player, even less so if they are getting buffed again. I don't actually think I've met more than a small handful of pirates since 5.0 released, and the ones that I have seen have all been in capitals
