Good day pirates, Rogues, Hackers, Outcasts and the occasional Junker.
I come to you with a humble request. Please could you stay out of and stop pirating at the following trade lanes:
Manhattan Fort Bush
Manhattan West Point
Why am I asking this?
I ask this because all I have seen when I log in is a gunship or two, with or without a Barghest or some other powerful fighter in tow. They just sit there and pirate or 'PvP-lure' people to get their own way, and their own kicks. This is bad people. That is one sided roleplay.
While I am willing and even enjoy the odd pirate fight with my Sentinels, but fighting so close to a House capitol planet is just pure non-sense. That's like holding up a truck convoy on a Freeway just outside Washington D.C. It just doesn't happen.
On any other lane, I can understand, near the Pittsburgh is the debris fields, near the West Point Missouri lane is the illustrious Bad Lands. But camping outside of a capital planet's lanes where it is the heart of an empire is just plain silly. Even OORP in my opinion.
We and by that I mean the LPI, Navy and LSF I hear stay the hell away from Rochester and Buffalo unless there is a darned good reason. Its only fair and sportsmanlike.
I think this can also be echoed in any House system too. There are places to pirate away from such a proximity to a capitol planet.
I ask for some common sense and restraint. I know you need to feed your kids, but staying so close to the House planets will mean they'll be orphans.
This is Fletcher, a player talking to the community.