' Wrote:Such strong language arguing even when you're absolutely wrong...
Besides being "home" in a manner of speaking, Rheinland is well within Das Wilde's operating range. You don't see Order NPCs in NY because you don't see the Order in NY (not in large numbers, anyway). There's Red Hessians in Omega-3 because it's within their ZoI, and that's farther from Vogtland than New Berlin is from Rockhome (or at least similarly distanced). There's Outcast NPCs pretty far from Malta, too. And Corsairs all the way in Leeds (if I'm not mistaken). Dun think Leeds is closer to Crete (or any Corsair base for that matter) than New Berlin is to the Wilderness.
Oh, and our home system has NPCs. The dozens of dead battleships can attest to this. Our home system actually has the scariest NPCs outside of Gallia... although Omicron Iota-hell is still a nastier place to be. Oh wait, IIRC there's Wild patrols around Dur-Shurrikun.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we do in fact have NPCs in our home system as well as within our primary operating area.
As for your comments on transports...
Did it ever occur to you that there's supposed to be reasons to get ships that aren't the biggest and baddest? 5ks have the advantage that if uninterrupted you get a lot more money than other people do. They have the disadvantage that if you don't pay pirates you're going to die. Other transports have things like dodging, guns, or armor to compensate for the fact that they don't have a 5k hold. As a result, you see people in transports other than the 5ks. This is called balance.
Oh, and if you're in a transport with guns on it and a bomber kills you solely by shooting you continuously with its guns, chances are you were either fighting an absolute ace who was just messing with you or you really need to learn to aim. Transport guns aren't friendly, and things like the Shire make gunboats (plural) cry.
If you can't find good routes than either you aren't looking hard enough or you have a bad definition of "good".
Lolpirates also tend to congregate. If you can't deal with them, then trade somewhere else. Like, oh, Rheinland. Or Bretonia.
I really hate to say it... but I think the best advice right now is "lrn2play".
First off,
I know how to effin play the game. I am in effin Rheinland, to get away from lolpirates. Large transports effin sux. Period. I didn't say:
OH LOOK I CAN'T POWER TRADE BECAUSE THE NPCS ARE UBER, AND MY 1 SYSTEM SHORTCUT HAS UBER NPCS.
I did say, that the NPC's are overpowered, spawning in groups of 12, and cd spamming the crap out of you. I love how you grammar nazi fool's jump in on every ones posts, drop your "I R NERD" bombs, then fly off.
Transport weapons are ok. The fact that the 5k transports have crap armament, no cm's, and have huge blind spots is not.
I don't care if you have 3k + posts, Sovereign, you still don't get it.
Bombers can chain fire. I have seen it, I don't give a eff what any of you say, bombers with a 4.0 refire rate is ridiculous. If your gunboat cannot take down a transport, then you need to learn to play the game.
As you wish to prove your uber skills, I shall correct you:
If you can't deal with them, then trade somewhere else. Like, oh, Rheinland. Or Bretonia.
Last Time I checked, New Berlin is in Rheinland. LOLPIRATES, and LOLwutters, as I have stated before, will always be around.
The point of this thread was, The wilde are overpowered. It was an observation. I got that the Nomads got better, because everyone was nomad harvesting. I get that rogues/pirates get gunboat patrols. I get BHG getting dessie patrols, I even get the Cap ship patrols in House systems. The point I was making, was, again, that cd spamming npcs, in packs of 12, who spawn all around you, as you try to thrust away, or redock with a Jumphole is ridiculous.
