The completely incompetent, inept, and totally clueless transportation wing of the Bounty Hunter Guild today made an epic - or completely nauseating, depending upon your perspective - run all the way from Dabadoru Station to New Tokyo, and then from New Tokyo to Cold Bay.
No cap ship pirates found, and the only ones we did encounter probably - nay, almost certainly - died from laughing at how pathetic we were. (Note that this does NOT include the Corsair encounter in Leeds - you Benitez boys done good. And we still sucked.)
Seriously - we had a scout. We paid attention to the scout. We still could not prevent the pirates from coming up to us. One minor detail, though - 2 BWT's and 2 Shires provided enough firepower that it wasn't us that died. Although I'm not sure how the hell we didn't ... God, we suck.
So anyway, my point is - just because pirates have the ability to USE cap ships now - in all the encounters we had today, NONE of them did. (Thank God - although I halfway think we'd have done better against them than we did against the fighters and bombers...) The pirates that like LF's and bombers are going to continue using them, is what I mean.
The change is still young, give it a few days before you make claims and conduct tests like that.