' Wrote:Allowing cruiser piracy makes the risk to the pirate essentially zero. Aren't there supposed to be no "zero-risk" activities for solo players in this game? Certainly, trading isn't zero-risk...why is piracy now allowed to be zero risk?
That very much depends on where you are pirating... I know I love shooting at big ships, because I can actually hit them, and I think a lot of players feel like that. The moment a dessie logs in Liberty and starts pirating, it is only a matter of minutes before it is destroyed. When a single MNS-tagged ship ventures into Tau-23 to tax those fat miners, *| and/or |IMG logs and destroys the ship.
I tried cruiser pirating, and it is really not effective going at it alone. At all. You are a large sitting duck, whereas you can run and stay alive when you do normal bomber piracy.
So in my experience there is a lot more risk involved in venturing out to pirate in a cruiser, rather than just sticking to the good ol' bomber.