Lane Piracy

[Thargoid]

And I believe the action should be one sided, when I'm flying a military vessel specifically designed to take out larger targets, and they're flying a transport vessel, designed to haul cargo, not fight back, that's what escorts are for.

Now a transport ship designed to smuggle, and fight back when cornered, outclasses a bomber for solo piracy. Senseless...

[Jack_Henderson]

The problem is a Pirate Transport can take out a 5K within 30 seconds (sometimes less), yet a bomber takes a lot longer than that, you can just tank the damage in a battle transport, as you know you're guaranteed to win because you have more power output, and more hit points, point and shoot, no skill is required what so ever.

What is wrong about it? A PTrans is a dangerous enemy. Has always been.

The bomber kills incredibly effectively if you equip a Nova. Especially Btrans are ridiculously easy to take out with it as they cannot dodge them and lack CMs. Thruster falls off... guns fall off... and you never even enter range. If you do not have a snub to CD some of the Novas...

But: You might not hit small transports with Novas.
OMG... no jack of all trades any more!
Or: Get a heavy bomber, deal heavy damage. And be shot easily by scouts/escorts.

Gameplaywise, it is win-win. Tenser, more interesting interaction for transports, scouts, pirate.

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[Thargoid]

The problem is, it's too OP, traders have no chance against a PTrans, they have more of a chance escaping from a bomber.

Anyway, I'm off to pop a pirate ID on a Junker PTrans I never use...

[Jack_Henderson]

I'll test my Btrans against a Ptrans. I do not think it is that uneven. Is it? I'll check.

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[Thargoid]

Dunno, but who trades in a Btrans nowdays? I hardly ever see em.

[Zayne Carrick]

Unfortunately, many people here're right. Pirate factions are turning into direct opposite to lawful ones. Speaking for hessians, we're pirating only occasionaly. Even more interesting, trading factions with new IDs turning into yet another lawfuls. Daumanns sometimes pose bigger threat than RMs.
PvP, PvP everywhere!

[Trogdor]

Short version:
> find a partner to pirate with: space is dangerous

A trader can make money alone, why can't I pirate alone?

You can, they're called npcs. I am making FAT STACKS OF CASH on my salvager. Way more money per time than I could ever make hauling ore.

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[Thargoid]

Me too!

[SnakThree]

I'll test my Btrans against a Ptrans. I do not think it is that uneven. Is it? I'll check.

CAU7 PTrans with 2Pulse/Charons vs CAU8 Bison with Liberty Turrets.

PTrans was left with 350 Nanobots while Bison was at 1% hull.

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[evanz]

hopefully when a couple plug ins are finished Battleship Scanners will be impossible to use on ships other than Battleships, so that should rule that out.

wooo hang on a second, are you saying that when a plugin or something thats being worked on, that any ships other than battleships, wont be able to use or if they already have them they will dissapear?