NPC Cargo Loot buff? Plox?

[Thunderer]

I like NPC piracy because it brings me a medium amount of cash quickly, which I need to repair my battleships or change their armament.
I found it slower than mining when I needed to make a Mako, though. NPCs appear frequently enough only when the player count is below 60, and that's mostly before noon here. Except if something has changed, but I haven't played for just 2 weeks.

So, good if you need cash quickly, but not so when you need to grind for something expensive. I say let it stay as it is.

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[nOmnomnOm]

A miner usually has a PoB in the mine field.

Go blow it up.

lmfao

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[Highland Laddie]

If that idea is too funny for you, try this....use a cloak to sneak up and shoot the PoB FIRST, thus raising the shield and preventing the miner from docking...and then go after the miner.

Then you know what you do? You harass the base. Keep shooting it to keep the shields up (not even using a base siege, yet) and eventually you'll bring about more folks to either supply or defend the base...and then you have pews.
Taa daa!

[nOmnomnOm]

If that idea is too funny for you, try this....use a cloak to sneak up and shoot the PoB FIRST....

Against the rules though.

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[Highland Laddie]

Is not. Shooting a base to make its shields go up and prevent a ship from docking is not the equivalent as a siege that requires prior RP.

[Sath]

You forgot "then die before pirating, to the base weapon platforms autoaim cerberus and primaries along with a crapton of razors/pulses"

[Highland Laddie]

You forgot "then die before pirating, to the base weapon platforms autoaim cerberus and primaries along with a crapton of razors/pulses"

Not necessarily. If you're in a bomber, you can evade platform fire fairly easily, not to mention you could fire a Nova at a base from like 2k away and be out of platform range before the nova even hits.

And even if you took a little damage in something bigger...the idea is to attack/pirate a miner...so it's highly unlikely they're going to kill your GB or bigger with a Hegemon.

[nOmnomnOm]

Is not. Shooting a base to make its shields go up and prevent a ship from docking is not the equivalent as a siege that requires prior RP.

Shooting a base is shooting a base.

If what your saying is true then i can just go around and shoot all the bases once and let the fuel slowely drop.
Its still considered I believe to be against the rules unless you have the RP TO shoot it.

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[Sath]

GB would be roasted to death if the miner is just hugging the PoB, and again, I have seen a LOT of experienced PvP'ers going dry trying to evade the PoB platforms from close range. Usually, mounting novas means, no SNAC for majority of the bombers (Need a CD to pirate tbt). So, most of the pirates usually roll with a SNAC, because no ammo limit. Which in turn means, getting close to the miner who will, again, hug the platforms/PoB. Worse than fighting NPC base huggers.

[Highland Laddie]

Sieging a base = / = shooting a base. There is a difference.

Shooting a base to raise the shields and prevent a ship from docking is legal, it's been done many times and never reported that I've seen.

Now, if you kept shooting a shield repeatedly over a long course of time to wear it down, it probably WOULD fall into definition of a siege and would then require some prior RP before continuing.