a No-Tag indie generic Pirate

[Primus Avatar]

is it allowed? If a pirate ship character doesn't belong to a faction.

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wassup

[BaconSoda]

Of course it is allowed. That is what the generic Pirate ID is for...

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.

[sovereign]

I don't see why not. To me that says "person who uses piracy as their source of income". What ship you choose will say something about you though- if you use anything other than the generic pirate line (Liberty Rogue and Molly ships- note, Rogue Gunboat is actually marked 'Rogue' and does not get this exemption) or civilian line then your ship will say something about your friends. You can't simply waltz off with a 'sair ship or LR GB (much less an LH GS), the Corsairs are particularly stingy with their ships (or are supposed to be anyway) and nobody just hands out GBs, while you can feasibly buy them from pirate groups they have to know you pretty well, enough to know that you won't use it against them... and operating in Liberty with an LR GB and not being LR means you are competition, and a wee bit harder to work. Still doable certainly, but it will take more than five seconds of thinking to come up with a ruse for it.

Borderworlds line is another option, but keep in mind that Corsairs tend to view anyone in a Sabre as a friend of the Outcasts.

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[Boss]

<strike>Most</strike> SOME (myself included here, nothing personal mind you) folks don't like them though, because they sometimes open fire without warning (and they appear neutral to boot)

Just throwing that out there.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[Primus Avatar]

<strike>Most</strike> SOME (myself included here, nothing personal mind you) folks don't like them though, because they sometimes open fire without warning (and they appear neutral to boot)

Just throwing that out there.

I would go as far and say: that's the point! If he's an indie he may have no support from factioned pirates. So the lack of suspicion (aka appearing neutral) would be the only bonus.

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wassup

[Reverend Del]

Yeah indy pirate on LR turf had better learn to share. We don't like competition.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.

[Boss]

Understandable...But when your bomber gets shot to bits from behind by an untagged Rogue GB sporting full missile turrets...You get a bit antagonistic to the idea.

As I said, it's nothing against you, it's just that I'd rather folks use a tag also.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[sovereign]

And this, children, is why you buy an Advanced Cargo Scanner and make sure that no one gets closer than 3.8k without you knowing their ID and loadout (ship and tag you should know from 9.8k).

Full missile GB + generic ID = run

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[Tenacity]

I would suggest using civilian ships if you're going to be a non-affiliated pirate. You should probably also use freeports as your base of operations - but never pirate ships within 10k~ of a freeport, move out to a distance when taxing traders.

Civilian bomber or Eagle would be good for this, and you could either tax traders moving between liberty and bretonia (within magellan or cortez) or between liberty/kusari (kepler/galileo systems), or between liberty/rheinland (hudson/bering systems).

All three of those areas have freeports and are outside of house control.

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[Dra1003]

You know whats better? seeing generic pirate IDs in nomad Light fighters .,.best thing my order char ever saw

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Ive had enough of disco for now. I might be back at the next mod release.

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