A discussion has already been made about this subject. Allowing pirates to attack in Cruisers and Battleships would be suicidile. No, were not going to trade in Battleships. Why? Because it will bring in even more capital ships on to the sever which we don't want, thats one of the big reason that pirates only get up to gunboats.
Pirating is not hard at all, if you know what your doing it can be very easily. You don't need a battleship to do it.
I don't agree with the solution, but I do somewhat with the problem. I have never, not once, been attacked by a pirate while trading EXCEPT when I was specifically looking for trouble.
Of course, part of my problem may be that I avoid Cambridge-Corfu most of the time. It's profitable, but what's the fun in having only one route? Besides, there are a dozen other routes that work plenty well. But it seems stupid to me to have to stick to one specific route or actively hunt down pirates if I want some spice in my trading.
Allow pirating in Cruisers (no Battleships), but regulate the hell out of them.
If we make special requirements for cruisers-specifically, their RP has to be very, very good, and they can't pirate anything smaller than a Large Transport (Excepting Cruise Liners, Prison Liners and Luxury Liners), then we might have something workable.
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i think the solution would be just for pirates to be coordinated. if pirates sent in some fighters or a gb or two, then have a train waiting to pick up the loot after the fighters are done. highly profitable = more attacks = less mind numbing for traders.
The brotherhood works well at pirating, you no why? we do it groups most of the time, its called teamwork.
Plus theres no need for a pirate to have a cruiser, my lone gunboat can tax easy enough, if you carnt pirate in a gunboat your not doing it right.
The reason we only pirate the Cambridge > Theta route is because of our roleplay as Corsairs, these are the systems we have bases and a certain amount of control over, you don't see Corsairs NPC's pirating in other sectors.
' Wrote:i think the solution would be just for pirates to be coordinated. if pirates sent in some fighters or a gb or two, then have a train waiting to pick up the loot after the fighters are done. highly profitable = more attacks = less mind numbing for traders.
I rarely see any amount of cargo survive the explosion that would required even a freighter to pickup. That's why I always demand and when in groups demand an amount that is lower then what we think their value of cargo is. I'd rather they pay and I'm sure they would too instead of doing it all over again the trade route and lose money.
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