Generic pirates vs escorts

[Dusty Lens]

Doubtful as missiles don't track very well.

I posted a nice escort guide somewhere. It's pretty good. Suggest you look for it.

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=52394

There we go

[beunt]

Definitely escorts worth the money. I like to hire new players in small ships, since scouting is the only thing they can do (besides missions). This way they can explore Sirius a bit, learn interesting trade loops, earn good money and of course learn the escort business. This also let us time to RP and doing so I tell them Sirius lore and rules. Eventually if things go well, I even add some to my regular escort list. Raising one's personal army is part of the fun:D

Most pirates out there simply state there demand and immediately start shooting at the trader.

I see many people say so but I don't agree. From my personal experience many pirates have poor RP, some lower your shield preemptively, but I met a douche only once. Plus, there is a fair amount of RP pirates as well.

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[Exsiled_one]

Barghest cost - 2mil
Adv deb turrets + guns = 4mil
CD - 300k
Scanner - 300k
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8.6mil - scout. give him all ore he can carry [500x16k = 8mil]
Paid out in one scouting.

Dance around the table for victory.



@pirates shooting right after demand - thats me.
- my demand is that he cooperates, cuts the system wide chat and turns off his shield or i'll do it for him.
Then again, I'm a ptrans and even with that it takes me 2 minutes to take you down if you resist.

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[jammi]

Get a Shire. I tried one in OpenSP, and actually went to the nearest Battleship seller to get it licensed. It can take down Bungoats faster than I can take down a mince pie.

Try me. I've taken down Montezuma's Shire in my Waran on my own, without touching my nanobots (and only using my shield bats once). I've always wanted to take on another Shire to see if that was a fluke, or if I can actually replicate that.

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[mjolnir]

I have a barghest. You have an adv train and 5 escorts.

Ill make sure your ship dies faster than the escorts kill me.

It's not hard to do, see the "VHFs cant Kill Bombers fast enough" thread

If at least 2 of the escorts have 2 debs, you will never be able to fire SN or NOva, and only get some shots from the guns.

It's not hard to do, just takes some different thinking than "must kill him now".

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[Bolverk]

Barghest cost - 2mil
Adv deb turrets + guns = 4mil
CD - 300k
Scanner - 300k
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8.6mil - scout. give him all ore he can carry [500x16k = 8mil]
Paid out in one scouting.

Barghest is a bomber.
Probably you meant some freighter.

[Exsiled_one]

Yeah, small ptransy

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