Rule 6.7

[Zelot]

I agree, but the problem here is that the spirit of the rule is to protect traders from being pirated by cruisers/battleships, but pirates are essentially abusing that protection to do whatever they want right in front of capships that are helpless to do anything about the piracy happening right in front of them.

I don't think the spirit of this rule is focused on one side or the other of the lawful divide, I think the spirit of the rule is about the balance of ships in the game. If a change in these rules were to be discussed, I would ask that any change be put off till 4.86 when there could be a rebalanced of weapons that would allow transports a chance against a cap. Although this is a very big amount of work to do, and I wouldn't want to put off the development schedule of 4.86 for this, when we can just as easily go with the rules we have in place, which has the downside of being a rule, which will always chafe from time to time, but has the upside of requiring absolutely no development time to implement. As it stands, weapons and ships are balanced in the game currently with this rule in mind.

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