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[Drake]

f you want a trader which can avoid pirates, go fly something smaller. A whale or pirate trader for example.

I don't know about the Whale, but the Pirate Transport is one of the easiest transports to CD, even though it has a CM dropper. It's kinda short and stubby, with it's engines stuck off on the sides... An easy target. With a BW Transport I could sometimes manage to escape groups of NPCs when I spammed my Enh. CM... Impossible with the Pirate Transport.

I agree that some transports, maybe any with 3500 or less, should get their 200 thrust speed back. Of course, Igiss changed it because it didn't make sense that a big heavy transport could thrust that fast while gunboats, especially little gunboats, couldn't.

Also, the CD speed was increased a lot. There's room for it to be reduced somewhat without lowering it to the nearly useless speed that it was before. Maybe keep some CDs at a very high speed, while others (such as the Train CD) at somewhat lower speed (though not as low as it used to be).