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[Eppy]

OKAY. Now you are ticking me off. Trains don't need to be better, Pirates need to be worse. Heck, I don't care about the shield increase, take it away! It doesn't matter a damn bit in the long run because you can't get away from the pirates! And please stop trying to compare the game to Real Life; This is a digital universe, a space simulator with three dimensions, where physics is a joke. You can't use real life as a direct comparison, because you don't even use missiles to kill in this game, missiles are a joke here. You use GUNS. If this were RL, anybody could fly because the computer would do it all for you; you can just turn around and go home once the missile is gone.

That's as wrong as it will ever be. Traders are meant to get pirated. No need to reduce anything. CD's are ok, Gunboats are ok too (and the cerberus turret needs a slight energy increase). As Exile said, get 2 escorts if you want to elude capture. In older times, the merchant ships were stripped of all goods... here the pirates are merciful and don't ask all your cash/cargo...:)

However, the point is: All is ok, no need to nerf something just because some guys can't avoid being pirated. Many ppl tried to pirate me, and failed. And I use all kind of tricks:)

Traders are meant to get pirated, but not every single time they run across some idiot with a Gunboat. I can avoid being pirated,
I was good at it before we got superluminal cruise disruptors. Give us in freigthers a chance. If I get hit every time I get pirated, you know what I'm gonna do? Start pirating. So will everybody else. Soon there won't be any Trains left to pirate, and we'll all turn to pirate-cannibalism.

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Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen

Which Dreadnought was that?

One of your nine.