NCP's disrupting trade lanes

[Ceoran]

If NPCs would have the ability to actually hurt traders this would render certain, if not all supertransports useless considering their ridiculously low amount of defenses. And then there are transports with full pulse loadouts. Forcing them to kill NPCs would make the game a nightmare for them.
Also, the amount of them disrupting your lanes during low server load can indeed reach values of more than once per lane you are passing, yet I've never encountered more than 2 different player controlled pirates (or groups of those) on a single trip, not even when going into Liberty.
Now, if you are running from some pirate and manage to dock a tradelane before he can disrupt it the NPCs can pretty much screw off the trader afterwards if they disrupt the lane. Simply because your cruise engine will charge way slower than his.

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