NPC Balance

[looter]

:rolleyes:to the post above: one NPC is not same as the other. Which kind was it?
But your point about the long missions & crashes is good.

Now... about the Freelancers.
Most of the lawful players don't and won't care about this, since the only way you get the Freelancers hostile (except shooting them) is blowing up the Bounty Hunters Guild targets. For you, it's just nice and fun to see them being around. But for any at least a bit unlawful, i.e. Junker player, they are VERY annoying. They frequently show up near Beaumont in Texas, spoiling any black market business most of the time. They have an UBER armor multiplier. Just because the FL Pilot is worth 15000 credits? Sorry, but that's silly. I won't occasionally kill a Freelancer just because of the money. They're even harder to kill than players. I'm flying a Stiletto myself. The only way to get rid of a freelancer encounter is to bomb him with several torpedoes to shoot his weapons off.

I absolutely don't understand the reason for a NPC Freelancer faction being in there.
Aren't they independent and work for themselves to such level that they don't behave as a faction?
Aren't there also Freelancers that work for unlawful factions preferably?
Moreover: Check the game title - the players are meant to be freelancers.

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