Make trade routes go in loops around Sirius

[Carlos_Benitez]

I'm honoured that this topic has been made over an idea put forward by little old me. Increasing the profit margin for loop trade runs could help things.

However, I cant disagree more strongly with things said by Spoiled. Pirating trains is not practical in a fighter. They do not have the fire-power to intimidate, or if necessary destroy cargo trains singlehandedly. Trains escape while you are typing demands, or desperately trying to scratch their hulls even slightly. The only way this works is in large packs... and if a trader sees a large pack of pirates in the system he's about to jump into, he'll choose another path.
Limiting taxes at 1 mill is also a ridiculous idea whichever way you spin it. You have to work damn hard to get money out of a trader through taxing, and should expect a decent reward from it. 2 or 3 million credits tax is still less than 40 percent of a Large Train's normal profit per cargo-load. This is "pay or die", not the M6 Toll-road. If I'm trading along, making 10 mill every 10 minutes, I'm not going to give a damn weather a pirate takes 1 mill off me and then leaves me alone for the rest of the day. The point of a high tariff is to put traders in a position where they REALLY don't want to be pirated. That way, they might put up a fight, or a really good chase, rather than sitting there limply and handing over a couple of pennies to the local beggar.
Traders already have an advantage...half of the time, Cruise Disruptors don't track, and at any time they like, a trader can speed-dock to safety.
Lets also not forget that the majority of these binge-traders do so purely so that they can get their big Battleship and go cruising around the server pretending they own the place, with little to no RP whatsoever; an issue that is often raised and moaned about.
I personally don't think it should be harder to make money...BUT I do not think we, as pirates, should ever feel responsible for making traders lives easier by reducing taxes to small-change, and by using ships that don't have a hope of being perceived as a threat. You make everyone's game better by allowing everyone to make HIGH PROFIT at HIGH RISK. Capitalism at it's best.

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