Vagrant Raiders (VR-)

[Thexare]

-- Can attack any ship that is hostile to them within the guidelines of the rules.

I think that still can be a problem for certain players. Maybe you can explicitly write down who your enemies are to avoid confusion.

-- Can attack Gallic and Rheinland law enforcement and corporations, aswell as Corsairs and Mollies within the guidelines of the rules.

Otherwise, this could be huge potential for terrorist ID, as you could simply expand your hostile list at a later point in the future for more targets to destroy, couldn't you?

We could do that, but that kind of metagamey exploitation would be valid grounds for warnings and potential loss of official status.

Also it'd be a real dick move.

Unless I missed something and you can buy Rheinland civilian equipment at unlawful stations, that wouldn't make sense at all.

In-RP you should be able to, and I think 4.87 is going to correct that as well. Civilian sympathizers, theft of shipments, etc. Plenty of possible explanations - the same ones any other pirate group has (go reread the tech charts, re: LR, Hackers, Mollys, etc.) While we're not local, we're operating locally and we can probably get them from the Hessians; they wouldn't share their own ships and guns, but sharing stuff they can get on the open market (at a markup, almost certainly) doesn't seem that odd as long as our goals align. If only temporarily.

You were talking about the Tiger Shark earlier (thus the yellow cell on Rheinland civilian), how do you intend to get it from Planet Holstein?

In-RP, is it only available there? Mechanics and RP don't perfectly align. Never have. Never will as long as there's no way around the three-ships-per-base limitation.

P.S: We have enough capspam in Rheinland already from both sides, my Wraith catches dust. I hope you rarely use that rheinland pirate cruiser if you happen to use it at all.

We have no plans to use caps for anything other than RP events, defense of our territory, and (in the case of the Metropolis) as a carrier when the RP warrants it. In fact, we don't even have any GBs in our current Rheinland operations, just snubs and a transport.

They're impractical for piracy both due to the difficulty of escaping into asteroids and concerns of supply; yes, the Hessians are currently letting us use two of their bases, and of course the Junkers don't really give a damn, but there's a difference between maintaining a fighter and resupplying a cruiser.