Something disturbing I have noticed during my pirate-trader interactions

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From one video made one and ahalf years ago? Well, I've marked people for dead for less than that, so that is understandable. Also, an odd choice, since that was one of the videos, during which my mic blorked and never did record any of my voice- the one you hear during the video is the guy I was flying with.

Silly excuses aside, if you think that is bad, I suggest you do not look at what Cloaks are about. Because that is something like the very essence of avoiding player interaction.

I just find this video very demonstrative of many things. There were many many more events that created my opinion. This video is rare example of being ass irp, being ass in pvp, being ass to matching official faction.

And yea, I do not like almost all uses of cloak indeed.

On topic, here is another take on trader problem: total majority of traders are new players, who powertrade their ass off and then will probably never go back to it. On the other hand, almost all pirates are more experienced players, who play pirate character mostly for fun, be it rp or blue.
And thats why treating those sides equally will only lead to whine from both sides.
I think there are at least two solutins: keeping sides highly unbalanced (lazy way), or changing nature of one side (getting rid of powertrade phenomen).
I have totally no idea how to do second, though.
SO, what I think should br tested on TEST SERVER (which we should have had for many years, going by nonexising logic):

1) all commodity prices at least doubled
2) small transports unchanged, or slightly increased cargo
3) big transports weapons removed, cruise speed nerf, perhaps cargo buff, armor buff
3.5) remove cruiser piracy for god's sake, making it balanced is like chiseling collosus to fit undergrond
4) Battle transports ???

BOTTOMLINE: if we dont try anything drastic, situation wont change
P.S: inb4 LAST NAIL

EDIT: I understand this suggestion is super full of holes and imbalances, and is frankly shit. At least its better than talking about same "bad pirates" and "bad traders" for 48652th time.

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When "roleplay" around you seems to be diminishing... all you can do is be a new beacon of roleplay to light up everyone else's interactions.