Just some few questions? Since when its permited to pirate with ships above GBs and what was the motive to allow it?
I remenber a time when the limit was GBs and now i see Cruisers and BSs pirating. If there are complaints about "above the lane traders", "jump traders", etc, have anyone thought that this happens because anyone can pirate in those ships? "Hey i m a poor pirate, 10 mill or die" Common people, since when?
G.
Since about 2 years ago, check the news and announcements.
The motive is 1: It makes no sense that a cap would let an enemy transport past freely. Wether it was a lawful cap and a smuggler, or an unlawful cap and a trader.
And 2: I believe it was to do with the other rule change preventing dead transports from returning to the system I.E: Base sieges. As itd be ridiculous to have transports hanging around a besieged base waiting to resupply it while the caps besieging it can do nothing to stop them.
Basically it only doesn't make sense because people have gotten used to it, nowhere in freelancer lore does it say caps dont shoot transports, quite the opposite. In the storyline Battleships were used in mission 2 to try to catch a smuggling convoy at the Jumpgates.
As for Jump traders ect: I think they'd do this anyway, for one thing as others have said, caps arn't even particularly good at pirating now, as BSs have no CDs, and cruisers are slower than transports.
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