Attacking Traders

[marauder]

Yes pirates stole entire ships when they could (usually killing most of the crew and passengers while they were at it) but BS's are still execessive. It can't catch traders at all unless they stop, I know because I've tried it.

Plus if you start out as a Pirate then why have you gotten / are using a HOUSE cap-ship.

The only ways I can think of getting a house cap-ship when you started out as a pirate is either stealing it out of the shipyard before it's first flight.

Which wouldn't happen as it'll be heavily guarded and you'd need an army of helpers in the shipyard itself which also wouldn't happen as the security checks would be too tight for more then five or six people to slip through, not several thousand.

Or stealing the plans and / or the materials and building it yourself.

Which is possible, but you'd need a shipyard and several years to build it. Currently the only shipyard in the border / edge worlds is tripoli.

If you DON'T start out as a pirate then the captain going rogue and taking off with his ship would be best.

This is more likely but you'd still need the support of most of the officers at least and it'd be best to have most of the crew with you too (its hard to tell several hundred angry crewers what to do when they're trying to kill you).

They are the ONLY RP reasons I can think of at the moment, you'd need to write up an RP piece explaining how you got the ship too in order for it to be RP.

Currently it seems that the faction relations is pointless as few, if any, players are actually doing it.

This is suppose to be an RP server, yet very few people seem to be bothering with the RP at all.