I have myself never played with pirate id, but I know how good the transports are and how close range the bases to dock usually are. The most far is usual 15 to 20k, if you have a ship with a capital armour it is almost impossible for a pirate to destroy you. I myself if i get pirated try to get someone to help me and destroy the pirate. I think a lot more people do the same. This making it for a pirate hard to do a successfully piracy. But on the other point of view, we lawful can treat them as targets because house laws. Is this not a point of abuse too? I myself would like to see more pirates around, maybe a change of behaviour from the side of the traders would be better too. If we stop trying to get forces to gank the pirates they will give us more time to interact. I can imagine they behave more like terrorists, because they fear the longer time that passes the more forces might be incoming to disrupt their attempt. The 2 millions or die, is a reflection of our own behaviour on transports. Pirates should be quick and make themselves into safety. Something I never complained about.
