make piracy easier

[RSA Nico]

Something to note: the screenshot with the gunboats was taken in Cambridge, somewhere along the Battleship Norfolk-Omega-3 gate lane.
For reasons unknown, there are gunboat spawns along that entire lane, something not found anywhere else.

Now personally I think powerful NPCs should be extremely heavily reduced, with cruisers and up not found outside of New Hampshire-type battleground systems, but at the very least, that lane really should not have any. The route from NB to NL is already pretty low on viable pirate spots and high on sneaky alternatives, there's no reason for the O-3 gate to be unpiratable.

Also I agree with lanes being further away from gates, but that's a massive task. And of course jump gate weaponry should never have been added.

Ok i disagree with your first statement on the O3 gate. It is on the edge of bretonia space so it must be heavily gaurded asit is first line of defence for bretonia as there are many unlawfull eliments from that direction, Coalition, wild, nomads ext.

As for reducing military spawn. Do the math.... inRP house space is much larger in population than pirates and as this is the case they have the man power and resources can affoard large army's.

Lastly i agree with Malmsteen. Stop complaining about stupid things. The dev team has better rhings to attend to. And besides to be a pirate is a challenge and thats wat makes it fun.