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(06-11-2016, 12:40 AM)Croft Wrote: Your asking traders to work with escorts but allowing solo pirates free reign? That is the height of hypocricy. Balance is a level playing field, not horribly slanted one way or the other.
The solo trader is making money. The solo pirate that is incapable of killing solo traders is not.
Piracy - trader interaction is trader biased by definition as the trader is the "party" that is continuously making money, while the pirate depends on traders' activity to make any money at all, and they'll almost always make a dozen times less money/hour than a trader does.
If you want escorting to not be a complete waste of time, you need two things: traders need to be unsafe without escorts (meaning piracy needs to be relatively easy), and escorts need to actually be able to protect their trader from enemies.
