Pirating, amount of money

[Stucuk]

Third off, What would a pirate do with most of the commodities that are in Freelancer? What would I, as a Farmer's Alliance Pilot, do with Diamonds and Niobium? I'm trying to stop the flow of those things into Kusari, not sell it myself! What would me, as an LWB, need Engine Components or Beryllium for? We don't have a shipyard, so why would I need it? Who caries food, water, oxygen, or light arms around for no reason? No one, that's who, and I don't need or want the stuff they do carry around, so I'll go ahead and either take money, or blow your stuff up. If I took it, then Id have to sell it, and I'd much rather just take your money than take something I'd have to sell.

But you won't be stopping goods getting into Kurari if you are extorting the pirates(Farmers are ment to stop forren traders not extort them). Pirates steal goods to eather use or sell or because there a rival on there patch which they are trying to "defend". Pirates don't Extort drivers.

Fourth off, five seconds for your shield? Are you mistaking fighters for bombers or something? In a fighter it takes more than 35 seconds to destroy an advanced transports shields even with shield busters. Bombers are a different story. Bombers can easily destroy almost any transport without amazing piloting skills or connection. A fighter, though, doesn't have the luxury of a torpedo or mini razor, so they have to duke it out with nasty transport turrets. Also, try turret mode again. Fighters and bombers can outmaneuver you easily, but they can't outmaneuver an enemy that isn't moving or is moving in a straight line that can shoot in any direction.

TBH i don't care if there in a bomber or a fighter, both can get shields down easily if they hit the target. Turret mode is less accurate then normal mode, when ur in it gives a trader NO Manoverability, so there is no chance to dodge any shots, fighters on the other hand can easily dodge shots, one thing to remember is that transport guns don't fire fast, so a fighter can easily dodge them if he actualy uses the Horizontal and Vertical thrusters.

Fifth off, if your trader gets destroyed, he should really either die or be seriously injured. Same thing goes for a pirate, except for the fact that he has an escape pod, which a trader would be lacking since he would sit in the Bridge of his transport, seeing as how the ships are so big that they'd need to be piloted by at least 2 people. Pirates have the luxury of escape pods because they have small classes of ships, traders don't because they have large ships that can't eject an entire Bridge. Thusly, if your trader gets destroyed, he's probably dead or seriously hurt in RP, and a new character would be in order.

Guess you have never watched any Sci-Fi. People don't go, oh look my ship is getting blown to bits, ill just stay here. Insted they run to the escape pods when the ship is extremely damaged.

Sixth off, the money system of freelancer is obviously inflated. Never would a bandit in real life ask for two million US dollars from a simple trucker. This is a different money system. If it were US dollars as the currency, then two million would be outrageous, but since it's fake "credits," it's completely reasonable because a trader makes over that in a single run.

Never would a "Bandit" extort a trader and let him go on his merry way, especialy a Farmer, whos goal is to STOP forren traders on there patch, not tax them. If you can find instances in real life where lorry drivers have been extorted for about half the sale price of goods there carrying and then let go on there merry way then ill stop saying its OORP.

Seventh off, Pirating is more time consuming and unreliable as a money source than trading. When you trade, you know you make so much money in each leg of a run, but when pirating, you have no clue if someone will pay or whether or not someone is even there to pirate. Trading you always make money. Pirating you always make enemies.

Since groups like the LSF etc just camp one system, as long as you stay out of the main "home" systems you don't rearly have any risk.

Eighth off, we do have a right to ask for someone's money or their life. It's called mugging. Think of a lone fighter as mugging you rather than pirating you. Pirating would be something a pirate transport does.

You don't seem to understand. Mugging happens when your a person on the street who is only carrying a wallet. Mugging would only be compairable in FL if its a Fighter mugging a Fighter. You don't mug a lorry driver who is carrying 50 grands worth of PC's in the back and leave them there. Your argument is extremely flawd.


For the 50th time, crooks rob transports cargo, they don't extort the drivers for half the sale price of the goods and then let them go because the transport driver WOULD NEVER HAVE THAT MUCH MONEY ON THEM. What is so hard to understand. Boy people need to learn what RP is.

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