Admin Notice: Changes to server rule 4.1 and 4.3

[Karst]

EDIT: Much appreciated change for the traders though. Atleast all those silent traders get punished for 2 hours now when they manage to still dock.

I'd say the opposite is true. 90% of the silent norp traders have no armor, no bb, no weapons, or any combination thereof and will never make it to the next base anyway, unless you're pirating in a totally unsuitable location or ship.

Who this actually punishes is traders that outfit their ships well and fight hard to reach the next base, which happen to be the same ones that usually do roleplay with pirates.

I think you people are failing to realize the implications of this.
Previously, to actually kill a trader a pirate was required to choose a location and ship that's suitable, and most importantly, actually fight the trader. Now you could just make a LF pirate, pirate a trader, drop their shields below half so that they're in pvp, and then simply follow them around at a safe distance until eventually they dock, and boom, pvp dead.
Doesn't matter if it's a CauVIII battletransport with flaks and all, that equipment is useless if the pirate doesn't even have to damage you to kill you. Or like I mentioned before, take a high damage ship like a Hellfire bomber or a cruiser that'll force transports to dock pretty quickly and just trollpirate traders directly outside lawful stations.

This is a green light for griefing, non-serious troll piracy.

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