This is Exactly what I mean.

[sovereign]

Well, the ID is more like dog than boba, boba is more a merc ID.

One problem is that all those BH BC's were bought with traders, those traders have a list of the pirates that pirated them when they were in a transport and the pirate was in a bomber or GB, so from that perspective there is not much difference between going after a trader with a GB or going after a GB with a BC.

I don't think any BHG will work to help this either, why would an indie give up his BC for a fighter to join a faction, when there really would be no benefits?

And especially when these BH BC's are flying them because they were pvp whored out of flying for the outcasts or other clans?

There is a very good reason for people to give up the Battlecruisers. I was with a group of RHA pirating in Sigma-13 and New Berlin awhile back, and after awhile we got the inevitable tide of BHG BCs.

They died. All of them. No hope, we rarely lost shields. Our fighters and bombers tore them apart.

Then, a pair of BHG bombers came up. We were hard pressed to not die for a solid twenty minutes, until I landed a lucky supernova and killed one of them.

So, against three battlecruisers, a battleship, and a pair of gunboats coming at us all at once, we didn't lose shields, yet against a pair of bombers we could have lost quite easily.

Now imagine if the capital ship fleet would have been flying all fighters and bombers- what would have happened? We would have fought and easily lost, as opposed to massacre them.

Most pirates fly VHFs and bombers (GBs too, though not as often), not large capital ships. For one thing, you cannot pirate in large ships. Also, a pair of bombers is far more effective at killing anything than that same pair of battlecruisers- and I've never seen a BHG have problems getting a crew together.

To top it off, if the players of the battlecruisers in question have respect for the pirates they fight, they will sooner or later realize that the pirates don't like fighting large ships, even if its a guaranteed win. In the example I gave, the bomber fight was far more fun and exhilarating than the massacre we inflicted upon the capital ships. So, not only do the BHG gain a better chance of winning, but they are also more sportsmanlike. Good on all sides, if they take the time to realize this.

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