Lawful Pirating

[MrCynical]

Personally, I think it is unfair that Cruisers and Battleships can scan for cargo and destroy a smuggler. It's also quite OORP, when you think about it. If pirate capitals cannot pirate, for reasons of "waste of resources" and "unfairness", why doesn't it apply for lawful capitals? Honestly, why would the Navy waste their resources and credits by commissioning massive capital ships just to scan cargo? Fighters can do the same job, and probably just as effective. The capital ships that I see scanning for smugglers maybe just want a quick and easy kill with big turrets...

As far as resources go, the point about pirates is that the pirate factions such as the Corsairs don't have the same level of resources as the house militaries. See for example OPG's post about capital ship registration - they have to steal all their H-Fuel and MOX from convoys.

Also, real-life naval forces use heavy warships to interdict smugglers all the time - google prince william carribean if you don't believe me. Avoiding house military patrols is part of the skill of being a smuggler - the reason for the rule about pirates in capital ships is so that you don't have a cruiser or battleship taking on a Mammoth (for example) - in fact personally I'd restrict pirates to snub vessels, a gunboat with inferno cannons is always going to beat a transport.

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No longer active online due to a dwindling amount of non-PvP (trading, pirating, mining, etc.) fun in the new version.