Too much NPCs

[Grumblesaur]

Because it takes out immersion if a pirate can just walk up with his loaded cruiser to the most guarded place in the House and start shooting without any consequence. It's the equivalent of me driving a tank into the White House and demanding to "duel" the President. Same thing for Navy to walk into a pirate stronghold.

Frame challenge:

1. What about immersion is intrinsically valuable? Or reprhased, why is it so necessary for a game to engulf the player?
2. Immersion is not the same as realism. You can be immersed in (that is, wholly preoccupied and engaged with) a game without that game being realistic. People get immersed in Tetris. People could be immersed in Disco if a pirate cruiser wandered up to you and picked a fight in Manhattan orbit. The resulting fight would probably be very preoccupying and engaging. It just wouldn't be realistic.
3. Like @Archaetherial, you are simplifying my argument to make it easier to attack. I'm not talking about pirates and smugglers taking over the game and removing all threatening NPCs, but the fact that you think any adjustment to the balance of power in favor of unlawfuls at all is indicative of the exact cancerous mindset of "lawfuls should be easy to play and pirates should be hard to play" that has gotten us to where we are in the first place.

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