Why are Corporations so unattractive / boring to play

[Karst]

Corporate piracy is tough, as you can go after more IDs with better ships on other IDs
And there's annoyances like e.g. Dublin where you used to be able to pirate being reclassified to House space so e.g. IMG can't even touch BMM taking gold from an IMG gold field.

People also get confused and don't get what's happening when you do corporate pirate a competitive miner etc- this is how rare it is and people don't like when corporations act like pirates when 97% of the time they don't, and tend to get confused+annoyed. Look at Taus where people seem to be oblivious they can freely cooperate between military and corporate IDs where Corporations target transports with piracy... This failed experiment proved how little people care about corporate piracy, I don't think it's worth investing much time globally. Let specific trading/mining OFs request added piracy lines and be open to them if they care but that's about it I think.

EDIT: Also

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We clearly need to do a lot more outreach lol. FLG and Maquis are Extremist Revolutionaires with newly gained military defected to them. I know when normal (read: non Gallia playing) people see us in their houses it's on convoys and propaganda freighters and could mistake us for a trading faction but damn - we need to raise more awareness.



EDIT2: also because of the allied defense line all corporations could literally join any fight anywhere as long as someone neutral+ groups with them regardless of Zoi. But besides Karst who keeps yeeting our [RM] and Kruger with GMG on his ALG and occasional Ageira combat in Liberty again nobody cares. The IDs are very strong, it's just that people generally don't join corporations to be combat oriented.

Yeah, I agree with almost all of that, at least the analytical part, maybe not the conclusions.

Corporate piracy and combat lines should be more generous so people actually use them and get comfortable with the idea that these factions can engage in gameplay other than just trading.
This is partially a player issue of people simply not doing something they already can, and partly a rules issue of somewhat more restrictive IDs and rules, such as the aforementioned Dublin having ceased to be a piracy zone.

But the economic problem also plays into this. If people were really motivated to log corporate ships in the Taus to do mining, maybe they could spark conflicts with competing corps, and they might at that point also realize that they can cooperate with military forces with the corporate ally line.
But they aren't, so they don't, and the Tau conflict -currently probably the most active conflict zone- remains the exclusive domain of military IDs.

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