Cargo piracy

[Lemon]

Also, I want to stress - it's in traders' interest that Frigates are used instead of bombers - they are slower, and have less firepower - it's both easier to avoid them if you get good reaction time (without metagaming player list) as you cruise at the same speed and to hire actual escorts. A battletransport can put up a good fight while flying to a base too.

For pirates they have the great versatility of being able to both take and give (see example in the above post) cargo. People are just lazy to use them as they are less convenient than bombers + monetary demands- I think FLG are the only faction exclusively flying frigates when going after traders (hi GMS ) - it's not as bad as you make it sound.