Quote:Now. Insert most transport captain’s pvp skill level or desire to learn pvp. They really are the bottom of the pile, no desire to shoot people kinda players. You are now pitting them up against situations they’ll neither know how to deal with, nor actually want to deal with. The protection they had was that they could pay pirates. Now the pirates don’t even have to demand anything.
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The Devs have made the decision to make certain 'trade' ships capable of, supposedly, fending off ships that are designated 'fighting' ships. I have never seen the need for trade ships to have the big guns.
Now you have decided that any ship of 3600 hold and below can now be treated as 'combat' ships. Really???
I advocated, a while ago, that trade ships could lose their PvP protection upon docking, ie they would be counted as PvP dead, like any other ship.
Most traders aren't interested in PvP and those that are, are usually making credits to get their 'PvP' ships. Why did you have to 'blur' the lines and make trade ships PvP capable? Was it because not enough ships were getting 'blued' for your amusement?
Now my main worry, as it always has been, is the newer Players. Spookily enough, they start off with ships with less than 3600 hold and generally have little to no PvP skills. You have now signalled an 'open season' on them. Are they going to hang around when they are regularly 'blued' because they are flying a ship that is deemed a combat ship?
And yet, you have mentioned that you don't want this Server to become a purely PvP Server. Maybe remove those rose tinted glasses and 'see' that this is where it is actually heading.
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