Behemoth,Sep 6 2006, 11:21 PM Wrote:If that train idea is crazy.
I have a hard time already passing though Omega 41 because of that bloody Neutron star.
If you want to RP pirating, tell me so I can go buy a normal freighter and RP too.
If you pull that crap on player's trains, people are never going to step out their Battleships.
Oh, and what about taking as much cargo as the NPC's?
I bet that would make some people go for rp much more than doing those hidden LT rounds...
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If it had done more damage I wouldn't have suggested it.
Why should you be able to carry as much cargo as the NPCs?
Players never hand over anything to pirates now, giving them a hold of 800,000 will just mean they make more money quicker and make them even less inclined to hand over cargo or money.
You can make money quicker with a train then you ever will with a BS.
I've got 2 characters who can pirate and I don't think it's actually worth the effort.
You need at least 2 other people to help drop the shield on a train quick enough to do alot of hull damage before it cruises away, you need to have at least one of those people with a train cruiser disrupter and the other two need to each have an inferno.
If we change the trains so that they can still make money without being able to ignore disrupters and pirates more people will fly in convoys and hire/use escorts.
More traders will have to find/use alternate routes if they see a pirate in a system they usually use.
Then again they might just solve the problem by F1ing and either logging off or switching character until the pirate gets bored and switches character or logs off too.
As it is once you've gotten a train you can ignore everyone and anyone who tries to stop or pirate you.
