pirate typical ships

[joojoo1975]

@ Baconsoda: Yes ... I'm well aware its not about money ... That's why I only ask for 500k while everyone else is demanding 15 mil. For me its about the role play as a pirate. Get tired of the traders that run silent while you spew pages of monologue. And I get annoyed with traders that dock on what should be hostile bases to their character. Like those Rheinland corporations docking at Naha for example. The most annoying one I've encountered continually ran silent about a dozen times on the Diamond/Niobium Run (using Chugoku as well). Since he never responded to my demands I took snapshots each time I made a demand (to defend myself if need be) and proceeded to destroy this trader each and every time he came through the NB jump hole. Musta destroyed the guy a dozen or so times and he just kept going without saying a word. He eventually logged out. But alas ... we gotta deal with people complaining about pirates over and over again. And everyone seems to think its A-OK for bounty hunters and others to cap-kill us pirates in mass.

So ... we get complaints about pirates in gunboats and bombers and yet praises for bounty hunters killing pirates in battle cruisers, bombers and such. I just don't get it. Role play anyone?

i agree with you mate. to me PvP is not killing a noob in a noob ship with your battlecruiser. to me PvP is ships that are equal so you would know it was skill, not better equipment that made you a victor. but then again it's not a pvp server, it's a RP server, and if you shoot a cop, your gonna have an entire force against you. that's the life of a pirate mate:(

A few things, joojoo. First of all, stop double- or triple-posting, it's quite pointless when you can edit your posts. Secondly, pirates need to be well-geared to take out traders, who use shields with high regen-rates, high shield value and very good weapons (Don't tell me that class 4 transport turrets are weak, because that is quite false). If the pirates can't defeat the trader, then the whole purpose of pirating is gone, since the traders know they'll win. A fighter is very easy to take out with a good transport vessel with good equipment; that's why you'll even see teams of pirates, because otherwise their prey could win a fight if they have any skill. The purpose of a trader is not to be able to destroy all pirates and be able to trade for free, it's to trade plain and simple. I hope I got my point across here.

EDIT: 7 transports wouldn't just give a GB a hard time, they'd obliterate it.

double triple posting. mate everyone who's commented on this thread i've dedicated a post to thier ideas with ideas of my own(just like i did for you here)
secondly have you even seen my figures mate? take a look at my figures and if you disagree, bring your figures and lets compare notes.
i don't expect traders to be impervious, just saying using a Gb is overkill and imo not the best/easiest rp. i mean my liberty police id says i can have a cruiser or battleship, but how easily would i be able to rp that?

ok, first off. wicked amount of damage? compare a civ transport turret 4 to a gunboat turret, or a civ trans 4 turet to a lvl 10 gun. secondly, firing arcs? i believe so far the mining ship(the one you can buy at honshu) has 8 guns firing in one arc at all sides. the firefly(3500 cargo) has only 4 guns avail at one time on any side, i know the armored trans. has 4 turrets and 2 regular guns for forward arc. and i believe 4-6 for all the other angles, don't the GB's have thier turrets all avail for at least 1 side. now lets take a look at GB "shield Gunboat Positron Shield shield recharg=2200 shield cap=140000 compared to the best trans shield shield recharge=900 shield cap=100000 hmm side by side trans shield regen rate less than 1%, GB shield recharge rate more than 16%. I have never seen a transport(who's main purpose is to haul to make profit) install a capital armor upgrade(which takes up around 300 cargo space or more) i don't know anything bout the train disruptor miss rate, as many times that i was hit with one, i couldn't verify this. once again don't know much bout the 10 second thing, usually for me, it's hit by disruptor, then gb eats me alive before my cruise starts up again.


sorry mates my calculations were off. they should had been

now lets take a look at GB "shield Gunboat Positron Shield shield recharg=2200 shield cap=140000 compared to the best trans shield shield recharge=900 shield cap=100000 hmm side by side trans shield regen rate less than 1%, GB shield recharge rate more than 1.6%

sorry bout that folks


Please don't triple post in future, use the 'edit' feature. Thank you -Hoodlum

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