pirate typical ships

[Baltar]

@ joojoo1975: Ok ... I'm not going to address each and every point you're making here. But ... pirates are pirates. They're gonna pirate traders and avoid the law and the navy. My pirate will typically avoid pirating within a house system ... especially when the law or the navy is about. Thus ... I don't have to worry about them much. I usually only need to worry about the overzealous bounty hunters in their battle cruisers. So ... for that reason we're in gunboats and bombers. Bounty hunters in their capships don't last long against bombers. Its basic tactics ... survival dictates what tools you use. If bounty hunters came in gunboats and bombers ... most of your pirates might be in VHFs. But then you've got the traders in overpowering trasnports. The CT was specifically designed to survive in the outback. CTs were designed to defend themselves from pirates and such. As a result pirates need more powerful vessels to take them on. And since most pirates live in austere places where there are few friendly bases or planets to resupply ... it kinda dictates that we'd be in gunboats. Gunboats (role play wise) are big enough for us to carry supplies for survival in the outback. And trust me ... it still takes a gunboat a long time to whittle away most transports shields and hull. Transports carry plenty of bats/bots to survive long enough to get to a docking point. A gunboat has 1 shot with bats. When my shield goes down on my gunboat and I regen my shields ... 100% of all my bats are gone. I don't have enough to regen again. So when my shields go down the second time ... its life or death for me. I've either gotta get the trader, die or run away.