The Corsair issue

[Kubotan]

This thread will mainly be about how the Community feels about Corsairs in general and how the major negative views on us Corsair players have been created from the first place. I also like to bring up issues such as: Fairplay, outnumbering, outgunning and Bounty Hunters attacking Omicron Gamma.

As a Corsair player myself, I feel that its very hard to gain some respect regardless of how much you try to make things fair by asking your allies nicely to not join the fight with gunboats etc. when the enemies are say one bomber and one fighter. Though at the same time those that try to aim for fairplay amongst the Corsairs can't demand other players to do or not do, so in the end its up to the players that essentially fly these capital vessels.

I ask people who read this thread to not judge all Corsair players through actions of few (or possibly many since it seems there are many corsair capital players who disregard fairplay in all forms out there...)

There has been multiple occasions where people have PM'ed me in "OOC" stating how unfair we are for outnumbering/outgunning in such a huge scale. These complaints usually come from Bounty Hunters, but there have been players from other faction groups too. Now that this has been brought up I would also like to mention one thing, that I believe enemies of the Corsairs, especially bounty hunters must learn to accept as truth:

When you are destined to kill all Corsairs inside of Omicron Gamma, expect all of our forces to retaliate. One can't simply as a Bounty Hunter go into the very heart of the Corsair system and think that Corsairs will "cut him so slack" in the name of fairplay. On this issue I can see my allies point to take the enemy down with everything we got. Why should we as Corsairs, attack with two pilots and perhaps wait for them to die, so we can send in another two against the Bounty Hunter in order to preserve fair play? Whilst the Bounty Hunter stacks up his kill count to later only post shamelessly our deaths so he can get himself some cash and probably gaining more self-confidence at the same time. That is just Corsairs hurting themselves to be honest.

I would like to ask few question, since I'm pretty new around here and the general community:

- How did these negative views about Corsairs generally behavior begin? Was there a specific "enemy to the corsair" group spreading their bad experiences or was it through actions of specific Corsair players?

- Why does many assume that all Corsairs are frustrating, annoying, flies only capital ships, have no knowledge about roleplay and etc. all the bad traits of a player basically?

- Any solution to fix these problems?


Before answering these three questions, please read the whole post. Thank you for your time.