PETITION: Nerf NPCs

[tazuras]

But they don't, they spawn all over the place, next to New Berlin, attacking the planet in Hamburg...tough defences should be restricted to the locations where, in RP, it is tough to enter if you are a hostile. Not in "empty" space, and certainly not next to a friendly base.

Yes, this I agree is a little out of hand. I dont mind if they are there occasionally but when it is every time I dock/undock it's a little ridiculous. Still, this is an issue for another thread as it has to do more with system design than NPC equipment.

And what if a trader is dropped out of a lane by a player pirate and immediately encounters a couple of wings of hostile NPCs dropping his shield? Trader is not gonna be fleeing from them, as the player pirate wishes to conduct his RP session, pirating the trader. The trader is also not gonna be killing them, as that indicates hostile intent to the pirate. Way to kill pirating RP to "2mordai" "Ok".

Now this is interesting, I'm glad you brought this up. I think an encounter like this is just going to have to be RP'd differently from now on:
Trader: I'm not going to be able to pay you if your friends kill me.
Pirate: Hey, quit attacking my mark!
*pirate attacks NPC's*

Considering the rivalries between some of the Corsairs this seems reasonable for them at least. As for other pirates, the NPC's are violating their pirate code or something, perfectly reasonable RP excuse. Now this will give the trader a greater opportunity to escape but otherwise he would be dead and wouldnt pay the pirate.

The other option here is my proposed /neutral command that would stop the NPC's from attacking.

Please read again, it was in Omega-15, which contains a grand total of zero Corsair bases, one Bounty Hunter base and one Rheinland Military base...yet I encountered some 8 Corsairs, zero Bounty Hunters and zero RM. I did not actually enter Gamma with it.

Oops, sorry, must be tired. You forgot the junker base, this is where the Corsairs in the system base out of. I know because I took a million junker missions from it in .84, most of which were against corsairs, so they really hated me. I can see how this would be annoying and agree there should be a significant presence of both BHG and RM. I do know that in .84 there was this presence, at least to an extent. Regardless this is also more of a system design issue than an NPC loadout issue and should be in a different thread.

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