NPCs too strong

[Fozzie]

Each NPC shouldn't have 3 TCDs, that means getting disrupted 9 times for every 3 ships. It just means a major pain to get around. I say give each FORMATION of NPCs 3 of them if NPCs have them at all which just doesn't make sense to me outside of guard systems and around cap planets. It kind of seems like this server is moving in a direction that excludes all but the high level players. We're an rp server but then we put NPCs in here that are hard enough to deal with that they take focus away from rp. I thought the more badass NPCs were to guard restricted areas and home planets but they are everywhere interfering with all levels of the game and many of them do NOT behave as the player chars are required to behave on this server. If most of us followed the lead of the NPCs we'd be sanctioned for what they do as a matter of course.

Personally I feel as if this server is leaving me behind along with many others because we can't devote the massive amounts of time required to play here properly. It's just getting too complicated to keep track of it all so it's almost becoming work to play here. I spent months exploring and finally had trade routes worked out that made fair money while keeping in rp and now I have to do all the exploring over while being harrassed at every turn by high level NPCs and player pirates with ridiculous demands. Meanwhile trading is far less profitable now but the NPCs are worse and the pirates still demand millions.

I dunno, I love it here but I'm getting pretty disilusioned by the direction we're going.