Got a trading capship... kinda. A GIANT TRADER!

[Shepherd]

Heh i'm constantly changing routes all the time.

Semi legal? Don't care, so long as out of liberty and the houses. Won't do anything really vile like drugs or pot (OK... some of you don't consider pot a drug) though.

Running a patriotic mission for my nation by smuggling cardamine into rhineland space to poison them from the inside out... nah... too risky... will leave that to the secret forces:D

Anyway, I think this game really needs a CAPITAL CLASS hauler!!! Maybe with 5 BATTLESHIP turrets, 15,000 cargo (ok, 10k would be enough) nice armor and slow as hell... just able to get into a tradelane.

Make it cost as much as a dreadnaught... or MORE!!! Who wouldn't pay a billion credits to never have to fear puny lone pirates in heavy fighters ever again?
Oh and to the post directly above... I don't like your kusari ship designs. We libertonians arrived in Sirius WAYYY before anyone else, therefore we should have the best in hauler engineering!!!:P

I was thinking the same thing, though I remembered the balance issue, because than everyone would want one and thats OORP. But when was the last time you got Pirated by a lone NPC bomber? I didn't think so, last time I checked they used fighters in groups of three or four, so having a heavily armed transport(that cost out the wazzu) would make since and that would add to the pirates RPing in groups instead of groups of one bomber.

I makes more sense that if pirates are pirating in bombers, people that actually work for a living(ok to be rich) would invest in building a stronger(it doesn't have to have cap weapons) transport so that they could fend off a lone pirate bomber.

I think it would add the RP for pirates to have to struggle in their bombers taking done transports. Cause right now they just quickly drain our shields, and tell us to hand over the money, with little time to RP, its like what am I going to run off in the Omega's when the bomber can kill me in three or four shots? Maybe they could just give us lvl 10 shields.

My thoughts anyway.