Pirating is ruining my game experience

[Baltar]

you are comparing things that arent compareable. contraband is meant to be risky. and there is some kind of logic about contrabands and your fate when carrying it and being cought. being pirated by players/factions that are neutral to you and loosing everything (including the time to get it in the first place), all simply because the other wants your money, and not 3 lines of roleplay... isnt fun.

Well ... you just lost all credibility dude. Sorry ... but like you said ... its a freaking game. Rule 0.0 ... read it. Trust me ... its no fun working 2 or 3 hours (as you claim) mining or trading or whatever just to lose it ALL plus lose credits along with it.

You just make me wanna pirate you till you get mad and start another thread. I feel no sympathy for you at this point. You're talking to me about being "risky" with contraband ... yet you fail to realize that your trading and mining is just as "risky" if not more-so. I hope you get pirated twice in every system you travel through. I hope they demand 10 mil each time you come across a pirate's path. Why? Because you are only concerned about yourself. You have no concern whatsoever with OTHER people's role play. You're just here to buy the biggest baddest ship with the hardest hitting weapons and the strongest armor so you can go pound people with it. And you wanna do it in the quickest way possible ... and that's the only reason you want to limit pirates ... so you can get to your prize ship the quickest way possible

Man I hope you really get pounded by pirates. Answer your own freaking question. I've quoted them here ... please ... answer this question in relation to my smuggler getting whacked by lawfuls. If you can't ... then you're a hypocrite.

... is it really so difficult to understand that loosing everything you worked for long at one go repeatedly is NOT fun?

maybe thats because you play the game a bit longer than me? maybe you have found your trade/mining locations that are save? maybe I have not? Maybe you can understand that for a new player the situation is a bit different than for you?

Yes ... I have been here longer ... and yes I've found a few routes that don't get pirated and I can usually avoid getting picked off by the lawfuls when I smuggle contraband. But life is full of learning experiences. You want a safe route ... ask some folks that have been here a while. But quit acting like a spoiled brat simply because you can't figure it out for yourself. Ask people where the best place is to mine (that's fairly safe) ... and routes that traders don't get ganked on. All this comes with experience ... and you can't get experience on day one. Some things you just gotta either learn for yourself the hard way or ask someone that's been around a while. Don't be the jerk that wants to turn the world upside down just so you get all the benefits.

I'm currently looking for Miners who want to band together to stand a chance against pirates. Xfire Captainpuffy

I understand your frustration, I spent a week putting 3000 units of gold together and was ganked in New London. The buggers wanted the whole load, and wouldn't accept anything else, so I told them to destroy me. If you give me an unreasonable demand I'll give you an unreasonable reply.

In the long run, I just moved away from dublin to a less profitable but safer location.
Since the community seems to be watching this topic, and it some what relates, I think I'll ask.
How do you guys feel about dual boxing? Is it legal? (IE: Running 2 or more machines playing freelancer, having one ship a train and another a vhf, in the same system, working together)

Dax meet RobinTheHood ... RobinTheHood meet Dax. You guys need to get together to get things figured out so we don't end up with trial-by-forum crap like this in the future.

@ RobinTheHood: Don't you think your forum name is a bit off of what you're portraying yourself to be? Robin Hood was a pirate ... for all intents and purposes ... he was in fact "robbing" people. My "generic Pirate ID'd pirate" portrays himself as a Robin Hood type character. I see the Black.Pearl as being the noble pirate taking from rich traders and giving to the poor (those you call Outcasts, Rogues, Junkers, Hackers, etc ... etc ...) In role play ... you gotta think beyond what you see as red, white and green on your HUD. You think the Order or Liberty Rogues don't have kids of their own? I look at Liberty Rogues, Mollys, Blood Dragons and many others as simply poor folk trying to scrounge up whatever measly scraps they can find to stay alive while you tyrannous rich government types sit in the lap of luxury. Chew on that for a while will ya.