Piracy 101

[Shepherd]

I personally agree in part with what maclyse has said mostly.

Another thing about the Xeno's though is that they are also trying to get support from the common man, to help their cause. If you deprive someone of lively hood then how would that help the Xeno cause and their RP? If the Xeno's demand only what they need, and RP that they only ask for foreigners to drop cargo, or Liberty traders coming for foreign lands to drop cargo that would make more sense.

The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter(in m mind) is a terrorist is destroying a persons sense of security, to advance their cause without regard to anothers beliefs; and make people to conform to their ideals.

The goals of a freedom fighter(like a Xeno) are to win the hearts and minds of the people to support your cause, even if they don't do it openly; and to only take from the populous only when in need, not to get rich.


About pirating, there are a lot of farmers, not pirates in the Omega's, cause when they are on I find them in the same spots. They stay in the same place and don't more. I figure that a lot of pirates that farm probably get caught by bounty hunters while waiting for the next trader to come through. Most pirates, from how pirates acted in the past they run from the lawfuls only if they know they can win, and run if not.

They also would most likely rob the crew for all they had, but than again, how many captains carried all their money with them? I don't figure OSC would let a captain fly around with 180 million credits either. To stay in RP though how many NPC pirates have you seen flying solo and destroying a transport? Usually NPCs fly in groups to take down bigger prey not on their own. You'd think that they'd only fly bombers to defend against military and police incursions. Just like my RM account, I only fly the bomber when taking on caps because that would in RP be a waste of military resources on fighter combat.

About the chat system thing, that can be RPed saying, 'that the gate lanes transmit sensor data'. But how is a trader to know if a pirate isn't using the chat system either?

If a trader avoids a the trade lanes it could be RPed that why because someone told them via chat, or again they know who the farmers are and times to avoid the lanes in a given system.

I also agree that pirating in NY is out of control and with Liberty having three law-enforcing factions that NY would be, should be the hardest place to pirate, and if pirating is done it should be done in groups, not solo.

But like has been said above many factions just seem to be OORP in a way because the Red Hessians and much of the Rheinland factions are more of freedom fighters not pirates, but than again pirating is the only way to survive, not make money. So I guess you really should check why you're pirating and see if your faction lines up with making money or fighting for a cause.

Could you imagine the dynamic that would be added to the game if certain "so called" pirate groups (ie: Red Hessians, Mollys, Corsairs, Outcast) had traders that supported their causes because they won the traders heart? Like if real a Red Hessian asked money from me and RPed why he is doing what he is doing, my character may even send support money to them or their faction, instead of being pirated.

I think this would help people understand what they are getting into. A pirate wants to be rich, a Red Hessian wants to change the government.