Piracy in House Systems

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The man raises a good point. (Your english is good by the way mate:D)

I like the whole Tank on the highway thing. But is there a way to stop it? Can you forcibly change the aiming of say, a cruiser/BS patrol so that it can smash Gunboats, but make it easy to miss for anything smaller?

Thank you. :$
I don't think it can be changed with the game mechanics, so i was heading only for the RP part, making people think more before they act.

I agree. But wouldn't they have the same response if someone was pirating in a fighter or a bomber? It is the pirate that makes the police and navy respond, not the ship they fly.

Edit: DAMN YOU DREAM THEATER! YOU HAVE TURNED ME FROM NOT AMUSED TO PISSED OFF!!

Not Necessarily. Being a fighter/bomber you can keep a low profile very easy, maybe slip through sensor holes and change your position faster. Additionaly, you are no priority target, if you magage to escape, lets say into the Badlands, nobody is supposed to follow you, because the risk is to high if the only thing to achieve is to shoot down a lone fighter.
A gunboat on the other hand is something completely different. The loss one of those would hurt most pirate factions pretty hard, since their resouces are limited. Because of this, the Navy would probably put more efford in hunting down a GB then a fighter/bomber.

Wait...pirating in a cruiser? Or did I read it wrong

They weren't exactly pirating (one time backing a GB up in NY and the other time sitting in orbit of NL) But the consequences woul be around the same if not worse then for a GB i guess.

I don't necessarily agree. Since when were house systems heavily defended? Certainly not in vanilla, where pirate npcs inhabit all over the place. With the exception of gallia, trade lanes are not defended heavily. They would be patrolled occasionally, but they certainly are not defended enough to justify your point.

Bombers are just as a military craft as a gunboat, and can be potentially more dangerous to shipping and installations. Wouldn't it be a deathwish for them to pirate in house space as well? Considering the "well-trained fighter patrols" houses seem to magically patrolling every tradelane (in some people's minds)?

Your real-life example does not make much sense, considering tradelanes are not highways and we don't pirate people with cars or tanks.

The House Systems are heavily defended. There is a Battleship stationed in every single one of them. In Vanilla, the House Police and Military forces had patrol routes all over the trade lane network, when i pirated back in Vanilla, there was an NPC patrol around every 5 minutes or so.
In Discovery it is even worse, if the server is quiet empty, there are Cruiser spawns all over the place.
As for the bombers - look above.
If you are referring to me with *some people* please say so.
The RL example fits quet well, since the Trade Lanes are the 'roads' (can't think of another word, sorry) all the traffic is going through...if they are cut off, the whole economy is. If the TLs are the roads, then the transports are the trucks transporting all the stuff the big cities need to live. Since there are no alternatives like Air-shipping, trains or Ships (the one going over the oceans :D) in the FL Universe the Houses need their TL network to work, or people on the planets will suffer.

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