Piracy in House Systems

[Shazbot11]

The piracy within New York is starting to get a bit ridiculous, as it stands that I can almost always find a disrupted trade lane every other minute. To be honest, though, it's not EVERY pirate who's flying around in a GB/BS and asking for 5 million credits in broken english (no offense to the international playerbase). Established pirate factions in Liberty, like the XA, LR, and LH have a sense of what is and isn't reasonable to use in Liberty space (at least in my experience in being stopped by them).

Now, at the risk of opening another pandora's box, I will say this: 75%, if not more, of the GB/BS pirates in Liberty are indies. And, unfortunately, the LNS/LPI/LSF players cannot be online every hour, on the hour. In situations like this, I just hire someone from the BHG to do some community service. But regardless, Wuselkobold raised an excellent point about the frequency of NPC patrols; if they can be tweaked to be more frequent during high player concentrations within home systems, it may help in curbing some rampant capship swarming. The only foreseeable downside to this is that things may get even more hectic for the legitimate Liberty pirate factions.

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