Salvager is now a Gunboat

[Rudo]

Apparently some people with Salvagers thought they could pirate with it, get destroyed, and immediately return to the same system and continue pirating because it was a transport and thus exempt from the death rule.
Hoodlum's statement is imprecise at best.
Conducting piracy in any ship makes you subject to the pvp, death, fleeing, and re-engagement rules, the Salvager is no exception, and if it is being used in piracy instead of trading then it should be treated like it was a gunboat and follow all of the pvp rules.
If it is trading, then it is a transport.
So any changes to the ship as a result of rules changes are unnecessary, because the rules have not changed, they have just been clarified.

<strike>So... the Pirate Transport is a gunboat? The Raba is a gunboat? Both these transports are more effective at the role of piracy simply because they have cruise disruptors, which I'll remind you the Salvager was left without for the reason that it'd be ludicrously effective at piracy if it had one.</strike> I'm dumb and can't read.

I'm unclear as to how heavily the actions of a few players should impact the designation and role of a ship, and the roleplay of everyone else who owns one as a result. If rule loopholes are being exploited, doesn't the problem lie with the players performing the action in that case?

As Zelot said, the actions of the ship should determine how it should be treated. Not the ship itself.

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