what the hell pirates

[Jinx]

its a bit strange really.

for a long time - it was said that the "police does not need big ships. - even gunboats were considered "bad RP" for the police"

mind you - that standard was mostly suggested BY the police itself! - i have not seen many pirates saying "oi, you police lot, you must not fly gunboats against us"

so - the best counter to gunboats are ( surprise ) destroyers. - but the police factions cut themselves from those ships - by their own free will.

now you really cannot complain that you have no effective counter against gunboats. - the official police refused to allow the use of such large ships ( out of the responsibility not to spin the capital ship spiral more upwards or other reasons - who knows ) - but cause YOU don t want to use the large ships doesn t mean that the same must apply to the enemy that never asked NOT to use gunboats etc.

when players say "bombers own everything" - be my guest - deploy masses of bombers - if there are players to fly them. but it really was the police factions themselves that voluntarily wanted not have destroyers and battleships listed in their ID. - it was not a demand of the pirates.

its like saying "we zoners have decided not to use capital warships at all anymore! - how DARE you nomads to attack us with battleships!!!"


edit:

what does a pirate want? - he primarily wants to rob traders and either avoid the police or successfully fight the police. - that is RP. if he wants to "match" the opposing police forces - he must rely on the police forces to play fair, too. - i daresay, there are enough pirates that got attacked by overwhelming forces when they were trying to pirate in a single bomber or even a fighter. (only, no police would ever come to the forum saying "whoa, these pirates - we owned them 3 to 1 easily!" )

the gunboat is the best piracy vessel. - when used in rediculous numbers - every ship is a pain. when facing such a threat like 4 gunboats bunched up or more. it would become a matter of the military. - and the military CAN deploy a battleship against them - and thats also totally fair. no one that is serious about it will complain that a house military used a dreadnought to chase off 4 gunboats that were too much for the police to take and had it "their way" all the time.

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