what the hell pirates

[Marcus Lindberg]

yes - but you, the police *chose* not to use, as you say - APCs, humvees or light tanks. - who can say what the police looks like once there is crime in space and everyone is allowed to freely buy or craft weapons of mass destruction.

sure you can still stick to cars all you want.... but you cannot blame the other side for still using light tanks. - you may say "but we compare much better to RL in the 21th century" - and thats fair and good. - but frankly... who cares. - in ancient greece - a city defender was the hoplite, often one single naked guy with a spear and a helm.

the fact is - police factions were allowed large ships and they did not WANT to use them. - saying that others MUST follow the example is dictating one sort of RP on others.

Tell me, have you ever seen a pirate or a terrorist flying/driving a light tank? I doubt it.

Thats Why I liked Bear's comment that gunboats should also be restricted to official factions and on a registry basis, pirates shouldn't even have the money to field something like that.

According to sindroms report a week earlier (where he was compaining too many GB's), there are 36 pirate gunboats.

36.

Thats a military assault force.

They could probably destroy 2 or even 3 dreadnoughts with that many in a conventional battle.

This is not right.

My proposal is that like the Armored transport, there should be a pirate armored transport, heavily armed, but not a capital ship. That would work better and would be affordable to pirates.