what the hell pirates

[JovialKnight]

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!!!"
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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 police are exactly that, police. Not military, not the navy. If we followed your advice, we'd become basically a low powered navy faction, which isn't what policing is about.

on the other hand why do i care? Hopefully there will be so many pirates in NY that traders will start going trough omegas. More profit for my crew.

For me and a few other traders I've known and talk to, this is actually what is in progress. Perhaps if the traders concentrate on the Omegas, Liberty's horrible lawful/unlawful ratio will even out.

Simple solution: Call the Telephone Navy; they deal with this.

The Police are supposed to deal with smugglers and domestic problems like angry traders and insane Freelancers. Not powerful gunboat toting pirates. I'm sure the LNS-Aurora would be quite pleased to kick the crap out of a few pirates.

Always how I've seen it, as have the leadership of the police factions it seems.

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