Way to see if someone is a pirate or not without scanning?

[Sprolf]

My observations have revealed the reason why one might not want to play in single player.

Other players are bad when you're trading.
Other players are good when you're playing admiral.


And as a side note, somehow I manage to never run into a hostile player when I trade or smuggle. It's not difficult, you just need to use some imagination. Guess where they're going to be camping lanes - and DON'T go there. Guess where they're going to be camping jumpholes - DON'T go there. Work your way around them, using an unexpected path. There's always another way around, you know. It's not just the quickest way.

The single fact that I powertrade across the Omegas with a Corsair-hostile IFF and ID doesn't make anything very easy, now does it?

Somehow I manage, and somehow I fund capital ships with that money.
And some of the most fun times in the game were when I was playing cat-and-mouse across the entire Omegas with the OPG. That was brilliant fun, and brilliantly terrifying.

Ah, the lot of a Molly.

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