Suggestion for 4.86 or some other update

[Adam Peacecraft]

I've seen 4 lawful capships and a wing of fighters run around hunting down straggling pirates, and I've also seen no less than 15 pirates grouped together at once, some of them Outcast, some of them Rogue, some of them Hacker, running around New York in bombers and gunboats pwning the hapless 1-3 eency weency lawfuls trying to protect the space.

It's mostly a problem of 1) Some people don't know when it's unsporting to join a fight and horribly unbalance it, and 2) unlawfuls love to group together and own everyone left and right.

Frankly, it seems the unlawfuls are SMARTER than the lawfuls, as they know how to ensure their victory by doing this, but it's nigh impossible to get independent lawful contractors to group together effectively, and lawful faction members rarely get on en masse at one time. If the numbers were equal, it wouldn't be such a problem to have 10 pirates running around together, but it's usually 2 guys in fighters trying to uphold the law, and so they are destined to fail.

Prod the lawful factions to get on more regularly rather than stick to their events. The BAF in particular never ever get on with more than 2 guys at a time, but when they have an event you can see 14 of them in one system. I don't even bother to fly my BAF character anymore because I'm ALWAYS ALONE. (And because my ping prevents me from successfully shooting down anything when flying a fighter. Very demoralizing. That's what my funboat is for, to give me a chance to live.)

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*puts on fedora and trenchcoat* Now I know what sort of community you really are. *walks off into the rain*