Galatic Announcement

[Circadian_Lupine]

Ok first off, my battleship is nowhere near Berlin or Tokyo, and i really don't want to navigate through another 4 asteroid fields with it to get there. So for the time being at least i can't even participate in this blockade.

That being said though, it's an entirely legit enterprise. If you're a small trader in one of the games original stock freighters you have immunity to us, so nobody get's to pull the "i'm just a poor little trader" card. I wouldn't be opposed to a rule adding armored transport to the list of PvP safe vessels since they really don't have much cargo space to speak of, and are poorly armed. But if you're rolling in enough dough to drop 12 million on a large train then you have to accept the responsibility that comes with hauling millions of dollars worth of diamonds through space. That's just life. Try walking through central park (or a seedy populated area in your respective countries) with sacks of money strapped to your back if you want proof of that :-p

There are other planets to trade at if you want to keep the game as bland and uninteresting as possible, we're not likely to chase you accross the entire system for one load of whatever you're carrying. If you want to stay and make a fight of it, i've seen some largr transports with swapped out weapons that would pose a serious health risk to a stock cruiser. Daedalus was right in an earlier post, if you can't handle playing on a server with actual human beings that may not always do exactly what you want them to do, play SP.

This would be a good time to fix the novaslayer though, with the conflict rising here lighter ships really need a way to fight back. The one i bought in the unknown systems is just a rediculously expensive sunslayer. Maybe the damage isn't bugged at other points of sale, but that would be ususual.

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