Back when I stopped playing I had almost entirely given up on combat ships. I flew one thing, which was my extensively modified Royal Liner. I flew that ship like no other, and you know what? I never made a profit. Why? Because (A) It had no combat capability versus bombers, Ptrans or Gunships whatsoever, and (B) I had no way to make a profit moving human cargo. The pirates ate me alive, so I made about ten million an hour if I was lucky, either by paying the SOBs or avoiding the tradelanes, or I could hire escorts - and LOSE money. LOSE money buying escorts, which were rarely good enough to save me from the pirates, who, for some reason, are all much better pilots than the local mercenaries (when there were any). RPing traders, much less a liner, is a chore if you want to make a profit. Maybe it's a little better now, but I doubt it. More monah. The lolcaps will never go away. Might as well make life easier for the rest of us.
Love,
Epps
EDIT: Also, cargo pirates have no soul. They exist to ruin your day. My RP is not satisfies by losing ten million credits an hour and taking a crapload of hull damage while my character and his ship (of which we are both very proud) are publicly humiliated. If you cargo pirate more than somebody needs to break even you are a horrible person, however sound your RP, and deserve to be banned, and possibly castrated as well.
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