3 Suggestions/issues

[Demonic Spoon]

1.) You have to be friendly with that specific pirate group to do those things.

No...you just have to not be hostile...Which is the same for every other faction in the game.

2.) I take it you've not flown against Guard/Nomad/MkII House fighters yet? You'll find that it WOULD unbalance their difficulties.. Namely, making those three types of ships be able to take on anything. Now remember, 4 fighters can take down a battleship. Now look if NPCs did the same amount of damage as we do? Battleships would die in under a minute against NPC fighters. That IS unbalanced and they would be overpowered. They are meant to be guards, not gods. Some things will upset balance in this mod, this is one of them. Go fight the Zoner Guard in Omicron-74, check out Livadia Shipyards. Then come back here and tell me that NPCs are no trouble at all.

Okay? Even if there are a few difficult NPC encounters out there, the vast majority of encounters in the mod are still insanely easy. It would definitely be worth it to change the few ones that are currently balanced for the sake of making EVERYTHING good.

3.) That massive price is there because they CAN be used against other player fighters. Why sell it cheap so people will mine-spam? This stops people from just mine-spamming like crazy. Same reasons for the Sidewinder Missile's price, and the sunslayer torp, and the Cannonballs, and Battleship Cruise Disrupters. They are extremely good pieces of machinery, and are as expensive as good pieces of machinery. Don't like the price, than don't use it.

Alright, that's well and good, except that still makes most other mines useless. Mines cost the same as a similarly powered missile, yet generally if an enemy is in a position where you might hit him with a mine, his shields will be up and it will do little damage.