3 Suggestions/issues

[Dab]

Actually, I've been doing nothing but killing lawful ships (Kusari) and liberty loves me. I didn't know trading affected rep.

Kusari is at war with Bretonia. Bretonia is allied with Liberty. Killing Kusari will help your Liberty rep.

Firstly, in the first mission, trent had several allies. Secondly, if it's true that the NPCs have no energy requirements, then I see your point. Still, SOMEHOW most of the fights in the game need to be made more difficult. I know it's possible because the NPCs in the border worlds are hard from what I hear...we just need to make the ones in the inner worlds difficult too. C'mon, I should not be having this easy a time wasting massive patrols of kusari navy ships on my own. Even if the initial suggestion isn't feasible, somehow make the non-border world encounters a bit harder.

The ways you make ships harder, is increased patrol difficulty levels when making the system. This will end up changing the AI's skill, loadout, and sometimes ship. Igiss already increased AI skills in general for all difficulty levels. Your way will simply unbalance it all.

But most mines don't do much to even low level NPC shields.

Answer the question already. Have you used Nuclear Mines?

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