Are Pirates getting dumber?

[n00bl3t]

We will just change the whining from "all my cargo with minimal RP" to "the maximum he could with minimal RP", and we won't remember what the rule was trying to accomplish, it will just lead to more rule mongering and angsty threads about xxx rule or yyy person.

Well, I think the reason people are getting annoyed is the fact that they are not making a profit from trading, when the vast majority of their profits are getting pirated away.

More credits in hand and less feeling of loss actually lead to a better interaction for the majority of normal traders.

I agree with mwerte - just throwing in some more rules isn't going to help anyone. Especially as traders are already protected more than they deserve as it is.

No, what I think should be done is to give the weaker Transports (ie, transports other than, say, the Shire or the Percheron) a slight boost to enhance their survivability in convoys, but ease up on the Pirate rules of engagement. That way, traders would be encouraged to fly in convoys (and so would be pirates), which in turn would lead to more roleplay and maybe even less boredom during the endless grinding sessions everybody seems to have to do nowadays to get a PvP-ready ship...

How are they protected more than they deserve it?

Also, is that not the same thinking which ruined mining and the current economy?

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It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.