Are Pirates getting dumber?

[Archelon]

It is all relative. I should have also made a post "Are traders getting dumber" also, as pointed out here, they are also not great at times. In general though. I have been around a long long time here,and the number of pirates has gone up like 500%, and most of them are just moron's who want to make quick cash sitting on a tradelane doing nothing,or PvP whores. It used to be alot different, just ask some of the other vets around.(NY excluded. always been an idiot haven)

True. Like you say pirates have increased by 500%. But so has the number of Liberty lawful factions and mercenaries. We used to just have the SA to contend with. Now we've got [LN], LNS, =LSF=, LPI, LMC, and this list goes on. Not to mention we've got Bretonian lawful faction members (whom I've complained about in the past) coming to New York and other parts of liberty "enforcing the law." Mercenaries are about 90% lawful and 10% neutral or unlawful. Traders and miners seem to have found better trade routes and hidden mining spots because I can't seem to find very many. And those I do find give me the "lol" or "hahaha silly pirate" or "i never pay." From my perspective, there's as many lawfuls willing to take out a pirate as there are pirates pirating.