' Wrote:True, I am not very familiar with Rheinland. But I think it is very reasonable that a transport doesn't stand a chance vs. a cruiser. Also I think it is kinda cool that the Omegas are contested, and that it isn't easy to just go out and mine like crazy, ez-mode. If all miners in the Omegas set aside 10% of your accumulated profits for mercenaries, you would be able to fund an army while still making a fortune in the process. Or set up some sort of deal with the Hessians where you give them a cut.
Army of mercs to keep hessians away from miners... You don't know about what you speak... DHC did such thing in past, they paid RHA 100 M monthly, next month hessians demanded 200 M, so what, next fee would be 300? DHC broke agreement, and that was good move. But it's not about officials, it's problem with dozens of indies, how you'll organise them and pay, so they won't attack? It's impossible, many of them, barely speaking English, do it for fun from pewing everything what is marked as hostile/at war in hessian diplomacy table on wiki.
It's good Omegas are like in lore contested, "Die Krugar" isn't good. Every player is suppoused to have fun from Discovery, and it's fun in transport/miner vs. a lone snub fight, because there's chance to defend transport. TS,TZ, chainfire... There's not any chance for transport against a lone cruiser. Only possible sanction aftermath for "Die XYZ!"
EDIT as answer to Mimir's EDIT:
It's not about me, I have both miner and trader chars, it's about game mechanics, as I pointed out above. But leave that hessian thing, it's kinda offtopic, although it's good example how cap piracy is used in Rheinland.
