System camping? What the?!

[pipboy]

Well, the pirates could easily orbit Harris with a squad of 2 or 3 bombers and say 'Any trader that doesn't pay up NOW, will be destroyed upon leaving the dock.'

That will either force them to stop trading there, or force them to pay after getting seeing a lot of ships get blown up quickly.

EDIT: Hell, A GB could easily block the mooring fixture on Harris, too.

Except that most of the time, if any pirate starts heading toward Tau 31 tons of traders jump into their warships all the sudden. Battleships, cruisers, etc; it usually is suicide to bother trying. All the other traders either stay docked until all the battleships and cruisers show up - or they simply rush back and forth making it nearly impossible to stop them. There are occasions when no defenders are there, but most of the time you would need a huge battle group just to attempt it.

For example, about a week ago 5 corsairs (including myself) tried to hit Tau 31. We met a heavy wall of defenders which we were barely able to defeat. Then a Molly faction showed up and defended the traders!! Where do in all of the world of RP can Mollys defend traders?!? :unsure:I'll tell you, it's not in the world of RP, those Mollys have very active trader chars that they use to make money in 31 so they switch into their warships and as "pirates/terrorists" defend the good guys...

I know I am a noob to this server - but I'm not really sure why people defend this route... I used it for all of about 2 days until I realized what a scam it was. And that was only because it was the only good route I knew. I'm not proud of it, and I wont do it again.

Just look at all the trouble with ooc and non RP that has been taking place there. That tells you everything you could ever want to know about the people that use the route. I admit, I probably am guilty of some ooc chat when I was there - it's hard not too. That's why I now avoid Tau like the plague (as far as trading goes).

Don't mean to step on a bunch of veteran's toes. Just had to get that off my chest.

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