Usefullness of trading factions. Or uselessness rather...

[Warlord]

All right here is what I think of the matter.

Trade factions are not in-active, I'm in the [*USI*] and we're in the top three almost all the time in the faction activity list. (http://www.discoverygc.com/server/activity_summary.html)

Because I'm not part of any other trading faction I can only speak for my own. What I think most pirates do is look at what ships are with them in their system, and the level of the players to guess if its a trader or not. Yes, if you add the trade faction tag and have a high level the decision is made. But that's the only ''downside'' I can see, because trade factions don't slow you down.

In Universal Shipping you can pretty much have any ship you can afford, no matter the rank. Are you focussed on making a lot of money in a short time period you can always go out on your own, and if it doesn't bother you then you can go along with convoys and shush.

Being the Chief Security Officer I can already tell you that we're not interested in ''PvP-Whoring'' as somebody claimed somewhere. Escorting our ships is number one priority, assisting law-enforcers is second. We act in a defensive matter, if we get ignored we ignore them.

So all I see in this topic is the downside of adding a tag. It will increase the chances you get caught, big deal. Everything will have its up and down sides, our downside may be the tag but I see nothing else.

My two cents.

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