Hehe nice one.I was running guns into Khaka yesterday and got interdicted by some clown in a Clipper, I was in a T6. Boost, chaff, repeat until I FSD out of there with 36% hull and all but two tons of my original cargo. I laughed so hard at this guy who couldnt kill a T6 in his Clipper, then I picked up my FDL and chased him out of the system. I am no victim, no matter what I am flying
Victims of Piracy Support Group
- Thread starter SeregDuin
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Well if someone outclasses you, it would be logical to listen to the guy who can easily kill you. But you're right, if traders listened to logic, rather than their heart, and greed, my job would be incredibly boring. It would basically be scoop and sell. Killing traders is too easy, however getting the most amount of cargo possible from them, is not.
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I'm not sure I answered to you earlier. Some people insisted on pirates forcing them to play the game their (the pirates) way and how bad that is. Plus the pirates rob their precious game time and all. We are not forcing anyone to do anything. Those, who do not want that experience have their options. And then I smoked about how some players use this protection to grind out the big ships peacefully and then some out to open and show off.
Everyone play in open only can be considered a hero. You realize that open is dangerous and you cope with it. Good.
Never drop a cargo willingly, good again. I personally like traders fighting back. Limpets are there for a reason. I wish they worked a little better against CMDRs, but I don't complain.
You don't cry when you get blasted by pirates for not playing along, great spirit, keep it up. We need defiant traders.
In game evasion is a valid tactic. Anyone who get angered by that is a moron. Only Combat logging annoys me slightly. It is just so easy to get away using valid in-game methods, that going solo should never be an option.
Everyone play in open only can be considered a hero. You realize that open is dangerous and you cope with it. Good.
Never drop a cargo willingly, good again. I personally like traders fighting back. Limpets are there for a reason. I wish they worked a little better against CMDRs, but I don't complain.
You don't cry when you get blasted by pirates for not playing along, great spirit, keep it up. We need defiant traders.
In game evasion is a valid tactic. Anyone who get angered by that is a moron. Only Combat logging annoys me slightly. It is just so easy to get away using valid in-game methods, that going solo should never be an option.
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I'm just curious about something. How come we're not seeing piracy around the core empire worlds? Why is it all focused in a few areas?
It's mainly focused around the Lave area because that was the original starting
Point of Elite and most people will eventually find their way there . It is also a source of rares.
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Rares make you rich quickly, people like to get rich quickly. Pirates like people who are trying to get rich quickly. Lave hub is still good, but it's not as good as it was now that local area rares are worthless locally.
You are just working with false assumptions, so applying logic will almost certainly yield wrong conclusions.
You think I should operate as though you killing me in-game has much larger consequences than it actually does. At the same time you take full advantage of the fact that currently piracy has little to no consequences. Do you see the double standard? Should I expect pirates to only dock in anarchy systems and be KoS in federation/alliance/empire? Of course not. That is not currently part of the game. So why would I play the way you want?
To be fair, you seem to be using limpets when a trader doesn't comply. I can at least respect that a bit more than the whining I have seen so far.
Actually, as a pirate, I wouldn't mind if the game moved towards that situation, so long as interdiction was scaled to bounty and the number of police was related to system security.
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People will fight for the smallest and strangest of things sir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFtHjV4c4uw
Well you dieing does have bigger implications on you. You lose all your cargo and have to pay insurance, that's a couple hours of work. If that's not a big deal to you that's fine, but it's not an insignificant penalty.
You're right that pirates have it easy, kill someone and only pay a small fee. You're also wanted by the inept police force, which is more adorable then fearsome. I welcome harder higher consequences for piracy. I even keep my bounty for that reason, but except for the occasion player bounty hunter it's riskfree.
I do try to use limpets when I can but they're not much use against type 6s and cobras. They're also pointless unless the cargo us really valuable. Who wants to scoop up 12 tons of worthless cargo across 7km of space?
Well lave is the rare capital which attracts pirates. It's also heavily populated which attracts pirates.
I also think most pirates are empire supporters. Since the clipper is the best pirate vessel in the game, I'd imagine quite a few pirates have a fondness for the Empire. I know I play as an empire privateer, and code supports the Empire, I'd imagine it is that way with most pirates. Go to sol and you might run into some pirates.
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Me too
The police force can be really annoying. They have a tendency to pull me over just 2 secs before I would start an interdiction. Plus I can't scoop more than 2-3 tons with 3 police banging my shields away. And finally, they insist on scanning me. If I can't gat far enough fast enough, they give me a hefty ticket for illicit cargo. And if I kill them afterward I end up with +18k bounty on my head over the ticket. Annoying.
And they never drop anything. I hoped for stuff like weapons, military plans or the like.
Pirating in a Clipper sounds boring. I go about in a Viper because combat oriented players tend to fight back. "Ohh puny Viper with a Competent pilot, I'm an Expert in an ASP or Vulture so I can trash it quickly." Meanwhile if they see a clipper, I think they would run like hell.
And they never drop anything. I hoped for stuff like weapons, military plans or the like.
Pirating in a Clipper sounds boring. I go about in a Viper because combat oriented players tend to fight back. "Ohh puny Viper with a Competent pilot, I'm an Expert in an ASP or Vulture so I can trash it quickly." Meanwhile if they see a clipper, I think they would run like hell.
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This would probably be why I've not been pirated yet, just randomly interdicted and attacked without a word by random sidewinders.
Still, when that corvette comes out I might be tempted to head into Fed space and start racking up reputation over there. Then I might see ya'all trying to steal my liquor.
Travel out of their firing range and press Del to go into silent running. Wait for them to jump away. Then go back for the remaining cargo.
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It helps to stick to killing Cobra, ASP and Type-6 Transporters. You should have just enough time to kill them and scoop the cargo before the old bill turn up. If not your weapon load-out is wrong or you need to allocate more pips to them.
Then I might see ya'all trying to steal my liquor.
Make sure you bring rum.
Let me know when you want to team up. I am more than willing to help you hunt down some pirates.