Redpants
Gallente
Dead Eagle
North Star Confederation
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Posted - 2007.02.03 19:07:00 -
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It's my opinion that being a pirate hunter, or anti-pirate is more than just combat. It's also about making systems safe. When we come en masse into a system we may get one engagement or two upon first arriving if we work quickly. Even if a system was filled with pirates (of the same or various corps) matching our strengths we notice they dock or leave the system sooner than they normally would. I won't say then run out or act cowardly by any means. We also don't encounter much smack talk from them which is respectable. Of course you get the occasional "oooh anti-pirates lawl/"
While remaining in the system, people become free to do their missions, run complexes, mine or whatever. It's screwing up the pirates profession. Obviously the system becomes too much trouble for them while present and they move on for awhile. So again it is more than just about PvP.
The engagement game is a bit different though from pirating itself. Where a pirate will ususally pick his targets on scanner and engage those targets he can successfully engage and destroy/ransom (hopefully the latter), we cannot do the same to a certain extent.
We don't know the pilot behind the ships on scanner. We're concerened with the pilot more than the ship where with piracy it's the other way around. If we're looking only to PvP then this wastes valuable time obviously compared to piracey, warping in on a target found on scanner and having to bring up his info only to find they're ok and move on. It goes without saying that having to bring up their info is dangerous to us because we're wasting the element of surprise and being the first to engage if they are pirates.
So the pirate hunting game is similar in some respects to piracy itself but with a downside that lends to our disadvantage in PvP for the explained reasons.
Is there any advantage to combat you may ask? Yes. Unlike piracy where you most likely fit for going up against anything (though you can fit racially if you only plan on engaging those types of ships), we become familiar with local pirates and what they fly. We also can convo the pods we pick up on scanner and ask them the who, what, and how about their recent ship loss and go about engaging that pilot intelligently.
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