Pirates

In short, are they even in-game? I recall at some point they were going to be taken out, but it’s been about 6 months since I played and I’ve been hopping around for a couple days straight looking for some and have come up empty. Thanks in advance for any input.

-Draken

They’re still out of the game… kinda sucks, they were fun to have around.

Yeah it was kinda fun running around blasting pirates when you were bored and there was no one to RP with.

I personally would like to see different levels of experienced pirated ships. Like medium sized pirate ships that could possibly kill you in small fighter. It would give a real threat to flying out there alone.

The thing that concerns me is pirates in systems. They should just be left to uncharted space.

I think they need to stay in system, for the sole reason of clans having to decide "Should I put all of my ships over my safe sector, and risk losing the rest of them to pirates sooner, or disperse them a bit?". It’s lame to put them all over one planet, and yes it might be lame for clans to destroy unmanned ships after a blockade/support dropper, but it happens on both sides. Just part of the game, and one that should stay.

I’d love to see an unknown system where there is a pirate base, with pirate ships flying around the base. (Anybody remember Freelancer?)

I’d also very much like to see the return of the pirate ships for the reasons that were stated above by Gathorn.

Yay Freelancer.