[Akalabeth Angel]

and pirates using state-of-the-art tech? and anyway, which all recourses and industry focused on a long war with the Vasudans, then suddenly almost facing annihilation...                 ...GTA would not tolerate Piracy for long.

        Yeah, when I put pirates in my campaign I wasn't overly excited by it either. Fits in something like X-wing and Tie Fighter, which I made missions for when I played 'em. But seems odd having pirates in lokis and so forth. I think I tried to put the ole Avenger in there to give them some ****ty tech but I had problems so screw it.

         But for any sort of peace time mission what you can do? The player'll get bored if he does like 10 scanning missions in a row (not to mention the FREDDer will get bored, and I don't I friggin know!).

          Yeah, necrothreadagged, whatever, who gives a ****.

[blowfish]

Yeah, necrothreadagged, whatever, who gives a ****.

We do

[Akalabeth Angel]

Yeah, necrothreadagged, whatever, who gives a ****.

We do

       Meh, we both posted in a thread 3-4 months old, the difference is my post was actually vaguely relevant to the topic.
       Don't see the issue with responding to an old question that's only 5 posts down in a forum that's somewhat lacking in activity. Or would you rather I posted a "ST:R is seriously dead, i haven't seen a new screenshot in two days! omg! Prove me wrong" 

[Black Wolf]

Necrothreading ternds to be OK ass long as something is added to a conversation and it's not so old that half the contributors on the thread have left.

[Galemp]

If it's on the first page, it's fair game.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Necrothreading ternds to be OK ass long as something is added to a conversation and it's not so old that half the contributors on the thread have left.

When you say that, Black Wolf, are you referring to bumping threads like those stored under Classics?

[Topgun]

those are locked though.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I know. I'm just using them as examples. If they were unlocked and necro'd, is that an offence?

[Droid803]

They're locked for a reason.
Namely so that people wouldn't necro them.

[Akalabeth Angel]

     Oh this thread, I don't recall posting any thread about pirates. I'm guessing that due to the favourite faction thread someone's trying to stimulate a discussion on pirates? (hence the threadsplit) So go ahead everyone, talk about pirates. Yarrr.


Arrrr, ye matey: (pros)
-Pirates can give the player combat in peacetime
-or just provide low level combat in prelude to a larger war?
-be a logical enemy in any civilian based campaign? (even if they're corporate sponsored mercs)

Narrrr, ye blimey:(cons)
-pirates only appear in one mission of Silent Threat, widespread piracy has no basis in canon
-most user-made campaigns have pirates not acting like pirates? (not trying to steal cargo, just warp in and dying).
-don't fit the flavour of Freespace


Anyone else?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Why is the Volition Bravos a pirate ship?

* Androgeos Exeunt looks at the AJ Androgeos and sees it as a larger, upscale, purple version of the Volition Bravos.

[Snail]

The bad thing about pirates is that they act more like Shivans flying old crap.

[Colonol Dekker]

Depends on the pirate

[Snail]

Depends on the pirate

You'd fly like a drunk Shivan, I'm sure.

[Colonol Dekker]

It's morning and i'm sobre, have been for days 

You'd fly like a big poo poo head no doubt......

[Snail]

You'd fly like a big poo poo head no doubt......

I'd just set the difficulty to Very Easy.

[Colonol Dekker]

Never thought of that

Where would you bas e your pirate base?

[ShadowGorrath]

Whatever you do, a Deimos and multiple fighter and bombers will jump in, pulverise you all, and depart. Courtesy of the GTVA.

[Spicious]

The GTVA would murder anyone they suspected of piracy?

[Snail]

The GTVA would murder anyone they suspected of piracy?

Well, if it's anything like the British government... Yeah.