Good post, I'd like to see a comparision of apples to apples with this topic as well. We've been pretty up front about time involved and profits seen from cargo runs. Let's hear from some of the pirates on the same elements. I might just change professions.

The one thing I would not reccomend is attacking a transport right outside a base. The base and all of the nearby police will open fire on you (so you cannot dock and sell the cargo). The single exception I've had to this was when a Gateway shipping convoy was taking fire from the Liberty Navy.

When attacking Transports / Heavy Transports, you can shoot the commodities off the transports. This yields more cargo then killing the transport outright.


What I've found to be a good tactic is to have one player in a fighter, one in a freighter. The fighter blows up the supply depots / cargo from transport. The frieghter tractors it all in and sells it at the station (since its not seen as hostile). The fighter evades the return fire and flees, meeting up with the freighter as soon as the cargo has been sold. the fighter can tractor cargo as well, transfer it to the freighter a small distance away, allowing the freighter to sell that too.

There is no way that you can threat players or NPCs like NPC pirates. Only normal chat. This is Freelancer, and the game designers intend you earn money by doing missions, not pirating or trading. What a pity.

All I would wish are some quick chat commands like in Counter-Strike.

Except... you can be a pirate. You can make money, and you can make it reasonably quickly.

Hmm, I really can't wait to play on a persistent server

It just sucks that we dutch people have to wait so long for the game to be released here, and that while we will play the same version as the US people (english)