Pirates vs Pirates

[Slamz]

How many pirates would be interested in a way to pledge themselves to an NPC pirate faction other than the Brethren? Doing so will make all pirates not of your faction attackable, as if they were on a different team.


This will have no impact on gameplay in terms of quests or NPC reputation, but it will let them fight each other on the OS, if they so choose -- for port battles, this mechanic will be set aside and all pirates will be on the same team.

There's always been something of a problem of too many dedicated PvPers all going to the pirate team. As a pirate, the result is you can spend a lot of time on the OS looking at all the other pirates, with nobody to fight. As a national, the result is it can be tough to put a toe into the red zone without being swarmed by pirates, mandating 6-man groups.

Pirate vs pirate would give Mark hunters a lot more targets to choose from and maybe thin out the swarm enough for more nationals to start hunting each other in the red as well.



I see this idea as a way to increase PvP across the board.

[Vin Vega]

I would play my pirate toons if that was somehow possible.

[Slevin MacKnife]

pirates should never have been 1 nation anyway tbh....they shouldve either been split into 2 factions so they had someone irrelevant to raid with/against, or been the same as other nations

[Ulot]

Massive signed, this would be hawt.

Of course, Teddro would be screwed, as every pirate would join where he isn't.

[mud117]

I actually like this idea.

Maybe (thinking out loud) have them tie in to rep. Have Sea Dogs be the starting faction with limited doable stuff (no war, carebear area). Then the Brethren, Men of War, and Smuggler's Union would be three mini-nations inside of the Rats. They could theoretically unite for PBs to fight off the Nats, but still kill each other the rest of the time.

Not sure if my idea would be decent or take too much to code or something, but I think its cool.

[chado]

Good idea, but its been suggested and ignored enough times to indicate that it would be as hard to implement as one would think.

[brendonoid]

If I could team kill other pirates I would play this game again!

[CptFill]

This is really epic idea!!!! I would like sink other who splited me, blocked me, screwed me...etc

[Graendithas]

This has been brought up over and over and over and over.. The devs just don't listen to the community. They do what they want to do. This would be excellent for game play. This really needs to be put into the game, no doubt.

[KeithBain]

/signed

I like this idea. Never seemed right that the Pirates were grouped into a nation size population. Maybe give them their own lil bit of rvr objectives for Pirate nation victory.. while still being a factor in nation rvr/pvp in terms of raiding ports and sinking nationals.

Great idea!!