New Piratey Idea

While trying to stake out as a pirate a few things became apparent. First, Without a fence your not going to get far. Second, life as a pirate is rough, dangerous and generally not rewarding enough to merit the risk. Now, I might just be unlucky but finding a fence took me an hour to find ONE who would buy raw ore. So with a fence in mind, I headed out hired a hauler and headed to an ore processing plant. Now, I didn’t really notice the “lack” of traffic until I was actually looking for someone to rob. After waiting at the plant for about five minutes a small freighter came in with an escort. I scanned the goods and sure enough it was ore. While avoiding the escorts I pounded the freighter until it dropped the pods and ordered mine to pick them up. After leading the escorts on a wild goose chase(of which I got hit pretty hard) I LSDed off with my hauler, pods in tow. However, much to my dismay the fence was long gone. Cursing to myself I started another search that lasted roughly 30 minutes before I gave up. Now I am not sure if fences are supposed to be so rare, but spending an hour and half searching for a fence to offload 10 pods wasn’t really that fun.

And so that leads me to my new “idea” which is simply a new type of base, a pirate base. It would typically be well hidden in an asteroid field or a nebula (like lucreticas) and would be a place for pirates to mingle. Depending on the amount of activity in the system it would have pretty heavy traffic (as it would be a hub for pirate activity in that area) The base would buy stolen goods, BUT at a reduced price compared to the fence(but higher than the scrapper) I would think for 1/2 to 3/4 of what the fence would pay. The base would also buy all types of pirated goods and would regularly sell the pods to fences who would launder them. These bases should be pretty rare and hard to find and shouldn’t be located in the more secure government sectors. A base like this could have all sorts of things happen to it. From government raids, bounty hunters attacking to smuggling operations, blockades of L-points etc.

Now if you took the time to read all that, I salute you! If not, here is a Simplification:
-Make fences more numerous and easier to find
-Increase traffic (maybe make this a toggle so as to not effect lower end specs)
-A piratey base, which would be a hub of pirate activity
-Missions for the piratey base

“Better to die now with honor, than to live with shame.”