Salutations fellow gamers, President Pirate Lord Supreme Wakish the LXIX here - just wanted to chime in on the current state of the game from the perspective of a pirate. Over my 6 years of playing this game I've robbed every type of player and engaged in every type of piracy; I've robbed solo ROC miners, C2 haulers, mission enjoyers, event attenders, medics, and more and met tons of pirates that all enjoy their own unique brand of piracy Even though I know tons of pirates literally none of them are playing the game currently, when I ask them why most of them say one version or another of there being nothing to pirate any more and overwhelmingly the most common complaint I hear is that you can't loot player armor or weapons any more I mean yeah it's pretty lame. I used to kidnap players and throw them inside the 400i's component room which I used as the brig, I'd fly off at max speed and their crew would chase us to defend their honor and gear. Now that players can just backspace and keep all their things this doesn't happen any more. If someone is even minorly inconvenienced they just kill themselves and respawn, I mean why not? I know there are incoming changes to insurance but I just hope that I'll be able to take something of monetary value from someone and actually be able to use it myself. Like yeah sure you can insure your gear, but when I steal it from you I want you to have to pay the price to get it back - or come try your luck taking it from me I used to love taking someone's whole kit and then sometime one day, two days, even a week later, there will be some circumstance like my character being hungry and then I find a burrito in a pocket and think "Oh my god, this is from that guy I kidnapped last week - sick". The whole element of having a story is what made it cool. Wearing someone else's undersuit always felt kinda cool to me, like I was wearing another man's skin, seeing the world through their eyes Have you ever bumped into the original owner of an armor set at a station afterwards? Kinda awkward but super satisfying. I know CR flies the jolly rogers so I'm hoping there can be a positive change in the right direction here. R'amen