Lets just start this off with a confession. I am a Carebear. Apparently because I would prefer to be earning cash, exploring everything the game has to offer, touring the amazing locations CiG has created, learning the most profitable ways to haul and mine whilst not getting a crimestat, learning the safest routes so I don't lose my cash, helping folks who have run out of fuel or stranded, figuring out the best mining spots, wondering what the ideal mix of materials would be to make the strongest hull plating is, crewing up and participating in various missions to improve my rep and progress in the game, I am a Carebear. Carebears supposedly cry about how unfair everything is or how hard the game is or how their gameplay isn't in. So I guess I'll do that. Every week it seems like these "Piracy not perfect" posts pops up, for about 6 years as CiG focuses heavily on combat, dog fighting combat, large ship, combat missions, flight model fixes for dog fighting, improvements to pirate bases, improvements to bounty hunting, way to break into ships, ways to clear / avoid crime stats, ways to improve fps gameplay, various hauler and miner gameplay implementations & balances, dedicated cargo / refining stations to group up miners / haulers in 1 place, weapon balances, more and more combat ships & single seat fighters, an entire new star system dedicated to piracy, huge server wide events for pirates. Yet every week we get more and more of these posts about how CiG is ignoring piracy gameplay. large groups of pirates complaining about how unfair things are, about how their gameplay isn't working properly, about how hard the game is. Now I have no problem with piracy, all these improvements have improved the game overall. The risk of having pirates around every corner or finding the route I take to cross the galaxy adds some excitement to an otherwise fairly dreary cargo run. Even more so if they actually interact as a pirate and don't just KoS. My problem is that while these hard as nails pirates are complaining about their game being too hard or not being able to "long range emp disable, dock, gas the crew inside, teleport all the cargo onto their ships because otherwise their gameplay is not complete". I'm sat here after 6 years wondering what the state of my gameplay is? Industrial gameplay, Science gameplay, racing, touring, exploration, construction, medical.. ect ect. it doesn't even exist! So please from one Carebear to another, stfu. Some of us poor sods have been patiently waiting for their gameplay to come online whilst you've been ganking prospectors for the lolz for years. Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.