Well, we've already seen a lot of discussion about how some corps plan to "Tora! Tora! Tora!" all the time in order to make money.

The plan goes, IIRC:

Attack once, win. Get biomass payout from a fully laden district.
Attack someone else.

Discuss:

Will mechanics allow mercenaries of New Eden to partake in methods of wealth that exist in Eve?

For instance, how would Dust 514 mercenaries fulfill a role in a pirate corp? How could mercs prey on the weak or ambush like pirates would in Eve? I can see Dust Mercs being semi applicable to all kinds of corps. But just not pirates. How could mercs lie in wait?

attack their district. kill their clones. take 50% of their gear home with you. take whatever clones are left over.

dust piracy.

That's a kinda lame piracy don't you think? Where's the badass stuff? The looting of EVE ships, the trap setting, the hidden treasure?

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Pillage approach? Interesting. Have you ran all the maths and included the multiple strikes it takes to down even an undefended district? Or does the thinking rely on probabilities of the flipped districts not getting turned back the next day?

I haven't run the maths myself, I just remember people talking about how it could profitable to attack districts with high clone counts without trying to actually conquer the district, just trying for a high kill rate.

Please no, Piracy needs to be more than just about KDR. There needs to be some ransom involved, it can't just be for the killmail otherwise we'll have nothing but simple-minded pirates who just kill for the mails.

Piracy in Dust should be more about interdiction of assets, not attacking just to kill lots of clones, but interdicting clone deliveries or the shipment of industrial goods from one district to another.

Personally, I think that Piracy should be PvPvE, think of it like this.

Say for example, we can extract X material from a planet, but in order for it to be processed into Y material, it needs to be shipped to another district. This shipping could occur via air, ship, train, truck, whatever, though it should be Drone controlled. Pirates attack the drone controlled convoy and the drones fend them off as best they can until clone reinforcements arrive to defend their assets. If the pirates are quick enough to loot and flee before reinforcements arrive or are able to fight off the defenders, then they get their loot. Otherwise, they DIAF, either way, it is better than just simply being a pirate for the mails/tears.

you touch on it in your last post but you really need free roam FPS to make piracy truly work.

Raiding parties onboard ships are kind silly unless its a specific game mode limited to hand hand combat or the like i think. Unless its a titan i want to board and raid a titan by sending a low orbit flyer from the ground send it to space breach said titan which should require its own dust mercenaries on standby to wormhole in.

Now a battles is being fought on the ground, the air, and inside a large ship which either gets destroyed, or taken over at which point the capsuleer is dead and gone and a friendly capsuleer is wormholed in. (but yea that will make people freak if you let that much influence in a F2P on a P2P).

wonder if dust players will have a security status.