by Big Brother » Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:40 am
Ah, but you don't get this part. You don't NEED to have all the fancy gizmos to gain in this game. You must realize (hopefully), that while those big, strong, wealthy players may have the big, strong, expensive ships. How do they stay big and powerful? By having traders to keep their gold up of course. All the big names in this game got their big ships not from plundering, but from trading. You have to have traders to keep your gold up. So, us "lower level" players may not have large, expensive ships, but we have the good ships, the ones that can weaken and even destroy the big names for cheap. We just know how to play smart. Traders are a weakness, and the big ships (without the traders) are weakened by the cost that you must pay to keep them. Stolen traders just shouts the phrase "I AM STEALING BECAUSE I AM WEAK" among other phrases.
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