=Pirating= Pirates ==One of the activities you can enjoy while playing Vendetta is pirating. Pirating is an accepted aspect of Vendetta. Pirating people in a nations space is not wise, as this will cause your standing to plummet. Pirating happens most often in sectors that have a wormhole but don't have a station. When you partake in pirating, you need to consider what ships to pirate, and what ship to pirate in.
So ==Ships to Pirate==There are many ships in the world of Vendetta, some are multi purposed, some made for fighting, and some made to transport cargo. The ships you want to know about pirates. Okaypirate are, of course, well the first thing transport classes. There are several transport ships out there and aspects of them that need to remember be put into consideration when pirating. But beware because when a transport vessel has at least one large port, there is that not all pirates are created equala possibility of a gattling turret or mines needs to be considered. Pirates There are usually other playersseveral types of mines out there that can, and as such encounter with most likely will come your way adventuly (how do you spell this wretched word?!), better to learn about them can be variedhere before you learn it while in pursuit. For example*A proximity mine is your basic mine, some pirates it will try sit in space happily until its short range sensors detect something, once its sensors detect a ship it will detonate itself, causing your ship damage and to be polite as they extort sums pushed off course. The range of money from youits sensors is quite short, about 80 meters. They may even try to sound official*A concussion mine is never used for damaging a player, as it causes 0 damage. Instead, like "By official order of the SASconcussion mine will, you are fined when detonated, exert a sum very large amount of $25force on all ships within the blast radius,000 credits." Other pirates may simply state "Yarr.causing the ships to be thrown of course.." because The force exerted is the same on all ships, except ships with more mass will take longer to recover from it's faster .*A lightning mine is very dangerous and can kill ships who decide to type, hang around it. The lightning mine is equipped with a large battery and much more funsophisticated sensors than the other mines. Also, they The sensors are probably too busy shooting at you able to type anything more informativedetermine wether or not ships within range are hostile.The lightning mine utilizes a weapon that causes pure energy to arch from itself to an enemy ship which causes 1000 damage per second and will keep firing until the ship is not within range, the mine is destroyed, or the mine's energy is depleted and self-destructs. So, anywho, onto the prey!===Atlas===Some pirates First, we have the [[Ships:Atlas|Atlas]], this is the first transport class ship that players get access to. The main variant can contain ++ cargo and other variants can hold up to ++. The atlas is outfitted with one small weapon port and one large weapon port. There really is not much to say about the Atlas except that it is a 'code' of sortslow level trading vessel and fairly easy prey, which implies standardized behaviorthere are much better space fish in the universe. But ===Centaur===The next ship is the truth [[Ships:Centaur|Centaur]], this transport vessel can hold ++ units of cargo and the matter other variants can hold up to ++ units of cargo. The Centaur is that anything goesconstructed with one small port and two large ports, allowing it to launch two mines at once. If A popular configuration with transport vessels that have two or more large weapon ports is to launch a concussion mine to get you choose disorientated and to run, launch swarmer missiles. Swarmer missiles are a pirate may give chasetype of missile that carry a small payload individually, or they may notbut the launcher launches 8 missiles per round. If This increases the chance of a missile hitting you give in and pay , if all missiles hit you it can cause large amounts of damage.===Marauder===The third transport ship is the money[[Ships:Marauder|Marauder]], there one of the best transport ships that retains agility. The standard Marauder is no guarantee that better than the pirate won't shoot you anywayCentaur, or try except for its superior agility. Of course, there are other variants of the marauder that increases its cargo space up to extort from you again on 60. Most variants are outfitted with three small ports and no large ports, but there is a variant that is outfitted with one small port and one large port which was designed for mining. This variant is also the return tripone with the most cargo of the marauder class transports. After allThe Marauder can hold its own in battle when wielded by the right people, so be sure you are dealing aren't attacking a person who is known for their superior skill in fighting with a criminalheavy ship. On ===Behemoth===The last transport ship is the other handappropriately named [[ships:Behemoth|Behemoth]]. This ship is indeed a huge transport, some pirate encounters with space for 120 cargo it can prove barely fit into a dock. This transport class is an easy to be beneficialhit target, but it has very thick armoring which can take large amounts of damage. Pirates have The behemoth does not come with superior weapons than the centaur as all of its space has been known dedicated to its massive cargo holds, thick armoring, and very powerful engines. In fact, its space for weapons is less than the Centaur, as it comes with two large ports. Destroying this ship without a partner has proven quite difficult, it's huge amounts of armor allows it to take new recruits from time considerable amounts of damage and the very efficient engines can be powered indefinitely by a Fast Charge Battery. It is possible to timetake out the Behemoth by yourself though, or they may know of profitable trade routesone tactic has proven fairly effective. Payment of their extortion demands could also gain you This tactic uses a temporary escort if you are Warthog class attack ship, in the large port goes a smooth enough talkerjackhammer (or screamer) class rocket launcher and the small port has a Neutron MkII (preferably MkIII). Take You use the rocket launcher to knock the behemoth off course, it all with a grain will need to drop out of salt turbo in order to readjust, and this is when you use your Neutron blaster to attack it, when it is about ready to turbo again fire another rocket, rinse and repeat until desired effect is obtained.==Ships to Pirate With==While we have covered what ships to beat up like a good time piñata, we have yet to cover which ships to beat them up with yet. You can pirate encountersin any ship pretty much, as long as it has a weapon port, instead of going over every ship, we will go over the highlights of the ships. It's part ===Vulture===The Vulture is one of the gamemost popular fighter class ships used, and with its thin design it makes for a very good dodger. There are many variants that are far superior than the basic one. Most notable of the variants is supposed the [[Template:Factions:Corvus|Corvus]] Vulturius, this ship is one of the fastest fighters when in turbo, up to be fun240m/s. The Vulturius makes a great ship for chasing down ships that are running, of course this high speed comes at a cost, while in turbo the Vulturius will deplete the battery very quickly. All variants of the Vulture comes equipped with two small weapon ports, which is usually equipped with Neutron or Gauss cannons, depending on whether you want quantity over accuracy, or accuracy over quantity.===Warthog===Most pirates can be found in The [[gray spaceships:warthog|Warthog]]is very good for destroying the heavier transport ships, just place a rocket launcher into either the small weapon port or the large weapon port, and your energy weapon of choice in the other weapon port. You should, of course, never use the basic variant and explore the other options the universe has to offer. If you are afraid of being piratedcan fight quite well, then you should probably stick to use the cargo transport or mining variants, as these will let you take back more of your nationgoods from the remains of the ship. Also keep in mind turbo speed and the turbo's systems where energy consumption, you will want to be guarded from piratesable to catch your prey, but you also want to be able to attack it.===Behemoth===Surprise! The Behemoth is good for pirating, when hunting down a Behemoth having a partner along, in a Behemoth, is quite useful. He can add support fire, and when the enemy Behemoth explodes, he can pick up all the cargo and split the profit.