Hello all, J.J. Musclethorpe here (your favorite wealth redistribution engineer) hoping to suggest a simple way to buff pirating without adversely affecting our fellow traders.
As you may or may not know, as a "pirate" we tend to carry quite a bit of equipment related to our trade; cargo scanners, interdictors, hatch breakers and the like, which leaves very little room for the precious booty! As such the most profitable loot of course are rare commodities, and in the latest patch, the less local the better.
Now on to the meat of the topic, I propose simply having any transport-type NPC's in super cruise (please not just in U.S.S.'s) have a high occurrence of carrying rare commodities from a considerable distance away. This would be a great filler for the downtime we of the wealth redistribution career path can have when it's off peak play time and supplement, if not drastically increase, the meager profits we currently earn.
Thanks for listening!
P.S.- Can we please see some innovation to hatch breaker technology. These things function poorly in all regards prior to latching on. Often struck and destroyed by the launching ship's fuselage and too slow to catch fast moving targets, even when launched from ahead of the target in question.