Pirates = Looters

[BGrey]

XR pirates stop to collect the loot of their victims so I'd imagine that X4 will have improvements over the purely homicidal approach X3 too.

Have you observed this happening? I do remember the introduction of move.plunder, but sadly I still only ever see "Marauder" ships spawn 20km out from a station and feed themselves to the targon tracers. To know the plundering is happening as intended somewhere would make me very pleased.

I did see this happening in Albion/Ascendancy in the zone with the capital shipyard, can't recall the name. A Rahanas was collecting cargo containers from another dead capital. They also have a warehouse so I assume they bring loot there?

I was trying to repair my standings with the sovereign syndicate to check but doing several of their missions hasn't moved my standing from -26, is it not possible?

I was glad to see this behavior and the warehouse added as it gave them a bit more life beyond suicide into station guns, even if that seems to be their main purpose still. I hope x4 can give them a bit more meaning.

[Earth Ultimatum IV.]

Pirates in rebirth definitely do steal wares, to some degree.

Had a Titurel in Home of Light attacking my miner Midir, before I arrived to help the midir was already dead. Upon my arrival I saw the pirate Titurel with a swarm of Cargolifter drones, picking up the dropped cargo.

Of course, I boarded the titurel and sold it to make up for the loss