It depends on who has a larger profit margin, the shipping companies or the pirates. If a random 5% of freighters are armed heavily enough to destroy or captur

It depends on who has a larger profit margin, the shipping companies or the pirates. If a random 5% of freighters are armed heavily enough to destroy or capture a pirate vessel, the pirates have to be making enough profit for a total loss in 1 of 20 raids to be worth it.