mothwentbad: The one thing I'd definitely change: I'd seriously nerf the ability to land on a planet and repair every time someone takes heat. It just isn't cool how it's almost impossible to hunt pirates even if you radio for help from 5 traders. Maybe late in the game you get crazy weapons that do 8x as much damage or something, or maybe there's a way to hold your fire and lure them away from all the planets... but mostly this just needed a serious nerf, like some kind of alignment-based landing restriction when you've been in combat recently or something. They should at least have to outrun you before they can discretely land someplace with none the wiser for their antics.

gooberking: Maybe you could hunt them in a text quest if they land. That could be one way to do it, all though I do tend to avoid the text quests.

mothwentbad: That would be pretty interesting, though I imagine it would get really easy and really repetitive, seeing how easy it would be to farm the quest until you memorized it. Then again, they could reserve this for specific, nefarious, government-issued targets.

It's only fair if they can do it to you too, of course.

A mini-game might be more fun, though. I'm not exactly what form it would take. But then you would still be taking a risk when you land, especially when outnumbered.

gooberking: A FPS hunting mode pop's to mind, but that sounds like it would just be a watered down version of something we have done a thousand different ways, and therefore sounds like a horrible idea. I'm not sure there is a great solution, but the restricted landing idea seems to be the simplest and most elegant option.