' Wrote:I have to agree, if you don't like it and don't have a useful concept or idea to change it, but can't really live with it, the dore is over there.

' Wrote:This is funny. Well, not funny. Mostly pathetic. Lets talk about it.

So you're transporting Oxygen. Alright. I've done that, too. What ship are you flying? A 5k? A Container Transport? A Firefly? Borderworlds Transport? A slight indicator of wealth. Presumably, you're flying that somewhere to pick up something else. Maybe Light Arms. Maybe Gold. Maybe Superconductors. Maybe Artifacts. Maybe Engine Components. Who knows? I can presume it's going to make you profit eventually. Knowing trade routes, as an ardent trader myself, I know that I can trade 80% of the time without seeing a single pirate, not to mention those who are actually competent. With those kinds of odds, a trader's profit is a lot higher than mine.

So we're going to engage in some Roleplay. You're flying a ship which indicates that you're a very wealthy individual. I'm going to tax you five million credits because your ship is big and I know you must have money somewhere.

So now you're going to say that your cargo isn't worth that much. Well that's nice, but it's not in a pirate's Roleplay to care about how much your cargo is worth. I'm going to kill you. You think that's a great idea. As a person, I'm not too keen on exploding. It involves a lot of fire the human body potentially can't survive. But it's okay. There's a respawn button. We can forget how comfortable your character is in extreme heat and depressurization.

So you come back to the same place, minutes later, expecting the player to forget about his role and just let you pass. He decides he isn't going to let you go. He continues to play his role and demands more money from you. You repeat the above. After a few times of this, during which the pirate has engaged you in Roleplay multiple times, you break roleplay to PM him an insult clearly aimed at the player and not the character.

Mind, I don't know who this was who pirated you or what happened, but theoretically speaking, I think you're an idiot.

' Wrote:This is funny. Well, not funny. Mostly pathetic. Lets talk about it.

So you're transporting Oxygen. Alright. I've done that, too. What ship are you flying? A 5k? A Container Transport? A Firefly? Borderworlds Transport? A slight indicator of wealth. Presumably, you're flying that somewhere to pick up something else. Maybe Light Arms. Maybe Gold. Maybe Superconductors. Maybe Artifacts. Maybe Engine Components. Who knows? I can presume it's going to make you profit eventually. Knowing trade routes, as an ardent trader myself, I know that I can trade 80% of the time without seeing a single pirate, not to mention those who are actually competent. With those kinds of odds, a trader's profit is a lot higher than mine.

So we're going to engage in some Roleplay. You're flying a ship which indicates that you're a very wealthy individual. I'm going to tax you five million credits because your ship is big and I know you must have money somewhere.

So now you're going to say that your cargo isn't worth that much. Well that's nice, but it's not in a pirate's Roleplay to care about how much your cargo is worth. I'm going to kill you. You think that's a great idea. As a person, I'm not too keen on exploding. It involves a lot of fire the human body potentially can't survive. But it's okay. There's a respawn button. We can forget how comfortable your character is in extreme heat and depressurization.

So you come back to the same place, minutes later, expecting the player to forget about his role and just let you pass. He decides he isn't going to let you go. He continues to play his role and demands more money from you. You repeat the above. After a few times of this, during which the pirate has engaged you in Roleplay multiple times, you break roleplay to PM him an insult clearly aimed at the player and not the character.

Mind, I don't know who this was who pirated you or what happened, but theoretically speaking, I think you're an idiot.

' Wrote:There are very very very few people who RP properly.

' Wrote:I dare to say there are many people who roleplays properly, but few who can understand roleplay and accept it as roleplay, if it does not go how they planned.

Silent trader, who does not talk with pirates? Why would he if he is not willing to be pirated and attempts to run by surprise and suceeds it? He avoided loss of profit or ship's destruction. Roleplay action had positive roleplay consequence.

Chatty pirate decided, that he wants to chat with trader, and to his surprise, being all nice and such, gets military on his back, because trader was calling back up at that time. Rolplay action that led to roleplay consequence.

' Wrote:Chatty pirate decided, that he wants to chat with trader, and to his surprise, being all nice and such, gets military on his back, because trader was calling back up at that time. Rolplay action that led to roleplay consequence.

' Wrote:How is that a consequence? So pirate dont get paid, but had the nice chat. 2 Win, everybody happy. I'm curious - how many times raids were succesfull in a pirates life? I would call this fun. And it's pretty cool way of making clear statements. :cool:

' Wrote:Having written wall of text does not mean player is good roleplayer. He might simply have writing talents.

Roleplay is carrying out your role.

Pirate - pirating.
Greedy pirate - pirating hard.
Chatty Pirate - Chatting piracy.
etc.

I would not even call engagment notice as good roleplay if two mortal enemies are fighting.

We cannot really judge roleplay without bias, as it looks different to all of us.

What one calls 2 million demand a good roleplay, might mean he likes the fairplay.
Another person might say he would have demanded twice as much, since that would be what his pirate character's role is.