My concern, is I think some people need to learn to differentiate between "oorp" and being a bag of doosh as a player.
As I've mentioned before, it's actually "OORP" for a pirate to limit their demands because they don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
INRP, an actual pirate would take all of your cargo, all of your money, your ship, your crew, your family, your pot, and anything else they could get their hands on, then they would jettison you into space or sell you into slavery.
Now, that having been said, I am obviously against such behavior for obvious reasons (uhhh, its a game?), but I would just like people to start to recongnize the distinction.
That's all, carry on with the lulz.:D
"Actual" pirates do not demand too much money from the companies, because such things will result in them being killed and hunted by navy and private security groups. Yeah, thats happening right now to "real" pirates. If pirates in real life do stupid things like those you described, they are dead, simple as that. They want to make money. And live to spend it. Killing someone wont get you money, only a ****load of problems. And how often do you see actual pirates blowing up ships? ^^
See? Your fiew on pirates is different than mine. Buhu.