Peoples mentality about Piracy demands baffles me..

[Kentiah]

I'm completely new to Discovery (and Freelancer in general) so my opinion may not hold much weight. But, regardless of the fact that demanding the entirety of my cargo in cash is kinda... stupid, there's the fact that at best you only have "rights" to what you can carry of my cargo. In OP's example I lose 500k either way (regardless of if something goes down later on that causes me to die, or get pirated again in the case of paying 12 mil, which also wastes time anyway, as you'd have to complete your circuit instead of just going back from that point) however, in one, the pirate gets the full worth of my cargo in straight credit, and if he dies or something happens, he still has it, and now the trader has the burden of finishing the flight to sell just to break even and lose all their time.

The other example, the trader just throws out his cargo (maybe shoots it if he wants to just make the pirate made, or something) and the pirate can only carry what his ship can hold, giving him considerably less profit, and he now has the burden of having to sell the items himself, making the pirate use his time, instead of forcing the trader to take even more.

I'm just not sure why you think in any form of piracy ever, a pirate should ever get more than their ship can carry. Especially IRL, you're not exactly loading more than your boat can actually carry, you take what you can and leave. Why should you get the full value of it?

Regardless, like people said, it just sounds like you're ruining peoples time demanding a high amount of money, should you make a bit of money? Sure. I have no idea how long these paths take for traders to do money like 12 million, but if it takes, say, 30 minutes, and after 20 minutes you demand a good chunk of money relative to the amount of cargo you can even hold, I'd probably just try to be as inconsiderate as possible, as you're doing of me.

If I need to expand on a point or something I'll try, like I said, I'm pretty new, so my knowledge of the actual workings is pretty lacking, but I just don't see why anyone should ever demand more than they can hold in actual goods, and it should be less actual straight cash just because it saves you both time and trouble.