Peoples mentality about Piracy demands baffles me..

[TomMorse]

Well sometimes you have to say "2milordai" because simple questions such as "How much is your life/cargo worth to you" baffle a lot of traders. "2milordai" is ALWAYS my opening line, for the sake of simplicity and declaring my intentions clearly.

What bothers me though are those traders that refuse to pay out of principle, because that forces me as a pirate to either do douchy things (such as blowing up the insolent trader) or suspend all roleplay and let the guy go out of my good (player) heart.

As for the 12 million and full cargo in the original post; yeah a trader isn't likely to pay 12 million based on just his expectation of profit when he reaches his destination - what if another pirate is waiting in the next system asking for another 12 million?

Not long ago, I read a post on this forum about "Trust" being a valuable commodity. If you don't TRUST that trader you encounter by actually RPing, you have no soapbox to stand on when he ignores you and flies away or refuses to pay. If I encounter you (ships name is The.Grand.Illusion, and you open up with that, heres how it will go down:

You: 2milordai

Me: //Are you serious?

You: 2millordai!!!

Me: //3 days....

//3 days I have been flying up and down this trade route...

//3 days of boring trading, no player interaction outside of "Koneecheewaa" (yes, I know its spelled wrong, I spent 2 years in Okinawa IRL, THAT is what another player actually said to me), "hello", or "greetings"...

//I FINALLY encounter a pirate, and the extent of your roll play is "2millordai"?!

//SCREW you! Im LEAVING! If you want my money, next time give ME some better roll play.

FIN.

I'm NOT kidding. If I encounter ANY pirate that wants my money, I will NOT pay him, YES, OUT OF PRINCIPLE, if the extent of his roll play is "2millordai".

Please do not misunderstand. Im not judging you. Perhaps I have not been playing long enough, and have not yet become jaded by the lack of effort from other players to take this RP concept seriously, or by the games design flaws, or whatever, but I will NEVER treat RP in this game so disdainfully, no matter WHAT the rest of the community does. If I did, I would only be adding to the problem.