Something disturbing I have noticed during my pirate-trader interactions

[Black Widow]

Alright, this is really a conspiracy worthy thing I got going here :|
Just hear me out.


Okay, so you know I favor unlawful characters over my lawful ones. Something that caused most my interactions to be very one sided and I never noticed this as much until now. I prefer to fly my unlawful junker, my pirate IDs and my rogues and xenoses...xenosai...xenos..es...anyway.

Needless to say, encountering silent traders was always a thing, but I never really thought it was a big deal. I rarely pirate for the RP, because that is not where I get that satisfaction from. I mostly pirate for some cheap income and the blue messages. So no biggy.

However, even then we had all those threads discussing how piracy is meh and how all the encounters are the same, how pirates are all 2milordie and how traders are silent.

You know, never once I thought that it was odd that you could by flying that 5ker for months and not learn how to act during piracy. Until now.



Okay.




What if I told you. There is a certain and growing group of players on Disco, vets mostly, who do this silent treatment on purpose.

In other words, they have boycotted piracy as a player interaction.

That there is a growing group of players, who ''came here for the RP'' and find piracy as a ''unavoidable, destructive one sided player interaction which is fun only for the pirates''.



I noticed this only when I started to fly my lawfuls and encountered these people on the other side of the law. I suddenly found myself exchanging paragraphs of high quality and fun roleplay between those traders on my LN or LPI indies. Once I encountered them on my pirate, they would be silent and try to cruise away without a word. Or fire back, whenever I attacked them after they ignored my piracy demands.

You know, I believe nobody has the right to force their RP on others. But this is border-lining with using F1 to avoid player interaction.

The worst part is that they are not ignoring the character. They are ignoring the PLAYER because he has a pirate character. These people are developing a very unhealthy out of roleplay dislike for any player flying an unlawful char, something that imho has no place in our community.

Funnily enough, I am sure other newer players will read this and go all "yeah, that sounds like a good idea.". Well, that sucks. Tho, quite frankly, it matters not. Just start writing down names of supposedly ''silent traders'' and see if they regain the ability to RP once you encounter them on a different character.

I have encountered this a lot and when it happens I take their silence inRP and respond as though I think he is just stalling for time while he calls for back up. With which I then reply inRP with a demand for them to hurry up and pay or be destroyed, coz quite simply why should you sit there like a lemon while the trader calls for help only for you to get to killed and him to get away when he didn't even acknowledge you existed.

inRP pirating must be quick anyway the longer you take to rob a bank the more likely you are to get caught, the best way to combat silent traders who you know aren't gonna say anything to you is to hurry the interaction up don't give them enough time inRP to call for back up, apply pressure and keep applying while keeping your eye on the clock.

If they stay silent then you can take that as refusal to pay and blow them up, if they are talking but you think they are stalling for time. Hurry the interaction up give them 20 - 30 secs to pay if they don't blow them up.

A no-nonsense approach is what is needed for silent traders if they refuse to interact, you have to make them believe they will die before any help arrives and that silence really isn't golden!!