Something disturbing I have noticed during my pirate-trader interactions

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I really do not see how fraking with traders is any different from fraking with lawfuls on a pirate ID or vice-verse. Especially now, when attacking a goddamn Kamome with a cap5 and all Dulzian turrets is a mistake you only make once.

:| Seriously, fak those things.

In any case, whenever PVP is involved, there is always going to be a losing side and a winning side, whose joy is going to be on someone elses expense. The Pirate and Trader thing is such a big deal only because most traders cannot go toe to toe with a pirate. If they could, I doubt people would whine about it use it as an excuse or argument in these types of threads. Perhaps that was the reason why the trans turrets were buffed in 87 in the first place.

People fly traders to make money, other characters are flown for different reasons.
When people are killed on non trader characters, they lose absolutely nothing, while enjoying pew. !FUN! net gain is positive. When trader is killed, he was forced into one sided nofun pvp and lost very real time. !FUN! net gain is negative. While I do not believe this to be absolute truth, its 99% reason for trader whine.

I also find it funny how most common suggestion to traders is to study chat list to avoid pirates. You know, we play online to meet other people, not avoid them. In the current system trader is expected to avoid pirates by any means possible. If some system in multiplayer game is encouraging non-interaction this much, there is diffinitely something wrong with that system. Another fun thing is that several years ago there was annual forum whine thread "is using chat list for XXX ethical?". Times changed, I guess.

And Spazzy, you should be last person about whose quality of rp we argue. After all, you do have shitton of facts about your rp on YT. I only watched your single video, xenoindygogogo, but that gave me pretty good picture of what you think of rules, other peoples' rp and pvp fairness. Thats totally not accusation or anything, just my imho.

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When "roleplay" around you seems to be diminishing... all you can do is be a new beacon of roleplay to light up everyone else's interactions.