(12-17-2013, 07:04 PM)Markus_Janus Wrote: Well I guess since he is a true pirate and wishes my empty transport captain to wire funds directly to his smart saver account at the local bank, he is out of luck and will have to continue on his way to the conclusion of his RP by killing me.
It is obvious at this point that I can not offer him some of my cargo to buy my way out, since I am empty and real pirates hardly ever accept booty as payment anyway since it would be harder for their accountant at tax time.
As I said previously I have tried an angle that would unfortunately take more than two lines of text for the pirate to be paid, it does not have a very good success ratio.
So that means he gets out of his RP quicker and I get to load up quicker.
Win/win I guess.
There has to be some balance. As a pirate, if it seems like there's little reason to rush off, longer RP is certainly more welcome. But it's up to the pirate, if he suspects he himself may fall in danger due to the encounter, he may demand some fast cash. And yes we all know we do our business via bank accounts. So if you drop a few lines of story thats fine, but you may also want to choose your battles. If you're in the middle of nowhere when you cross paths and know there's no one in the system, the pirate will probably be a little more relaxed and willing to lengthen the RP. But when you pirate in a populated area where an enemy ship could show up real fast, time is of the essence, which as much an inrp factor as oorp. Real pirates would probably want to be fast to avoid detection. It is a practical way of playing, and most pirates have had those run ins where you try to RP a bit and the trader takes advantage of your typing to try to flee. The pirate is pretty much forced to abandon communication in order not to lose the encounter at that point, as all they may get out of it is a kill, since by running the trader has indicated they will not pay, and could very well escape. So use common sense. Personally when I'm in a hurry, I say something like,
"Cut your engines and remain where you are,
this is a raid, and I mean to be quick, see?"
"so you have XX seconds to transfer 3 million shiny credits to me or I open fire!"
That's pretty cut and dry, and obvious that the pirate is not wanting a long encounter. Thats the way it goes. Just because they don't want to hang around vulnerable doesn't mean all hope for RP is lost, you can always go with something like
"sorry, my coil emissions are overloading my computer core processors, this will take a moment". This brings us back to the original point of the thread, if the trader at that point at least replies and acknowledges me, I'll give them the extra time to comply. If they wanna talk during that time, they can, and maybe i'll play along. But there will be times when a Pirate will draw a line and demand the payment be made or else, it doesnt take forever.
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