(12-17-2013, 04:16 PM)Jack_Henderson Wrote: Food for thought: If you get a lot of silent traders / minimal rp, perhaps you can ask yourself: "Could it be that my rp is not good enough to earn any/much of a reaction?"
After 3 years, around 2000 hours on transports and many hundred pirate encounters, I can only say: "You are treated as you treat others".
"If you meet a jerk, you met a jerk. If everyone you meet is a jerk, you are the jerk."
I have been trading and pirating on this server for a very long time now.
Maybe it's because I avoid Liberty, but I don't run into to many pirates who are just out for blues, or traders who do nothing but run. The few pirates like that I've met, well, respawn, buy new cargo, head to a different area.
The traders that I meet who do nothing but run, don't actually bother me. I consider myself a very good pirate. That doesn't make it easy. You have to;
stop the trade ship
Not let the trader get away while you are typing
not get blown up by the "omygodwhy" swarms of NPCs
not get blown up by the battleship friend the trader called
Try to have some form of conversation with the trader
And still somehow decide what a reasonable demand is.
Make a demand
As a trader, I don't ask for the pirate's life story, and as a pirate, I don't want the trader to dawdle.
You have two conflicting motivations, in a high stress environment. It is just a game, and life will go on.
I do wish saying "kill me it's cheaper" was sanctionable though. These are multi-million credit starships. Saying that should automatically turn your ship into a starflea escape pod.
e; also, pirate with a transport, or a friend in a transport. Even the silent traders will net you a little bit of profit.
