Annoying Pirates

[Karst]

Several years ago was more pirates, but they were not so greedy 2mil was enough to pay them, now they want min. 5 mil for each, if they are in group it is going to be expensive.

Well this is only natural - inflation is a real thing in disco. More money gets added to the economy than gets permanently removed (in the form of selling ships and equipment to npcs.

Not to mention the .87 economy buff, traders simply make more money than they used to.

An advice: do not use lanes and gates, don't trust colors on the radar, everyone is an enemy. watch your radar and don't get closer.

Sure, you can do this and avoid pirates entirely, but why would you want to do that?
It seems kind of lame to me to go out of your way to deny any and all pirates an interaction.
Piracy is part of the game and although inrp pirates are a trader's enemy, oorp'ly they're players trying to enjoy the game, just like you.
(that is assuming they aren't simply griefers wishing to make other peoples' game experience miserable - those sadly exist, and they're no better than silent/ragey traders)

This is not directed just at you, but generally towards certain people that seem to wish that piracy didn't exist at all.
Edit: Personally, I enjoy most pirate encounters when trading. If they never happened, trading would be boring as hell.

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