There came up in another thread quite interesting viewpoints about pirating and prices and customs. I'd like all the pirating factions to answer these questions if they can. Or if you have a rule in place or modus operandi. Also there's discussion going on if pirating = taxing. For the sake of clarify I define that pirating is done on ships carrying cargo and taxing is done on empty ships.
1) Who do you pirate? Trader IDed or all?
2) What ship categories do you pirate? Do you pirate fighters carrying cargo?
3) Do you tax empty running traders?
3a) If you tax them for a right of passage do you protect them? Or give them a time limit?
4) If you use fee tables then state them here.
So if you have any guidelines set for pirating in your faction then please state them. And if you are just a rag-tag collection of pirates I think it would benefit your faction to define basci set of rules just for you.
