Piracy according to the rules

[Xoria]

In RP a character would rather pay 2mil out of his 50 than running 750k into the unknown. with pirate on his heels.

You are assuming that every character is a completely rational decision maker.
Good roleplaying does not necessarily mean rational decision making at all times.
There is no such thing as a person who is a totally rational decision maker. Not in real life, and not in Sirius.
You are also not taking into account that the financial bottom line may not be a character's primary motivation. In the real world people take risks, and sometimes the consequences are deadly and could have been easily avoided. It should be no different in Sirius.
I tried to pirate a trader yesterday, but he slipped through the trade lane just as I cut it. I fired off a demand line, and he actually waited for me at the jump gate, not because he wanted to throw away some cash, but because I gave him a unique sentence instead of a "2million". I was in a single LF, he was in an Adv Train. There were at least half a dozen hostile NPCs doing their best to kill me at the jump gate, and I had to type one-handed while constantly evading. There is no question that he could have run, and escaped, or fought back and killed me or escaped, but he sat there and we had a very good pirate-trader dialogue. His behavior was completely irrational from any financial standpoint, but not from the standpoint of trying to have a fun time playing this game.
The point of all this is to have fun, and sometimes that means the player must force his character to behave irrationally in order to have more fun that he would otherwise. Sometimes that may mean making the pirate's job easier, sometimes it may be the opposite.
If "good roleplaying" results in less fun for everyone involved, then what's the point? If I want "a completely realistic experience" then I'll immerse myself in real life. But real life often isn't as rewarding or fun as the product of our imaginations.
"Good Roleplaying" is behavior that results in everyone leaving the encounter after having some fun.
"Bad Roleplaying" satisfies no one, ultimately.

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