If the trader you're trying to get to give you money isn't, then you are doing something wrong. - not really ... these traders are generally the ones that don't role play much
Pirates aren't nice, pirates aren't pleasant. A nice and pleasant pirate won't ever get a credit from anyone. - beg to differ here ... when i tell them "500k if given freely or 2 mil if i gotta work for it" they usually stop and gladly pay the 500k ... some still run ... and i always say "thank you" :D
If every trader in the system a pirate is in doesn't run for the nearest exit the second they notice the pirate is in-system, the pirate isn't doing something right. - um ... not always ... if the trader freely pays ... he doesn't have to run
Traders are basically exempt from the pvp rules for a reason. Although I don't think the original reason was to help pirates, that is how pirates should use it. - very true ... but there are traders that freely will die and then come back to tell you that you cannot pirate them for 4 hours ... heard that one a few times ... also the reason for this rule is because traders continue trading the same routes so you can't really tell them to stay out of a particular system they've been killed in for 4 hours
Instead of trying to pirate every single trader you see, just pick one, and keep demanding money until he pays. Heck, double the payment every time you have to kill him. - done that ... i've let bigger targets go by just so I can teach a lesson to the ones that don't wanna play along
Or torture him. Shred his ship until almost dying, then let him do his run without trade lanes or cruise. I wish I thought of that one, but it is something pirates should do. - yup ... and follow them from port to port ... slows down their trading considerably
Look, to pirate right you are going to need to ruin someone's night. Then every time they see you they will pay up. - yup ... but there are the few that still F1 or dock-N-log
If a trader isn't scared to death of you, then he prolly won't pay you very easily. However if he knows you will destroy any chance he has of making money, he will pay you quite fast. - careful here ... there are traders that DO role play ... and they really like to pay the pirate that gives him/her a good bit of role play
' Wrote:All true.
But you did leave out the part about when the trader finally does save up his credits and buys his capship and then sits right on top of that pirate's base fragging anything and everything that comes his way just to pay back that pirate who robbed him. I've quit counting how many times I've seen that. It just goes with the territory I suppose.
I'll say dito to that Xoria ... can't count the number of times I've been threatened with "stay right here while I get my battle cruiser" ... or I come across a capship who tells me "next time leave my trader alone"
