Here's my take on this. Most of the pirates RP just fine and they're not inconsiderate at all. The purpose of some faction is to disrupt trade routes, ask for money, ... I even had pirates giving me the choice of how much I wanted to pay and it was always enough.
BUT:
There is a new tendency in the server and I've seen this several times now. It's a group of 3 to 4 people sitting in a system and they're not pirates or anything, it seems that they made up those chars for whatever purpose. One time I saw a Outcast IFF in an outcast cruiser accompanied by 2 freelancers trying to rob people. Seen another group mixed out of Junkers and Freelancers robbing people, and they're not just explaining their cause, since they don't have one - hence Junkers/Freelancers - and the Junkers running around in Kusari too. I believe this is just to annoy folks and has nothing to do with RP in my opinion since RP is NOT: GIVE ME MONEY OR DIE. There should be a reason for give me money.
Those groups using Freelancers usually have one IFF which is allowed to pirate, so they are not directly involved in it. Means it's just a way around the rules. Same thing applies to K'Hara and A/) grouped in a system, what's that all about???
So the conclusion is: RP server my a.. - Everybody does whatever they want and get away with it because it's still within the rules. So why have an RP server if such a behaviour kills role play in the long run. No surprise that the server gets less and less attention. I remember when 200 people played on the weekends.
And this is not raving, it's the facts about what's happening mainly in regards to pirating.
On the other hand I had pirates with a really cool role play, unfortunately that's the exception.
