(02-25-2016, 05:12 PM)Findarato Veneanar Wrote: You loss your cargo, you are better off telling them to just kill you, because it's faster then continuing on the route, that way you can pick up a fresh load instantly, don't bother to rp, just tell them to kill you or run into the nearest planet or ignore them until they kill you, they want to ruin your run and waste your time, also do this if they ask for the price that you would get for selling the cargo if you are not close to the dropoff point because it saves a bit of time.
The attitude that is killing the server is allowing pirates to be ****s to traders.
We didn't have this problem back in the day when there were strict demand limits, as soon as those were gotten rid of pirates started demanding 5 mil, 10 mil, often even more, since then all pirates have wanted is blue messages, before that they were great, they'd demand a few mil, you'd pay, and everyone would be happy because everyone got a few credits and no one had all their time wasted.
This is a roleplaying server. That means when you're ingame, you're supposed to be playing the role of that character. You wouldn't sacrifice your 200 million credit ship, your life, and your crew's lives just because a pirate demanded that you give him all your cargo. You would give him what you have, cut your losses, and thank whatever god you pray to that you still have your life.
And I'm not sure what "back in the day" means because there's never been strict demanding rules. People have always demanded 5-20 million credits on ore traders and 2-10 on non-ore traders. I would actually say that there were more trollpirates back in the "good old days" than there are now. Back then there were more traders going through specific systems, so you could quickly get an interaction where you can demand a trader to drop his cargo or shoot it, or demand that he sits still while you shoot off all of his guns. These days it's harder to find traders, so you're not going to waste the 40 minutes you've been sitting in a system on a 5 second interaction because the trader instantly said no to your trolly demand.
Yes, trollpirates are bad, but silent traders are worse. At least the trollpirates were giving interactions on the server, and you could deal with them with a nice group of lawfuls. You can't do anything with a silent sundiving trader. The pirates gave activity to lawful factions, the sundivers just waste everybody's time
