pirate demands (again)

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Back on topic...........

Last night, I was flying a base construction ship (full) and was pirated by an official faction member who demanded that I drop the whole lot. I tried to negotiate, but got killed. I was more than happy to pay, cos that's part and parcel, but I got the distinct impression that whoever it was did it purely to pee me off, cos of the time it takes to amass that cargo. After all, it's not worth that much.

I suppose there's a chance they wanted to build a base themselves, but I doubt it.

Not cool. Really not cool.

Just a tip: Move ur BCP to the destination place, but haul all the pob stuff in different ships. Then just ask someone you know to move it from transport to BCP. That's how we did it in the past. Usually if people see you wflying with full pob stuff, they will want the whole sheep, but I've met indie Hessians in the past and managed to leave just for 2mil after some RP Try to RP, try to talk, talk even if pirate doesn't want to talk. Talk him to death and he will demand lower amount of stuff if he isn't a troll.

And in reply for that:

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.

Whoa. I've been here for, like, twelve seconds, and I can tell you that you're playing the game wrong.

You can't win at Disco (just like my Uncle Bruce used to say about the seventies ). It's not like the person with the most credits at the end of the month gets a free t-shirt. (edit: I assume... even though that would be awesome)

Personally, I've been running the Gallic blockade of Leeds for three days, and literally no one has even tried to stop me. Profitable, but boring as all getout. So I guess all those poor refugees are going to be left stranded while I go look for some resistance to my making buckets of cash. It's just more fun that way.

I will quote that

If you think about it... The best solution would be adding:

"Can demand cargo of maximum amount equal his free cargo space or less"

to piracy based IDs

Why? Because asking to drop 5k while you own only a bomber makes no sense inRP.

if they're flying in group:

"... or equal total free cargo space of allied vessels up to 5k away from pirate"

Limiting max amount of credits that single pirate can demand to 8 or 10 m would be a heaven as well.