Pirates & Traders

[xiphos]

A transport has no need for bots, bats and munitions. You don't fight as a lonely transport. Your shields are strong enough to defend yourself from NPCs and you won't stand any chance in an encounter with a pirate, no matter how much bats and bots you have.

Sorry. But you are deadly wrong. I have around 890 Hours with my tradingship now and Bats and bots saved my life more than i can count. In the Niob Field in Leeds when i tried to run to Stokes from angry Bretonian fellas during the Kusari Bretonia war for example. So as long as you are not more than, let's say, 30k away from a Station a normal Transport is more than able to survive with Bats/Bots against a lonely pirate. In a Battletransport like the Akegata or Bison you are more than able to defend yourself. I guess you've never seen the [Convoy] dudes with their Shire's? Good old times.

"Kill me" and firing back does seem to be some sort of RP, maybe they thought they had a chance and nothing else to lose faced with that demand, plenty of transports do.

I have to disagree here. In this special case it's unacceptable. First a '?' then 'nop' , 'Spa' and then a 'kill me' ? Not to mention that a 'kill me' from a Transport Captain, who is responsible for his Corperations ship and who is clearly responsible for his crew's life, sounds not very in RP to me.



About the OP. Hell, I've seen worse RP or even no RP from a Trader. We all have seen something like this happen i guess. It happend in the past and it will happen in the future i am sure. There is really no need to make a thread like this about it. But here we are. Paying attention to it.

And to answer Toris question. No. First a '?' then 'nop' , 'Spa' and then a 'kill me' is not acceptable. And it shouldn't be. Like i mentioned above. Though Toris RP isn't exactly a high standard in-RP in this case. But how you should react when you get only a few lines and then pew pew?