(03-26-2016, 09:21 PM)Snak3 Wrote: @JohnyWalker Are you preaching fairness to new players as well? Are you suggesting that they roleplay with pirates?
I certainly would preach such a thing. Where are the new players like me going to learn to roleplay? Hell, I still don't really know how to do it well here, even with hundreds of hours of roleplay gaming and other such things, because it's quite different here.
I'd say Pennsylvania is a good place to try to start. But that means the pirates are also going to have to TEACH. Not just assume that anyone they accost is a vet player who already knows how to RP. If you're not good enough at RP to be able to teach others how to do it "right", maybe those people should be encouraged to stay out of Pennsylvania? Same goes for experienced traders getting accosted by newbie pirates, although I'm guessing that's less common since it takes money to become a pirate, and newbies have a distinct lack such such funds.
No, I have zero idea how one would go about enforcing any such suggestion. Even having a cloaked battleship handy to enforce things wouldn't work, since if a trader dies they lose their cargo and all the time and effort that went into putting it together, but pirates have nothing to lose. If they die they just respawn and keep going with zero loss as far as I can see.
