Rules Clarification Thread

[Melisandre]

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RULE:4.2 Demands should be reasonable and only one monetary or cargo demand can be issued during each piracy interaction

EXAMPLES

- Telling someone to stop is not a demand for purposes of piracy, but they can be destroyed if they refuse
- Demanding 25mil for cargo that would only fetch maybe 10mil is not reasonable
- Demanding they drop their shields is not a reasonable demand that you can destroy them for if they refuse (Though if they do, good for you pirates)
- Demanding they drop cargo AND credits is multiple demands, and not allowed

QUESTION:
1, Does demanding more than the entire profit of a trader violate the rule?
2, Is there a set amount of credits that considered a reasonable demand regardless the trader's profit?

In my case the demand was 158% of my profit. After asking the pirates multiple times inRP to lower their demand they insisted that I pay them 2.000.000 credits. During our "negotiation" I offered them that I would pay 1.000.000 credits (78% of my profit). I also made an ooRP note that it is against the rules.
After a while they got impatient and opened fire. I had to yield and send them the money. (because I have as much combat skills as a trained chimpanzee without the training) My profit would have been 1.275.300 credits. I ended up with -724.700 credits (The cost of bots and repairs are not included)

It would be really nice to expand on the current examples, because for me their demand seems unreasonable. Unfortunately, the provided examples do not afford enough information for me to confidently say that they have violated the rules.

A few more questions popped into my mind writing this post:
3, Are pirates allowed to demand anything from an empty transport?
4, Is there a time limit before a pirate is allowed to make another demand against a trader that recently fulfilled a demand for the pirate?

Thank you in advance for your time answering my questions.
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ADMIN/MOD ANSWER:

If a report is made against an unreasonable demand, it is judged within the context of the encounter.
We usually do not allow a player to demand more than the total sum of the cargo at the sellpoint. If you are flying a 5k transport and your cargo is worth 3k/u at the sellpoint, anything above 15 million is excessive.
Empty transports can be pirated as their death will result in them not able to return to the system. It is a valid interaction. We would like to, however, think that asking more than whatever million credits per thousand units of cargo space is frowned upon. If it is an empty 5ker - ask around 5 million. If it is an empty medium - around 3million.