I stopped. Waited for the guy to type whatever... it took a while (~30s) but then:
500'000 to continue
At this time I was lvl 42, had just gotten 4 mil to buy a transport and had barely 500k leftover. Also, as I was completely new to the game, I had no clue how to open a trade:)more on that later.
I told him that he needed to check my level, and then notice that I might not have 500k to pay him.
His reply was 250 diamonds to be dropped then.
Well he only had a cargo hold of 70 so, being averse to "wasting" goods I told him he could only hold 70... so why waste?
He said: A "friend" will pick them up.
Ok said friend showed up as well right about then, and shot away my shields and got me down to 50% hull. Well whatever he must be the mentally challenged partner (note I didn't not remark on his mental abilities at all;))
Pirate #1 said: Hurry up I don't have all day.
I said: Well you need to earn your money like everyone else (while frantically trying to look up how to trade)
Then I got it (yay "U" key) and opened a trade, entered in 450k due to deducting repairs (he AGREED to this)
Then AFTER ok'ing the payment his mentally challenged partner shot me down to 30% health (after which I quickly repaired... you never know with these twits) causing me to lose 50% of my cargo. FIFTY PERCENT... now I'd lost 450k + 30k ish repairs (not including the pod that I lost) + ~1.5 mil worth of cargo... and I had COMPLIED WITH EACH AND EVERY DEMAND ON THE WAY.
While taking the trade route out of there I commented on the 2nd pirate being an "arse" (for shooting up my trader AFTER i'd payed for safe passage) which got me the "Kill xxx now" code... and was nearly dock killed by some other pirate in the system further down the line (he only opened up fire once I'd completely lost control in the docking sequence)
The next day I went and asked to talk to a "leader" of the fraction in question (OPG or something like that...) the kind Sir Mule posting above was referred to me. I told him the events, he said that he thinks that EVEN AFTER PAYING its fine to kill/damage/mutilate/whatever the trader. So basically there is NO FURTHER POINT in paying OPG or even trying to interact with them since they think they are above the rules.
I've tried to forget, I've tried SO HARD to forget...
