Traders and Pirates!

[Burroloco]

As a trader my character will always be looking to escape a pirate. However, as a player my outlook is a bit different.
The lanes can be quite boring and I enjoy a bit of RP banter with a pirate from time to time to break up the monotony (though Im not too quick with good RP replies all the time).
On occasion Ive been known to purposefully take a trade run through an area that (as a player) I know has pirate activity in hopes of an encounter.

If a pirate says 2 mil or die I might just open fire and try to run. But if theres something about the pirates opening lines that strikes me as potential for some entertaining RP then there just might be a slight malfunction that halts my ship for a moment, even if it the pirate were in a light fighter.

For me RP is about interaction and having a good time, not just whats realistic.

I totally agree...while pirates add a necessary bit of spice to the otherwise tedious grind of trading its a pity that most of 'em consider,say, camping a gate to be a brilliant stratagy and "2m or Die!" to be RP.....here, as elsewhere [EVEonline/whatever], after the first wk or so ingame [and once out of of an exploding tin-can], anyone with half a clue can easily avoid/outwit them most of the time....Its weirdly amusing that traders should be "looking for trouble" out of a sort of boredom.....Sometimes if they're good at the dialogue my trader likes to try to bargain with 'em in character.."Ok,Ok I'll pay but you're cutting my throat on the profits here....how about..." etc etc.. Cowardly and obsessed with money, but of course! However that'll quite often get you blown up for "stalling"....In fact, though, you [not yr char] knows that buying some commodity at say 200 creds and selling at 1k+ means that all demands they make are unrealistic...like we could go "so blow me up and I lose 600k,big deal" .......so its the trader [like the willing masochist in kinky relationships] thats actually calling the shots...Then again too often its "2M!" followed by firing....sometimes my Bretonian Gentleman Trader will go down firing [as is "my" choice, heh once i even ejected my cargo and blew it up when out of bots and bats and near death, "Leave the buggers nothing Carruthers,nothing!" but I figure thats going a bit far...] rather than pay, yelling "God Save Queen Carina" and "Death to all Pirate Scum" because he is both a snob and an in-bred lunatic.....which is great fun too....

Anyway since here "Every cops a criminal and all the sinners saints"......quite literally! When I'm out making pie-rat mischief I at least try to keep it above the "Yarr"darm of bad dialogue but I 'm not much of an actor either.....On the side issue of which shouldn't only bretonian based pirates be all sort of Jack Sparrowish while the LR etc should I think be more like"Ok Yuze Guys, dis is a stickup!" kind of thing?