Pirating, amount of money

[BaconSoda]

There proberly is alot of traders who wouldn't RP, but if the Pirates say "2 Million or Die" its showing that they arn't going to RP(even if you would give them 1.5 million chances are they would just go "Your a lvl 99999999999 you can aford 2 million", or "Your in Ship X you have to have at least 2 million"), so why should a trader bother to waste his Fingers typing out RP when the pirate is just going to blow you up unless you give him his easy 2 million credits.

The follow is what happens, say im in a Rhino(80 cargo hold), i have unlimited money and a extremely high lvl(i know that iv picked an extreme example):

Pirate: Hault Stucuk
Pirate: 2 Million credits or die!

Thats not what i call RP, it Shouldn't just be "2 Million Credits or Die!". Espeicaly how pirates are ment to take cargo not the money which the drivers DON'T have on them cos they don't get payed 2 million. Pirates saying "or Die" just shows there unwillingness to compromise, saying "Your Cargo or X Money Please" is far better at showing a pirate is willing to compromise and come to a deal that both parties could agree on. Also saying stuff like "Ill charge you 1 million more if you don't stop now" is also far from RP, but pirates do it. Its just about money not RP.

Like Mwerte said, I don't know how flimsy your transport is, but when a pirate in pirating, they are under way more pressure than the train. I pirate in my fighter more than in anything else, and a couple of shots from a fighter is not as much damage to a transport as the transport's shots are to the fighter, not even to mention the NPCs floating around. Not everyone is like the AFA where I have enough time to disrupt you and write a five page essay at the same time simply because the police look the other way, sometimes loads of NPCs are a problem and can hurt, even for gunboats. The pirate has far less room to operate than the trader unless the trader did something stupid like is going by Kyoto Base or pirate base/planet.

Sorry, but when I'm being shot at by several NPCs + the train im trying to pirate (sometimes) I don't have much time to type up an essay. I mostly pirate in a bomber, which has to keep moving or be blown up.

As for "not RPing because I give a fixed demand" Don't make me laugh, I am not a nice pirate, so why should I compromise? inRL I'm a pretty nice guy, so being a hard@$$ ingame is ROLEPLAYING. But I do make some compromises.

1) if the trader stops and doesn't shoot I tell him he has to make me happy with money, or he goes boom. If he gives me like 5 credits I introduce him to Mr. Supernova and tell him that I'm not happy.

2) I will let traders negotiate for x hours of free passage for x amount of money.

3) I let you chose, pay me or die.

Again, Stucuk, if you RP the death of your trader char (deleate char, start over) then I will respect your call for only making demands for cargo. until then, you're just complaing about something you don't like.

Like he said, we do have the guns, and sometimes we can compromise, but sometimes, why should we? If I have my fighter and I come against a Luxury Liner, I'll say my normal spiel, but if he wants to give less instead of fighting, I'll let him go on his merry way because I know I can't kill him, and that all I can do is drain half his bots/bats and hold him there for a good 20 minutes (Although I would really like to kill him on my AFA). If I am on my bomber, though, pay up, because I have bigger guns than you.

There is also more going on during pirating than just die or live, also, you have to factor in the time you lost when getting pirated. If I make a luxury Liner lose 20 minutes of trading, that's profits lost. The profits lost could be equal to what the trader could've payed me in the first place or even more without destruction. There is a lot more to pirating about whether or not you kill your prey, and it's surely more difficult than people who haven't done it before make it out to be...

EDIT: Also, if I really wanted to make money, would I pirate? No, I would trade. Trading or Smuggling yields way more money than pirating, so why would I pirate if all I wanted was money? This is also coming from a man (or boy, if you take my age into account) that makes some 10 million credits everytime he goes out pirating.

---

[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.