Pirating, amount of money

[Stucuk]

How many traders actually negotiate, though?

Like he said, we do have the guns, and sometimes we can compromise, but sometimes, why should we?

You brought it up, i just responded. Now your saying that pirates shouldn't negotiate with a Trader, yet you stated earlyer Traders should negotiate with pirates.... Make up your mind.

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.

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.

A Transport can damage a fighter/bomber but a Fighter/Bomber can always beat a Trader's Transport ship. LVL 10 shields with some LVL9/10 weapons and the trader is dead. NPC's are nothing, and if you actualy pirate between tradelanes like most pirates then u very rarely have to worry about NPC's. Noone is asking for an Essay, but saying "Give me 2 million or Die!" isn't RollPlaying, its just a Easy way to make 2 million without having to get off your a*s. Asking for cargo would be Rollplay as its what real pirates would ask for.

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.

Pirates have ALOT of room to operate, You obvacly can't go near lawful bases but u can happily sit between trade lanes knocking them down and pirating. Traders use tradelanes so if you sit in say California u can EASILY attack transports without any NPC's ever bothering you.

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.

With my Train i can only use bats 2 times to regain full shield, a Fighter can take down my shields within about 5 seconds, so thats about 15 seconds of shield, it shouldn't then take a long time to take my hull down. In that time iv say knocked your shields down low, as i can't easily turn to hit you you would get alot more shots off at me (If i go into Turret mode im a sitting duct and aiming is worse). So its not hard to kill a transport.

it's surely more difficult than people who haven't done it before make it out to be...

Its not difficult.

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.

Well trading is less fun, as you mostly are just stairing at the screen while your ship autopilots to the next tradelane/jumpgate. So i assume quite a few would pirate insted to make money rather than trade. Tho thats just a guess.

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.

Noone deletes a character when they die, so what you said there is pointless. Pirates RPing properly and asking for cargo is far different to deleting a character.

until then, you're just complaing about something you don't like.

I can see you never read previous posts. Im not complaining about something i don't like. Im saying that pirates don't RP properly. If you want to do the "2 million or die!" then go ahead, all im stating is that it isn't RP to ask a driver of a transport for 2 million when in RP the driver would NEVER make 2 million. I also have a pirate account, so i do know both sides of the coin.




I keep hearing people state that its "not about the money", yet i also don't seem to hear the same people RPing for cargo. But insted defending there "right" to ask for 2 million or a persons life.

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