'Taxing-Agreement'?

[MrCynical]

Not sure I'm comfortable with charging independent traders double that of faction ID'd traders (sounds a bit like trying to grief people who don't play the way you want them to), but other than that this looks like a great idea. To be honest there are two problems with pirate-trader RP here:
*Pirates demanding ludicrous sums, more than the entire value of the cargo. Earth (or Manhattan, if you like) to pirates: any trader worth his salt has his ship insured, so all he stands to lose from having it destroyed is whatever he had in the hold.
*Traders who ignore demands for fairly small amounts of money (e.g. 50 or 100k from a transport full of diamonds). Your aim as a trader (in-RP , even if you don't care OORP) is to maximise your profit - if by refusing to pay that 100k tax, you end up losing cargo worth 3 million, you're not a very good trader.

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No longer active online due to a dwindling amount of non-PvP (trading, pirating, mining, etc.) fun in the new version.