Cargo piracy

[Emperor Tekagi]

Welcome to your piracy guidelines with Werdi. I gladly ignore the replies so far because they are messy and not very constructive imho.

First a few generic things:

1. Reward traders who RP with you by making lower demands. Make the "How much?" one liner people aware iRP that such impatience will cost them money/cargo. You can be rude, you're a pirate. Just don't overdo it with profanities. Trader RP does not have to be their life story, but "Hi", "How much?" "Go lower?" is not behavior we should encourage through special treatments. Traders accepting this is a game with RP elements and type a couple of sentences for 5 minutes should be rewarded. It is not that hard and it does not hurt people's profits, making money is easy as hell as it is.
   
   
2. Know your own location. Knowing your own location helps you determine how close to a drop off point the trader is. The closer they are to their destination, the lower the chance (these days) that they run into another pirate. Communication by the trader about prior robberies is key here, if they cannot communicate we are back at 1) and you cannot reflect eventual adjustments to demands for the sake of fair play.
   

Now to cargo piracy:

1. Never demand more than you can carry. It will get you in trouble rule-wise and it is bad sportsmanship. This does NOT apply to cargo strictly outlined in your ID as demandable/reason to attack. In these cases, RP should take the priority. (e.g. A Corsair catches a Cardamine 5ker, you could attack them or go the more "friendly" route of demanding ALL cargo instead.) - If they get mad, explain it to them im DMs. If they stay mad, it's sadly not worth bothering.
   
   
2. If the trader is communicating prior piracies in a believable manner, lower your demand to like 60-75% of your cargo hold instead of 100%. It is not very iRP but it is keeping things fair. (Depends on your ship tbh, lower cargo space in general allows for higher percentage) - The same applies to traders delivering RP in general.
   (e.g. You fly a Bullmastiff with cau6, that should be 2.6k cargo space. You catch a 5ker. If the trader is silently fleeing, not willing to do any proper RP whatsoever, demand the full 2.6k regardless of their cargo. If they do a minimum of actual interaction, you could end up demanding 1.6k-1.8k cargo instead for example.)
   
   

Hope that helps more than people just speaking about one case tales of their own or discussing ship classes to pirate with and whatnot else totally unrelated to your initial question @Couden