(10-13-2025, 11:52 AM)Perfect Gentleman Wrote: A pirate's perspective.
The problem with piracy isn't so much the pirates themselves as their victims. @Emperor Tekagi was right: right now, about 90% of servers prefer farming. Everyone has their preferences, but with such huge numbers, almost every third encounter ends with a completely inappropriate reaction from the victim.
And then it escalates to the point where it's your fault the guy gave up so quickly and stopped playing in your presence.
Dude, you've had 100,000 credits taken. In today's economy, that's 1/100th of your profit. For the next 24 hours, no one will bother you. Don't react to me or others as if all your real-life possessions were taken.
I also didn't care who are whose friend. If I took 100,000 measly credits from your friend, then go flame about me somewhere else. This is an RP server, and the best interaction is the one that is objective.
But why do you need to take 100,000 - he trades for the money, you don't pirate for it? Is your goal of piracy to make him go further away from his objective? Why not make RP demands, small cargo shenanigans and/or ask for 1ks if you have to ask for money? (Boring as hell if you ask me) Or - give them the option - RP with me OR pay money...well or die
My pirate gameplay rarely involves using information for profit. The last time it happened was here.
But overall, my character pursues only one goal: profit for the sake of survival. I generally charged that amount because the man's cargo was expensive. If he had something cheap, I'd, of course, lower the price. But the reaction was often the same: silence or simply shooting, just because.
There are also angry guys who didn't like the fact that someone got in their way. This is an online server, and everyone can do whatever they want here.
Yeah but Player A trades for money
Why would I, player B who pirates for sport, demand non-symbolic money from player A if I want said player not to avoid me?
"My character does ABC and his cargo was expensive so I ask for 100k" will get you put on bot list - why not adapt, give out propaganda, make them sing, symbolic fines, RP demands?
Anyone who flew with @Connor back in the day was up for a comedy session when they saw him pirate on his Rogue - like 7v1 pirate, he asked for 6 units of rum and everyone RPed drunk and we let the trader go hah - this stuff, making people sing, give out info, tell jokes - do the service for the trader not against them - and if they even then silent fly away, shoot them the hell down and don't bother ever logging when they come on again
We need to reward RP from traders and pirates alike, change the culture
