The Problem With Piracy

[Mr.Harris]

@Mr.Harris
You talk a lot for a player who:
- uses the same player list to avoid interaction with pirates or lawfuls
- uses "friends" in the system to scout ahead and notify him of pirates / lawfuls so he can avoid or just dock
- Now this one is great: in system chat, ooRP insults and threatens pirates / lawfuls when he gets caught or destroyed
Thats a lot of hipocrisy when you actively do EVERYTHING in your power to avoid interaction or when interaction occurs you go ooRP.

Yours truly,
Fred.

Huh, funny
Where do you get the information that i am having friends and that they are scounting for me? Most of the time i am flying alone mate, and when you are hauling contraband through house space, you are using a cloak, makes sense, right?
Cuz lawfuls will tell you to drop the cargo, they dont let you go away with xeno relics for example(yes you can ask for licenses, im aware of it)
And btw, I am the one who is saying get rid of the systems tab onto the playerlist to get rid of avoiding pirates.

Please do your research before making the claim that I use friends for scouting ahead of my ship, i only have a cloak and nothing more.

Alright, sure. Let's say we change the player list to region or omit player locations all together. Now, you almost never see any one. Pirating is now even more difficult to accomplish because you don't know where others are. Sure, this makes it so that silent powertraders can't skirt a pirate waiting ahead of them, but it makes finding the traders annoying for the pirate.

Oh, and let's say that you actually do find a trader as a pirate. The same exact thing happens as it does now. They noRP engage, run away, and then hurl OORP insults at you as they fly away or after they die. So what did you accomplish with this change?

Nothing. You just made it harder for pirates to find traders and increased the likelihood of never finding another player when playing.

I (sort of) get the reasoning behind wanting to do this, but in practice it won't solve anything but make things worse.

Well, yes and no sayne, everyone knows the meta trading route(it's gold and kenmer iirc)
Everyone knows the most active pobs
And .ost of the people knew where are the bigger factions are operating.
I only ask for the region change, I tell you something:
Some admin/devs want to get rid completely of the playerlist.
That makes it even more worse.
And I got one time caught with contraband with my barge,
But
I tell you something again:
The indie bretonia navy guy was like:
Drop all cargo or die.
Soooo
They also dont want to rp, they want that you lose your time/effort/credits and cargo.
He could also rp something instead of dropping or dying.
Navy/pirates needs to give the traders opportunities to get away with their cargo.
My personal opinion about it as a barge trader(i am only using it for everything, my first barge has over 460 hrs online time):
I wouldn't complain about if a pirate caught me,
But he needs to be reasonable and not going crazy cuz it's a barge or pay or die method.
And if you are unable to find a barge, than idk mate, dont pirate, it's the biggest and slowest ship on the server xD
Remember that it needs to be funny for both sides.
That also includes switching ships if people seeing one specific trader(a lot of guys are getting "hunted" if they log in.
And guess what?
They stopped playing the game......

But again, I agree that insulting is a no go.