to me the whole pirate thing often is just an excuse for PVP keen players to eliminate a weak target
instead of setting RP at the very first position.
Also, pirating shouldn't be considered as a serious way to make cash, it should be used as
a way to initiate a good RP, but this means "talking" instead of just shooting or demanding
ridiculos ammounts of cash, only rp'ed by 2 or 3 lines like
" halt - 2 mill pls. - pay or die" that's rp at it's poorest!
But this is exactly how most pirates act like.
Also pirating players at low levels - makes me feel ashame when I see something like that.
On my pirate char (and all others as well of course) I allways set RP at the very first pos. and even a trader
of lvl. 90 wasn't asked for more then 1 mill, often even less - actually most of the time I demanded just 1 credit,
know what both of us (the trader and me) had fun, good rp talks and this is what it should be like:
Fun by rp'ing, not annoying others
by abusing the advantage of a ships power.
Another pretty annoying thing is that "drop cargo or die" (by lawfull forces) behaviour - it might be in
character, depending on the chars affiliation - but nonetheless it's often just annoying, and only very little
rp comes with it most of the time. In particular I'm talking about escapepods as you can imagine.
They player who's got them worked for them, often hard - and then a player not belonging to a
server-faction shows up and states he's military, police etc. and demands your precious cargo.
That's just bull. - the only thing that happens is that this guy pi**ed off another player, mostly there's
absolutely no RP and even if the one who's carrying those "contraband" considdered pods is trying to
RP and give a logical explanation why he's carrying thos pods - the other one gives a sh*t for it and just
keeps on demanding the stuff an threatens.
I'm ok with demanding pods if a lawfull carries lawfull pods without having an rp-like explanation for it,
but a lawfull carrying criminals should be left alone by "officials", same thing to unlawfulls just in an opposite way.
However, I try to seperate from most players (bad) behaviour and try to show that there's more than just
annoying others in one or the other way - and maybe sometimes I can convince a player to get rid
off his bad attitudes and find a new way to RP without acting like an a**.
(I only wish I was a native speaker - but I hope I could show my point and make it understandable.)
Oh sweet pirates beard. 'An excuse for pvp keen players to target weak players'. Im not even going to rise to that one. Would you perhaps just like a ticket to fly a pile of junk through pirate infested territory? How about you take a look at that comment again. Pirates prey on the weak....fact. Pirates kill those who dont give in to their demands.... thats why they are pirates they arent nannies to help you go about your space bodding. OK how about we ask all pirates to fly starfliers and use pea shooters and harsh language to frighten you? Please go and revisit your comments and i hope I see you in space so that i can pirate you or kill you with my superior and frightening gunboat or fighter or even my pirate freighter which is surely the most devastating ship in the game. What was your handle is space? Please DO come via the Omegas sometime.
