Piracy according to the rules

[BaconSoda]

I do understand the desire for wanting to give traders more incentive to want to pay.
But I also understand this, life as a pirate is supposed to be difficult not easy.
Also keep into consideration that any such rule should be applied equally on both sides.
If pirates are permitted to destroy a trader because his demand to halt was not obeyed.
Then lawfuls should be able to destroy a smuggler after either verifying that he is carrying contriband OR if he has a history of being a smuggler and does not halt if ordered regardless of what he is currently carrying.

Be careful what you wish for, you may have it used against you.

At the moment, there is no incentive for traders to stop or pay. They can continue running their trade routes exempt from the PvP rules, and they can simply respawn, where it seems they lost less money (but they lost profits due to lost time, people don't understand that).

If pirating life is already difficult, why make it harder? The Advanced Train has an armor equal to the Rheinland Gunboat, and most of the traders out here fly it. A pirates life is no longer hard here, but it's ridiculous. I used to fly my pirates because I found the utmost enjoyment in the RP of a chase, but now Traders aren't RPing at all. I don't know if it is this declaration, or if it's the major decline of trading factions (Gateway, RepEx, Synth Foods - All inactive), but most Traders I find have simply stopped RPing, even people who are here on the forums. Now it is more work than fun to pirate without a group of three or more people....

Lawfuls do that already. They have always done that. I know that having played in the BPA for quite some time, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time playing the BPA. Not only that, but they can do that with Cruisers and Battleships, while Pirates are restricted to Gunboats and below.

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.