Powertrading much?

[barrenwzste]

Hehe, I feel your pain, but it is kind of expected, isn't it? I mean, traders REALLY don't want to get pirated. IRL they'd do what they could to escape, so here, where there are far fewer and less drastic consequences, they will try, too. As a sometime pirate, I say pound him/her to within an inch of his/her life, and then ask politely for your donation again. If this doesn't work, start killing them all untill they give the 1 mill.

Of course, something to realise is that just because there is a trasnport with a full load that doesn't mean there is a full bank account behind it. The trader side of me is screaming, "If you want me to stop and pay the 1mill when I have it, then don't kill me when I don't have it." Nothing is worse than sinking everything you have into the shiny new ship and it's cargo and then being paupered by the resulting pirate attack.

Maybe demand cargo from time to time, or impossible things, like the keys to thier personal yacht. Traders are more apt to rp with pirates if it isn't, "Give me your millions or dai!" Yeah, you don't get anything in the end, but you aren't really pirating for credits, are you? Make a pirate trader to outfit your pirate and then go hog wild with it. Steal some poor traders wife, ravish his daughter. Make him watch as you burn thirty lots of his cargo, make him burn the cargo. These things can all be done without making the other player lose his hard earned credits and will result in the good rp you want.

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"Two things I know; Gravity sucks and Ion Storms blow. And that proves the universe is trying to kill us all" - Barren Waste, Captain of the Wasteland Wanderer

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