ARE PIRATES DEPLETING?!

[looqas]

It's very, very helpful for traders and pirates to think about (and why not have them setmsg) couple of replies to different situations.

As a trader:

like TL is cut:
"What's happening? ... The TL has been cut! Pirates!"

You decide to play along (at least for the time being):
"I'm cutting the engines."

if you enter cruise:
"The company policy states that we are not to stop under any circumstances."

or the pirate RP is 2 mil or die type of thing:
"WHAT!? Outrageous. I think we can negotiate about this."

After making known that you are willing to RP it out you can continue how ever you see fit.

A trader that really wants to RP it out uses local chat as a courtesy to the pirate so that he won't get gang banged by the lurking BHs. I know it's a bit OORP, but it's a very clear signal to the pirate that you don't want to call for help publicly.


As a pirate:
a trader is a faction enemy of yours. Then the pirate's RP should be even better.

"Halt trader. No one needs to die."

You have scanned him and stopped:
"Well, what we have here. What a pleasant surprise."

He seems like he's about to take off or you just want to warn him.
"Don't do anything stupid like trying to cruise."

Then comment about the cargo and stuff like that. Try to think up a reason why you are demanding and what.

Do not make insane demands. Unless you are sure that this guy is actually willing to RP this out. Then you can go the whole way of demanding him to drop all his cargo or what ever.

It's not that hard really with the setmsg. If you need instructions how to do them: http://discoveryfl.com/wiki/index.php?ti...r_Commands

For example for pirate:
for halting the TARGETTED player.

/setmsg 1 Halt #t

and then when you target a player, say named silent.bob, you can type in the chat

/1

which will print out to chat

Halt silent.bob

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