Powertrading

[Jinx]

honestly - i believe that the term and the association of the term "powertrader" is mostly made up. that doesn t mean its less real. - but it means that its a self made problem.

we have freely labelled players that run niobium to the ring and diamonds back to kyushu to be "powertraders" - instead of laballing those that use the chogoku system as ooRP ( or simply be inRP and shoot them down, since the blood dragons could/would do so )

now - every trader that is hauling niobium is suddenly a powertrader - and how many of those that cry out "powertrader!" take their time to check if the trader in question maybe runs through all the systems he is supposed to take? ( kyushu, new tokyo, honshu, sigma-13, frankfurt, new berlin ) - thats quite some systems when you run it honestly - and it would be unfair to label those to be powertraders.

about ships hauling crew and parts ( or supplies ) in their cargobay... - ships are supposed to have the crew and all they need elserwhere but the cargobay. - so a battleship that does not haul a pilot or crewmembers is not flying with zero crew, nor is the player ooRP for not carrying them.

powertraders are what you think they are. - when i am on my pirate, i care little if i encounter a "powertrader" or a "trader" - they are all asked for the SAME amount of money and given the SAME chance to obey or disobey.

it would be nice to stop labelling players and simply RP according to the role YOU play. - it is not my business when a trader carries niobium or oxygen. - unless it is of any concern for my char.

so my Gaian makes a difference between goods taken to LD-14 or terraforming gases, - but if it does not aid BMM or planetform, they are all treated the very same. my char does not know the term powertrader - but if she did, she d be happy to encounter ANY trader that may or may not pay that is not escorted.... the least thing my pirate would do is to complain.

the problem with powertraders is solved when we stop thinking as a player and start thinking as a character.

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