@ blubba: Corsairs taxing Gold to those who bring gold TO them? Think I'd stop bringing Gold to Corsairs ... its called supply and demand. Great way to decrease your supply of Gold ... yeah ... enjoy yourself.
Ah....Baltar. I see the penny dropped. Your getting there, slowly, but getting there.
As for the council declaration ... is that a player faction declaration or something you'll find in the NPC rumor mill? If its in the player faction declarations ... you're becoming too much like Liberty.
Er....not sure what thats about. A bit too bizare for me.
For me, it's what Dusty Lens and Jihad Joe said. It's about what you're carrying, where you're carrying it and whos just caught up with you that counts. Each encounter should be different, not some scripted thing else we are again reduced to the "$2 mill or die brigade"!