I've got my own pet peeve. Pirates sitting on the Jumpgates.
Seriously. This BREAKS the jumpgates as escorts kicked out of their formation turn around and shoot at the pirates are still in the Que for jumping. I've seen a broken jumpgate for over a minute before, and had started before I got there. That's longer than a Disrupted trade lane, and with no rhyme or reason as to why it is undockable.
These guys think they are hot stuff. I will never pay these gentlemen. If you want me to pay you near a jumpgate, you better show you are capable of catching me... Without using trade lanes of course. I will usually pay a Pirate who intercepts me using the tradelanes, but never if his first attempt was at a Jumpgate. If a Pirate hits me at a trade lane, or in my transit across some systems, They get RP and almost guaranteed pay (assuming they are capable of catching me. Sometimes they aren't.) Hit me at a Jumpgate, all demands for pay will be met with a strict "No." I might even target them so when I say no I can blow them up, if they are weak enough. Probably the only time I ever fire my guns would be for that.
Come on guys, what is so hard about going 1 tradelane out from the jumpgates, disrupting that, and holding the traders hostage there?
