Piracy in Disco

[Nevearo]

Powertraders/Power Pirates don't matter. A CD stops the powertrader just the same, and the powerpirate won't last very long if he starts pissing off a lot of traders. While it sometimes is difficult to hire an escort or Bounty Hunter, generally by an hour you can have a horde of people heading down for the pirate. If he comes back to the system before 4 hours are up, he is available for sanctions, solving the problem.

The rules and the community take care of power pirates, just as powertraders run into nasty surprises for too much powertrading. However,

THIS WHOLE ISSUE IS ABOUT PIRATES ABUSING GAME MECHANICS
Here are the abused game Mechanics:

1) It is possible to be friendly to bases while killing people right next to them, even if your IFF/ID calls you Nomad. (I know that never happens, but it is possible, and that is the abused mechanic when a bad pirate sits next to a base.)
2) Jump GATES get broken if you are hostile to an NPC group with escorts that encounter you trying to pass through.
3) Hostile NPC assistance isn't necessarily a broken game mechanic, just bad RP. Less justification for this than for constantly spamming cruise and not talking. The Player can't pay those pirates off. At the very least keep your eye on the player and allow the player to defend themselves from the NPCs, since they cannot be called off in any other way. Especially if they are talking and requesting that! Alternatively, clear any potential hostiles away from where your engagement zone will be.


So I repeat, besides the last one, this isn't about RP or powertraders or Power Pirates, it's about knowing exactly what the heck you are doing, recognizing you are exploiting game mechanics, and reducing the amount of times you do that.
Jump hole piracy is not broken. Pirate jumpholes, or move 2k away from the jumpgates if you must pirate there. I do believe once an NPC gets 1.8k away from the Jumpgate, they take themselves out of the line.
Don't abuse faulty game mechanics to pirate. It isn't just bad RP, it's bad form in general.