true, i got taxed or killed more than once buy pirates, who were giving me a lot of fun, and nice roleplay, but there are also far too many pirates who just want cash or just want to kill somthing.
Then its, "Too late now, die!", when the poor RPing trader is trying to pull out some lines.
For me its no problem playing with pirates, paying or getting killed, while sitting on an ATrain with several hundert millions stored, but is see it far too often, some Pirates asking transports or large transports the boring "2 mill or die" and start shooting right away.
Hostetly what kind of roleplay do you expect from them, i myselfe tend to crying for Help and begging for my Life, but Pirates close to NEVER negotiate...most love the killing too mutch, i guess.