' Wrote:Well quite simple i hold up a trader ask for 3 million credits and he goes: Kill me, it's cheaper! Isn't that OORP? can i report them for acting OORP and beeing OOC, as i'm sure if i was held at gunpoint i wouldn't say kill me now...
I find this funny. Pirates complaining that Traders are sick of getting rapped. Did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe, you'll have less problems if you ask for less?
If you want the big cred's then I suggest you work for like we do. Despite all the ancient stories about wet navy pirates on old earth, I would expect that for every "rich" Red Beard pirate their where dozens and dozens of "poor" ones.
Crime does not pay, or at least not well, most of the time.
You Pirates see a train and think "MONEY!"
Well let me clue you in;
Independent traders average 4-5 mill cred's PROFIT a load and that assumes they are running all over the universe and not dead-heading to their next stop. About half the time they are making less then a mill cred's on at least one leg of their run.
With House traders it gets even worse. They are limited to specific runs buy Corp headquarters.
Add in to all this the fact that you Pirates seem to think its a god given right that we stop. That its ok for 2 or 3 of you to hit us on a single run, and yes, we get a little sick of it.
As you can see you start paying premium fees then soon you are in the hole.
And this is all before we get in to the garbage houses like GMG, that allow piracy in their systems but blow allies for carrying proscribed cargos.
It all adds up for the traders and very quickly they get fed-up with it all.
Let me ask you this.
Is it better to get 3 mill cred's from one trader and have to kill 10 others or is it worth more to get 500k from everyone? Heck even a mill cred's isn't too bad on some loads.
