Pirate Tax (calculator required)

[Athenian]

So traders would roleplay better if the pirates didn't attempt to extort so much from them that a run became unprofitable? Because this might encourage people to opt to just not pay and get killed just to spite the pirates?

... well, yes, it might. But why should well role-played pirates - criminals, cut throats, nasty folk - amend their ways to accomodate the rp or lack thereof of people who simply believe that the right to earn some bit of money is god-given? Proper trade should be speculative to a certain degree. And you should be grateful the hopped-up muggers who just robbed you didn't perform something of an amoral and unhygienic nature on you, your crew and your pet dog.

"The values of your shares may rise as well as fall." Businesses deal with profit and loss.

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