I am trying to illustrate why I am frustrated by a concrete example, that happened to me a few minutes ago - about the 7th pirating of this style i encountered in 2 days.
After considering what you more experienced players wrote, I had to admitt that the main problem was me wanting to earn money to get a specific craft to play a role I had prepared a day bevore I want online. Good, I am accepting now, that I have to RP my way to this... so, I tried to RP reasonable with people pirating me, acting as a "miner" and as a newb... I am not adapt to the server rules and faction relations, so I have wiki in the background and try to look certain things up when being pirated. I also ask for time to do so when encountering certain things I know.
Description: I was getting a full cargo bay of beryllium to new berlin after having mined it in cambridge. I suck at mining, it took me more than half an hour to get it. well, thats me, I will get better.
then, on my way to New Berlin, I encountered 2 pirates, both with pirate transports. I stopped, trade lane was disrupted... first thing I received were a few shots that took down my shields.
Pirates: Halt! Drop Cargo!
Me: //RP ?
Pirates: what? we said to trop your cargo or be terminated
Me: //drop your cargo is not RP
... and so on, you can watch the pictures.
well, while talking to them they were repeatedly attacking me, damaging and nearly destroying me. (when i ran out of nanaobots and batteries the "are you crazy?" was written)
So, do I have the right to at least want some RP when being pirated? Or to at least negotiate with the pirates (I mean, in this case I would even have paid up to 20 million because at least I could have made some money with the cargo).
as soon as I find out how to post pics i will post the incident.
