All you traders read this ....

[n00bl3t]

I've always frowned on this philosophy myself, it tends to rely very heavily upon aspects of gameplay that sit well outside of the RP environment. Such risking the death of yourself and your crew, time lost being rescued, or the possibility of capture, the loss of your vessel which will need to be replaced, the additional loss of cargo.

But rather we're simply confronted with a respawn button and a new ship is sitting there waiting. How nice.

Piracy outside of a boardroom or political hall requires as much diplomacy as the situation dictates. Within Disco we do not take you hostage, we put everything I laid out above and play it against your desire to part with a percentage of your eventual profit.

I have to be sure the pirate will let me go. Relying on the rules to ensure that, is outside the RP environment as well. Hence, if he keeps firing as an aggressive pirate I may be inclined to believe he will kill me anyway afterwards.

But, if I have the guns, then I may use them to establish my superiority in the situation. Bluntly put, I have guns, you don't. In RP, I want piracy to work for me, and not necessarily you. Piracy is diplomacy, yes, but a large part of diplomacy is showing your enemy that you have the ability to cause harm and should thus be listened to. I do that, to little loss to you, what is the problem?

You got the first part right, I am robbing you. You will lose your credits and the progress you've made to your destination if you don't listen, and you'll lose your money if you do listen. Does that really help you accomplish your goals of making money? Not really, no. Neither does paying the pirate, strangely. This doesn't help your goal in RP goal of staying alive, as well.

All this over a loss of shield which costs you no monetary harm. I don't get it. I still RP, you still RP. I'm just RPing being rough. I'm sorry I have my own idea about how my own RP should be done.

Very well, I have credits to make right now. See how well your policy serves you when it comes to me.

(You fail to realise if you do not play nice with some traders they will cause you harm by sticking a bounty on you, hence, traders have power too.)

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.