Traders: "Kill me now" OORP?

[maclypse]

I think it should be made OORP, think that the loss of one of those ships would cost, in RP, a serious amount more than the 2 mil or so the pirate charges. I hate that kind of thing, as it kills RP and is not really any fun for the pirate (or police), i actually paid a RFP guy 6 mil to let me keep my slaves once (which btw, led to some EPIC RP), even if they only cost 4 mil to buy.

Well, while I'd like to agree in theory - a rule like this would have to be complimented with a bunch of complicated rules, to make sure pirates don't overtax people out of greed or desire to kill traders. So what's the limit? 2 millon?

"2 million" might sound good, but not not for all traders. There's big ones and small ones. What if you have 225 cargo hold? 2 million? It would have to be relative to the trader's cargo hold - and that is already a bit much to bother calculating while making sure the trader stays put. "2 million" also makes sense if you for example get 4 million in profits on a 5-leg run. If you choose to run 1-leg runs 5 times instead, for 800k each - being taxed 2 million every time would kind of suck. We really don't want a system fixed in rules that depends on ship size, and their route...

It also puts in place a "legal" system to harass people. Demand 50 million - and kill them. Repeatedly.

I for one would be very careful with something like this.

And yeah, I can think of RP situations like your slave situation, where I'd pay more than they are worth too, but I don't want to legalise a system that can make people force me to pay rediculous amounts every time. This would make solo trading very hard, and possibly force people to group into mass-convoys, wich in turn leads to massive pirate fleets - with huge pirate battles as a result, and not everyone will approve of this either...

Quite frankly, I'd much rather leave things as it is.

mac