' Wrote:And here lies your loophole. I've said it before and been a victim of it more than once.
So they can attack without notice but:
Says they cannot. I've never liked 6.19 as I think it is abused. Most pirates I encounter will make their demands first and might RP but they keep their guns quiet. Those pirates are likely to do better with me than those who "soften you up" first. I've had some that don't know how to read the opponents red meter very well and I've gotten an "oops" after I was killed.
I've said before, I'll say it again, the pirate who fires on me first will get nothing. Hopefully, he/she can make something out of what they tractored in. Big difference in what they would make. Something to consider, pirates.
Oh yeah, I much prefer donations instead of tax. It sound so less........socialistic.
This may be a minor correction, but it is important. 6.19 is regarding the demand, 6.20 is regarding the attack. Pirates are not allowed to engage without role-play, but that role-play does not need to contain a demand for money. 6.19 merely says that the demand for money must come before the trader is destroyed.
The only real issue with pirate-trader situations, for me, is that of CDs, not any form of damaging attacks. That's a different issue from the one in discussion here, though.
Also, I have never liked people tacking a negative connotation to socialism. There are plenty good reasons for not calling pirate taxes taxes, so use them instead. At least don't use socialism as a reason by itself, qualify it.
There is extensive etiquette for pirates and traders, communication that goes beyond words; the rules are lenient enough to allow these wide nuances in behavior so my advice is to take all but the most blatant rule-violations as actions not in the context of the server rules but as actions in the context of this etiquette.
