[color=#ff0000]BECAUSE I WAS BEING PIRATED OR STALKED SO BLEEDING OFTEN THAT I WAS MAKING SLIGHTLY MORE THAN I WOULD HAVE IN A GULL.
It stops being fun when you become such a huge target for harassment that you don't make any money and spend most of your time not taking tradelanes. Let me reiterate - THE TRADER HAS TO MAKE MONEY. I was not making any money, and I was being stalked by people who basically got off on shooting the big liner (whose defenses, let me tell you, are horribly overrated. Strafe=0) for fun. Oh, yes, and then there are the cargo pirates and the goddamn Junker Salvagers. Excuse me, hos, but I am not actually rich and I do get sick of being beat up and abused by every two-bit pirate with a pair of Gunboats or a Barghest.
welcome to the club: dont tell me about liner defenses and piracy against it, i have been rp trading on my spa and cruise liner for about 200 hours, back in 4.84 the run didnt make that much of a profit me either. in sigma 13 were corsairs or outcasts or dragons, in edinburgh sometimes there was a gaian although not very often, in the omegas there were corsairs, in cali there were rogues and in magellan there was phate, although he was the nicest of the bunch and let me off easy after a while. the route itself made about 20 million but i paid around 9 million tax, that made for about 11 million trade income for a flight of 90 minutes. . and then there are the groups of 3 random pirates together who ask as a group for 3 million each and then blow you away. so dont think i dont know how you feel. and still i had fun flying my liner through there and actually got a fe ingame kudos for the rp on the liner what made me happy and enjoy the flight nevertheless. if you dont have fun with your rp anymore, perhaps you should think about changing your rp instead of asking everyone else to change their rp.
