I'll tell you whats my definition of a power trader.
Power trader is a person that choses the profitable route, picks a big ship to do it and picks an ID/faction that should allow him to do it freely. By choosing a route thats out of roleplay, and ID affiliation just to stay safe from the persecutors he is cheating on the rp level and thus deserves to be pirated / wtfowned.
Powertraders > pirates > roleplay isn't any justification.
example: Junkers want to trade trough Corsair space, anything they want. Since powertrader doesn't belong to a faction of junkers he just has name, junker aff, and junker ID.
He gets stopped and pirated by Corsairs and he gets upset because we're neutral. neutral aint friendly, end of discussion. He was hoping to smuggle trough with just risk of getting caught in liberty. Shame. and not the way to do it.
If the said junker decides to bring food or medicine instead of counterfit software, he cutts his risks to half, because he's not doing anything illegal concerning the liberty side, and he's aiding corsairs (from corsair side). He can then take away artifacts freely and fall in risk just in liberty.
But if he does this, corsairs dont have anything to pirate, right? Well, right, but liberty has something to do, stop that smuggler.
When we start encouraging this, we will encourage players to trade in RP. soon there will be more interspace and gateway traders so corsairs will have something to plunder again.
So less powertraders means more rp traders means more acceptance to fact that you got pirated, more rp in general and more action. also, less indie capships and hopefully less 2mil or dai pirates.
There's my really really shortened suggestion of how to get rid of anything thats oorp considering rp.
Ofcourse, there will be those few that always try to bring quick income, and thats totally fair, but a large transport carrying whatever, getting caught and paying is not a problem. Apparently he knows what he did, and he knows the damages he has to pay.
On the other hand, trader that choses specific ID /tags that should "ease up" attention from him, and then whines and moans is the one who should get shot repeatedly.
The fact that I have heard "i just want to get rich fast, buy an osiris and be out of your way man", more times than i have got a trader just stop when i say "cutt your engines amigo" says that I'm right. Sorry.
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