Pirate etiquette

[Capt. Henry Morgan]

I personally use a /setmsg so I can quickly get a demand out, then I RP from there. I can be a lot more colorful than a simple "Halt!" that way. The one I'm using now is "Ahoy there, #t! Heave to and strike your colors! Cooperate quietly, and I'll go easy on you." I then fill that in with whatever demand I come up with on the spot. Sometimes I'll ask for cargo, other times I'll ask for credits. In neither case is it going to cost the trader a lot of profit. I don't recall ever asking more than a million credits or half their cargo.

Basically, don't be a '2milordai' (or his ugly cousin, the '5milordai' pirate), keep your RP good, and don't treat the trader any worse than you have to. If he says he can't afford the demand, come up with an alternate demand. On one occassion, I settled for bots/bats from a Spatial we had stopped. On another occasion, I demanded a single young, female refugee from a guy carrying them in a VHF for some reason.

At the core of it, just remember the following.

Rule 0.1
Don't be a jerk.

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