Piracy/Blackmail

[jammi]

Now I know for a fact that piracy is illegal with a Freelancer ID (if you want to be an unaffiliated pilot who pirates, you get a Pirate ID) but I am interested in a different faucet of shady RP. Bribery and blackmail.

To use an example I recently set up a Kusari food salesman character who hangs around the Empire and... Well, sells food. Frequently enough I run into smugglers, at which point I'll notify them that they're carrying dishonourable cargo and that unless my hands are occupied by business they may busy themselves with sending incriminating photos to the Navy or State Police.

Usually seeing as the smuggler is full I'll ask them to place a 'holding order'. Barely concealed request for a bribe really. So far I've asked for $80 each time (in it for the RP, not the money) but so far I've respectively received $100,000 and $19,000 because 1) the smuggler was too lazy to use the trade window, and 2) the trader just lowered the bar for money quantity in the trade window but couldn't be bothered to set it to $80.

Now this is very amusing, but am I actually allowed to do this? I'd be worried that people would interpret this as piracy, which as I pointed out earlier isn't allowed on the Freelancer ID.

So, opinions on bribery and blackmail?


And I bet you thought SilverLeaf made this before you saw my name:P



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