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Poll: I think that the definition of piracy is... You do not have permission to vote in this poll.
...stopping anyone anywhere.	10.26%	8	10.26%
...disturbing the lanes and stopping traders.	7.69%	6	7.69%
...demanding credits/cargo drop for personal/factional profit.	50.00%	39	50.00%
...demanding credits/cargo drop no matter for what, even if the cargo is destroyed later (excluding smugglers).	17.95%	14	17.95%
...the above but including smugglers.	12.82%	10	12.82%
...somewhere in my post below.	1.28%	1	1.28%
Total		78 vote(s)	100%

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Piracy?

jammi

09-12-2009, 06:55 PM,

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' Wrote:All copper need a luxury yacht one day or another, and smugglers being caught by the police should bleed dearly. One cant live of what they pay cpops these days.

But the millitary blockades are simply stupid and annoying, they couldnt enforce a bloockade at sea in history, and in space its just impossiblle, it just takes out the lawfull traders and therefore harms the roleplay.
and to roleplay is annoying for the navy man too.

If they're running embargoes, they're not lawful traders. They're smugglers. At which point your first paragraph comes into play.

And you'll find that if traders are forced into bottlenecks (see trade lanes) that deliver them into the lap of the authorities, they should expect to get caught. Sea blockades would have very easily been enforced if the vast majority of ships used a single channel that forced them to travel single file. If you take the 'back route' through the jumphole network, expect to get away with it though.

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