Pirating is ruining my game experience

[Baltar]

If a rule was introduced limiting piracy to, say, ten million credits, you are guaranteed that everyone would pirate for ten million credits. If we said the limit was twenty million, then everyone would demand twenty million. Whether or not a demand is unreasonable depends on many things, and can't be judged just by numbers alone. It's best to let players do that kind of thinking for themselves.

Absolutely ... not to mention that if a rule was introduced limiting what a pirate can demand ... there would have to be an equal rule limiting the bounty that can be placed on a pirate (including limiting the number of times a pirate can be destroyed for the same bounty).

A pirate should have to give sufficient time for a trader/miner to respond with something besides giving the pirate the money. Anyone who does 10milrdai obviously doesn't want that and thus if you try to role-play with them you will be destroyed. If you don't give into their exact demands you will be destroyed.

Most people here have given the best advice: Report them.

Um ... the same goes for lawfuls interacting with pirates et al. Gets pretty old running into some lawfuls that wanna just go straight to guns when they see a pirate or other questionable ship. One of my vessels was destroyed in less than 1 minute after I halted (as ordered ... and CD'd to the point of no motion). I barely had time to type a single sentence before all heck broke loose. I'm gettin to the point of not caring about these traders complaining ... give me time when you encounter me with your armada of lawful vessels and I'll give you time when I demand cargo or credits.