Taxing rates

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Greetings

I'm just wondering how it is that pirates can tax all of your money when you're over lvl 29.

I mean, I'm all for the roleplaying element, but when people tax you for almost all of your belongings I just can't laugh with that.

So I had a mining ship which I wanted to bring back to NY to sell and I brought a nice big haul of diamonds (I had about 45k left of money, I think I had something like 1.4m left so I bought an entire hull full) so I could delete this char and make a fighter or trader hadn't decided yet, but I needed to get rid of that ugly miner.

I went into the Bering system and a pirate player said something about a trading law over there (unioniers wanted to take Hamburg and they were intercepting diamond trades). So me, who just wanted to get to NY to get rid of this ship cause I'm completely tired of mining, meet this guy who tells me to drop everything I have.

Of course I can't laugh with that and eventually he starts shooting and I've no choice but to drop it all( he never even asked for a bribe like most people would).

So lets recap, I had a load of about 1.4m, and my ship is about 1.5m worth..So how is it possible that a player can tax you for everything you have (technicly everything cause I can't pay with a mortage on my ship).

I'm left stranded with a bad rep (I had a bad rep with NY so I just shot stuff in NB so they'd like me again), no money and I'm dead tired of mining.

So summary: How can somebody tax you for all of your money, I mean roleplaying is great, but this just kills ALL of the fun. There should be a limit on how much people can tax you depeding on your level, cause I mean I can see how this works when you meet somebody from like lvl 80 who can afford losing a load or 2. This is really making me think of quiting cause I hate the mining part, but I heared it's a great way to earn starter money with.