In regards to piracy

[Baltar]

A pirate's primary source of income is a trader. Primary would indicate another source is avaiblable yet the very next sentence you act like he has no other source of income. Semantics, but I had to!

Yes ... there are other forms of income ... but nothing that will sustain the pirate. I can move cargo from unlawful or neutral bases to other unlawful or neutral bases. I do this from time to time when I'm within one of the house systems ... and I do this for role play only ... moving medical supplies, food, water and the sort. It allows me to interact in other systems while not actually pirating. But those activities do not pay the light bill. So ... yes ... piracy is the primary source of income. That does not in the least contradict my point.

The problem is ... you just wanna argue.

To my real reasoning.

Pirates income is a trader. If a trader makes no profit he won't trade. If he doesn't trade a pirate cannot pirate, hence he has no income. So, contrary to you claiming it isn't OoRP for a pirate to leave a trader with no profits; it is.

Remove the wax from your ears and open your eyes. Never said it was OORP for a pirate to leave a trader with NO profit. Just that one of MY goals ... as a Robin Hood type is to make the poor richer and ... to some degree ... make the rich guy poorer. Never said I'd reduce the rich guy to nothing. Just that I'd reduce his profits. Making you poorer doesn't actually make you poor. Just makes you less rich. No contradiction ... but the whole thing about piracy is TAKING a portion of your profit. So BY DEFAULT ... pirating you makes you less rich ... or at least less rich than you would be if you never got pirated.

As for you assuming I am here to whine and cry to have pirates role play nerf'd. I will direct you to the end of the post you quoted where I clearly stated I think the issue at hand should be left up to the player not to be an ass. Any rule would be hard to enforce. I don't think we need anymore rules on piracy; just to clarify the ones we have. This topic wasn't made to nerf your role play; it was made with the good intention of preventing the lolwutters from being dicks while at the same time playing within the servers rules, thus not being able to sanctin them or correct them for being dicks.

Never said YOU are here to whine and cry about being pirated ... or to nerf pirate's role play. What I DID say ... is that the MAJORITY of these threads are designed to do just that. You just happen to be participating in one of these discussions. Do a bit of research ... do a search for piracy ... I bet you'll find 90% of the threads with "Pirates" or "Piracy" in the subject were created by traders who whine about piracy and want to nerf the role play. Its just the way this forum goes. Traders who can't hack piracy role play ... those that consider us as annoying and nuisances would rather we just go away so they can make loads of credits to go pew pew with.

You have turned this thread into a flamefest war zone because you were insulted after insulting another person. You are the one assuming people are here to nerf your role play.

Get. Over. Yourself. This server isn't made up of people that want to ruin your day Baltar; quit acting like it is.
How about being a man (or woman) and dropping it yourself? Why are you asking him to be the bigger man or woman here? Step up, maybe he will follow.
See, this is proof you can be logical. I agree 100% with the quote here. Forward!

Turn your index finger to yourself sir. I'm not flaming ... just debating with you. If you can't have a decent conversation on this subject ... I can't help you. Don't turn a mole hill into a mountain. I make one or two comments about nerfing role play (as an aside) and you think I'm on some warpath. You wanna go on bashing pirates role play ... that's on you. I'm just participating in a discussion ... same as you.