Average pirate demand amount? Noticing a pattern here...

[ryoken]

I had just last night, 1 pirate at colorado gate demend 3mil,when i just got the cargo for 98 000. Come on guy's, you really think someone will pay that 1 TL from where they got it? so i lost 98K,and the pirate lost well over that in BOT's/Bat's and ammo,not to mention repair's as i dropped his sheild's over a dozen time's,and he had almost no hull left when i went boom.
So i load up again(diff cargo as i do not power trade) and goto Ontario>cali. At cali gate i get Your life is worth 5 mil right? Again my cargo was worth maybe 150K,and still close to pickup location,so again,I blast away,and cost him more then i lost.
10 min later i again load up with again a diff cargo,and no later then i undock,here is 4 "freelancers" outside planet,and i get "10mil,or we blow you to bits" (all green to navy fleet just 1K away).So i just turned around and docked (shaking my head) and went to one of my other 5 Char's to get some RP.
So i would say Yes this is getting way out of hand. As of right now IMO 50-75% of the pirates around NY are new/To lazy to work for money,or just really dumb.
Now this is not all pirate's. I have met many who are good,and here is a new trick some to learn...They scan me...wait it's coming... and ask for a reasonable amount based on cargo/ship and we have some RP fun.
Also the 4-6 GB packs? Come on... what true pirate would do that. No profit,and pirate's do not like sharing. They use what is needed at a min,not over kill.

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