I just thought of a wonderful idea.

[sovereign]

When a pirate asks your 3k+ transport for 500 ore, give him the 500 instead of being forced to give him all.

Or pay him 2 million to avoid losing your cargo. Seriously, I've made way more money on my Pirate Hogosha Transport than I should be.

This is how I got 200 million in two hours without pissing anyone off (as far as I know). Small(er) demands mean the pirate isn't just a pvpwhore with a pirate ID, but that they at least have some interest in your ability to enjoy the game. We want to support that kind of thing. Granted, if you think you can get away safely that's always an option, but please just pay the pirate their little bit rather than going "splode" on principle... this not only keeps you alive, lets you still have profit after being pirated, but also shows the 10milordai pirates that being nice can be rewarding and (hopefully) encourages some of them to issue more reasonable demands to those of us who are actually into paying when there's a reason to do so.

Not to mention that pirates sometimes have backup. Non-compliant transport gets stopped three lanes down by a Phantom/Ame-chan/other assorted accomplice "why hello there" and starts really wishing they had handed me a measly 500 ore rather than all of it.

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