Pirates asking for your 5K cargo, beam 50 units in, then blow it up.
These people are nothing but arseholes who take joy in pissing people off by nullifying their hard work or just terrorists looking for an excuse for a blue message.
Not going to argue but, which hard work? You mean, press the buy button?
I mean, buying from a station and moving it to the next station is not that -hard- work.
People with a different cargo, let's say... Ore... or I don't know... 5k of KNF pilots, you would be a jerk for destroying all that cargo, but, if it's so valued cargo, why did you get caught? Such valued cargo and you fly alone? Blame yourself for that.
But when it's about regular traders, how much are you losing even if they take all your cargo? 4 mil is the worst case? Poor the guy who trade with nuclear devices, I've done it before crying for not getting pirated in the way with 15mil worth cargo, but anyway, it doesn't hapen these days.
When I'm on my LF pirate, people mostly laugh at me, and don't even care of my ship, I demand 1 or 2 million, and they just try to run away, because "hey, it's a light fighter, can't touch this", so should I come here and whine because I spent twenty minutes waiting on a trade lane for a trader to pass my checkpoint, and the -bastard- didn't want to play my way and he just ran away?
The answer is NO, because if I want something I must make it happen (Note: Not many manage to escape anyway, yeah, LF works), if you are a trader, and you really believe your cargo is that worth, then, get an escort, send a scout, clean the path, DO SOMETHING TO DON'T GET PIRATED. Again, if you think it worths that much, otherwise, keep flying alone, risk it, and get over when you are pirated.
EDIT: YEah, I argued anyway:P
EDITED AGAIN:
I think people is too used to 2 million as standard pirates' demands, and like Zelot said, they go with the traders careless of getting stopped by pirates because it's just 2 million, well, I think a lesson is to be learned by every trader. I learned it, I raged once because a junker pirated my whole cargo, I raged when QCPs pirated my whole cargo, but hey, I thank them for that, now, when I see red on my way, I jump out of the lane, turn back and escape, because I like to fly alone with my trader and get the maximum profit that I can. Or I simply go to places where I know it's less problably to get pirated.
