Does RP even matter?

[BaconSoda]

This made me spit coke out my nose:lol:
Well as a trader/pirate/navy, and so on. I take all encounter's as they come. You also miss 1 point though.
I pick up 5000 scrap from a junker(or mine it myself) for a really cheap price. Now 2minutes later(1 or 2 TL's) i pirate demands 5mil from me. I will look at my money spent, and time/distance from where i got cargo.In this case cheap,and very close. So i will not pay 5mil. I will try to broker a deal, but this seldom works if in a train.
That's why i say most pirates need to think more.

Well here's my thing: you either paid something or spent time to get the stuff. You also spent time moving it. If you're close to where you got it, it's a good choice to try and lessen the price. Based on who I am and what I am doing, though, it's my turn to make a response. Whatever that response is, I don't think it should be looked down upon. It's a Roleplay choice. Do you really want to lose that scrap and risk death if he doesn't lower it or doesn't lower it as much as you want him to? Well perhaps that is worth it to your trader and I can't look down on that choice, but because my pirate might decide not to care about "Pah pah pah your needs" does not mean that it is bad Roleplay on the part of the pirate.

very very few pirates who would talk more then necessary demand - cash - shot / death usual stuff. Yer right again Doc.
16,8 million maybe per hour? Or does that route flies itself in just single station- station route? I doubt it. I aint paying 5 millions just cause im in 5k, or because I can earn 16,8 million per hour, when I get stopped 4 times by pirates, im all dry.

Think BaconSoda, outside the one interaction box.

Actually, this run takes about half an hour theoretically, more like 40 minutes realistically, so it has about the average 20 million credits per hour profit range.

Quite frankly, unless the pirate is extremely wily and manages to trap you multiple times in one run, running into two pirates per run is mostly impossible. Four pirates is the most retarded thing I have ever heard of. Have you ever played this game? I have never in three years of playing this run into four pirates in the same hour. Ever. I suppose this just a good time to say "Hire a scout." or perhaps rethink your trading strategies.

I remember once I was in Shikoku pirating on the Kepler lane. Galileo was clear with no one in it. There was one trader who refused to take the Galileo lane. I kept Roleplaying with him. He broke Roleplay to tell me to stop "exclusively targeting him." I asked him why he didn't just fly through Galileo instead. He refused. He kept coming back and I kept Roleplaying. After the third time after our conversation, he solved his own problem and went to Galileo. This is legitimately how simple it is to avoid multiple pirate interactions on the same run. If this is the kind of problem you have, maybe I could give you some tips in PM.

But you bring up a good point, how does choice affect multiple interactions? As a character, you should be developing over time. When you come to a trader, demand a lot, and he interacts with you, that character should be developing thoughts and dispositions towards certain people and factions. For the sake of variety, take a Unioner. That Unioner can interact with people and as, say, a Daumann escapes and praises Republican or a DSE talks about how he dislikes the bar at Alster, he can form views and opinions about Daumann and DSE to become a 3 dimensional character instead of just a paper Unioner who is all "Rah rah rah Republican." When someone only charges 500,000 credits, he doesn't get that choice. No one is forced to interact. It's the simplest choice in the world to say "Well here you go, now you know nothing about me." meanwhile your character is a paper-thin shell of a character waiting to be developed. I would definitely rather be considered an in-character jerk and have a rich, developed character than compromise my character and Roleplay.

EDIT: Oh yeah I was on vacation (sun) so sorry for slight G-G-G-GRAVEDIGGER.

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.