Does RP even matter?

[ryoken]

I think RP stopped mattering the minute 50% of disco players converted their characters to half-naked 12 year old girls with cat ears.

This made me spit coke out my nose:lol:

Perhaps that was a bad example since that run is far below the average profit margin of what people usually run. If a person runs a more standard run, say Optronics from Honshu to Freiburg (1415 per unit), Luxury Food from Stuttgart to New Tokyo (1523 per unit), then Robotic Components to Honshu (425 per unit), then you're looking at a round profit of 16,815,000 credits. As a trader I hardly ever see pirates when I trade and if I do, I try not to repeat the interaction. I assume the same for most traders.

As a pirate I generally pirate a 5k for 5,000,000 credits. This really leaves a transport captain open to profit as well, however most people accost me saying that I have poor RP in this situation. This is exceedingly confusing to me, since on my end I played my role and awaited the other participant's choice. To be honest, it gives me the idea that to most people who disagree with pirating prices actually are the ones who don't care about Roleplay.

I can agree there's essentially no choice in the either extreme and there's a happy medium to reach in there somewhere. Perhaps I used a poor example to illustrate this.

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.

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