Pirates vs RP?

[Zeb Harley]

Also, this topic has been made a million times before, and it always ends up with a similar conclusion: The trader/pirate situation is fine as it is, because the problems with it are down to the people playing the game and each side is as bad as the other.

Yesssss!

Last time I got into a piracy-situation was when I jumped from Magellan to California and run right into a LN - battlegroup consisting of a carrier and two gunboats. I wasn't aware that alien orgs were something not to be shipped, since the info-card doesn't display a warning and Planetform seems to have good use for them.

No listening to arguments from my side, only order to drop the cargo in space (right next to the borderstation) and threats of destroying my AT from the carrier. Well, that's exactly how I imagine a good piracy has to be. Threats and orders. No coffee-talk, because there would be no time since a patrol could come by any time.

Too bad the situation didn't end a little more inRP (like forcing me to unload the cargo on the border-station, calling in a team of specialists to examine it or making something else of the situation.)

So I agree: it's not a pirate-trader thing at all, but a people-thing.

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for those who missed it: the moral of it all is ----> traders with teeth are fun for pirates. - within reason.