There needs to be a limit on how much Pirates can demand....

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This thread makes me want to go play my liner and get pirated.

Even a billionmillionordie folk are quite bearable, as a change out of ordinary. Makes you value decent pirates a lot more.

Though, interesting how my view on piracy changed along with my view on trading. For two months since I found disco, I ran a freelance thingy (Albatross, then BWT) all across Sirius. Mainly because I needed money. Yeah, all fun and stuff, exploration and so on, but gets a bit boring after a while, as being a lone freelancer with some generic cargo doesn't offer much variety of RP. Pirates I viewed as an inevitable evil, dropped off the lanes and turned around at the sight of red contact ahead, if really caught, sighed and paid what's theirs.

Then I bought OSC liner. Something I really enjoy flying around. Makes way more sense to hire escorts, offers way more opportunities and ways to interact with lawfuls and unlawfuls alike. With an added benefit that after a few hours of having great time, paying an occasional escort, sponsoring a few pirates, arguing with angry Gaians, and generally meeting and talking to a hole lot of people, I still find myself a couple dozen millions richer then I started with.

So, yeah, pirates are people, too. Restricting them is bad.

Also, as someone having tried to RP a freelance escort pilot, I may say that a prospect of meeting an unreasonable pirate is one of the really few things that still make some miners/traders consider hiring one. Because meeting reasonable pirates are generally cheaper.

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