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

[Banris]

I've personally learned this from years spent here on disco and in this exact same argument (comes up ever 2-3 months or so).

You're right about the 25% of the value of your cargo thing... Impossible to do that on the fly. What was I thinking? Hey, maybe a /pirate FL hook that does it for you! ;-)

I've seen many arguments like this as well over the last year that I've been here. I'm sure that if every person who played on the server had a forum account there would be many more like it.

What is the significance of this? A subject that repeatedly comes up in arguments and complaints.

Could this mean there is a real problem that needs to be addressed?

Maybe one of the following popular explanations?

A) There's just a vocal minority who Q_Q like babies when they don't bother to hire scouts and then get owned by every pirate from Tau-23 to New Berlin.

B) Pirates are vastly over-powered and there is a balancing issue with transports.

C) There's an admin/pirate conspiracy in place which favors pirates and is reflected in the rules and sanction reports.

D) There is an issue with the server rules, with pirates being allowed to run rampant with no limits on how much they can demand.


I would personally say that it's a combination of A, B and D. Who knows, tough subject really. Again and again though, it comes back to rule 0.0... Don't be jerks basically. We're all here to have fun.

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