Decent Pirating

[Archelon]

Tell ya what ... You don't tell me how to pirate and I won't tell you how to trade.

Most traders don't RP the way they should anyway. They're more like profiteers / opportunists. They are in it for the money and that's it. Imagine a trader moving passengers from Cambridge to Corfu. I pirate you looking for my cut and you run. You'd rather die and lose your cargo than to pay me (as I've heard numerous times before). Tell me ... do you really think you'll be able to get other passengers to board your ship if you have a reputation for handing them over to pirates or allowing them to die in space? A real trader would make every attempt to keep their passengers alive.

Don't talk to me about what a real pirate would do if you're not willing to act like a real trader. A real trader would protect his cargo since he has a contract with the person he's moving the cargo for. He gets paid upon the cargo arriving at the other location. And the guy that's paying for the cargo is likely gonna take his business to a trader that will guarantee his cargo will arrive at its destination.

Pull the plank out of your eye before trying to pull the speck out of mine.