A request to pirates

[Dane Summers]

Is that good RP? "I won't pay, just kill me so I can respawn”? Outrageous amounts of cash? What about your ship? What about your life or the life of your crew?

Of course sometimes pirates will demand all your cargo so they can take it home or destroy it. Would it be good RP for a ‘sair to let a trader supply their enemies or to let a full load of goods get to the houses instead of taking it to Gamma?

There are a lot of pirates with no sense of RP but the “lolwut” traders outnumber them by far and I don’t understand why a large part of this community refuses to admit that.

Its really hard to explain - it comes from that part of the human brain that just says "Eff this" and ragequit - *shrug* in essence, ill explain it like this - if i run into a pirate who wants not only my cargo, but also like, lets say 20 mil - i dont consider that worth paying, for any amount of rp reason - so i wont. i will, in essence, from that part of me that gets angry and offended, to just refuse to give in to this behavior, rp reason or no.

i will say, i have never had to do that - but two of my friends have run into pirates that have asked for all cargo and unreasonable amounts (in one case, more money then the char could realistically have - 10mil, and this character was flying a rhino hauling for a measly 300k a pop)- both of them tried negotiating in-char to something more reasonable, and were just shot for their trouble.

Ive also paid out 4 mil to a group of pirates, even when they said i didnt have too. so im hardly coming from a personal Q_Q position when it comes to pirate-hate.

As well - a pirate that blows up a trader will have the ships cargo spill out before him - its often more profitable for the pirate to get the cargo, not the payout, but theyll ask for that too. so, in the end, whether the pirate gets a blue message and some cargo, or some unreasonable amount (maybe equal to what they would get for that cargo) - its basically a win-win for the pirate either way.

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