What if everyone actually paid the pirates?

[Bootsiuv]

No. They would demand more and more up to the point traders wouldn't pay and pirates would be able to get blue message.
Or they would make few pirate characters to metagame and pirate same trader/convoy few times on the same run in order to get more money or chance to he blue message.

2millrdais already do this....

Players who behave in such a manner don't respect the spirit of the server to begin with, and will be a problem in any situation.

Such is the world of online gaming....

For those of us who play the game to get something more out of it than a blue message, I don't think this would necessarily apply.

If I knew everyone would pay automatically, I would delete ceridwen and go find a new game to play to be honest....

It could be that piracy would die off for the veteran players....I know I would find it far less entertaining if I was guaranteed payment.

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