Clarification requested

[Enoch]

I'd say this is forbidden (and very low) in most situations, when the goal of the pirates is only to make higher and higher demands in order to destroy the trader in the end (making high demands for the sole purpose of making the trader not pay and then kill him is PvP abuse, as far as I know).
But sometimes, it makes sense. Several times I have pirated someone, all fine and dandy, and when the trader cruises away after paying, he says something like "Pirate scum, burn in hell". Naturally, that's asking for being stopped again, and if he refuses to apologize, I'll make another demand.

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