It's probably just apathy. Trading in Disco is a tedious affair and more often than not, so is being pirated. Put two unfun things together and the result is akin to a math test in mid summer.
The best way to get a response is to up your own game, bring a little more effort into your RP and don't be afraid to haggle over the price of your demand. It may not work on everyone you meet but you may get a few lucky hits and actually have some fun, just don't fall into the mentality that traders are cashcows there is someone else on the other side of that screen trying to relax and enjoy themselves. That works vice versa too.
and when the developers nerf them, do you think that your situation will change?
I don't think so sir, So what about if you start checking your demands first? If you ask 20 million, ofc i will not pay.
Simple and clear, be reasonable and you might find some fun in pirating.
But if you keep demanding unbelievable amounts of money, then enjoy shooting my trader, i ll respawn and trade somewhere else.
Please revise what you do, before complaining and asking developers to ruin other people fun by nerfing this and that ....
PS: I pirated players many times more than you can imagine, and i never asked for 20 million, and maybe that's why i always get my tax and fun.
Please have a nice day! regards, Malmsteen
They might be flying 5kers, but doesn't mean they have the 10 or more million that your demanding on them at the moment, if they full of ore, remember they've probably paid about the half amount of profit they will get just to get the ore
(12-26-2015, 06:22 PM)Traxit Wrote: Just kill the poor sods over and over, their profits will cripple and you get the satisfaction of crippling their profits.
I know I would get satisfied.
and then they wont fly that route, and then you'll meet no one
Depends largely on where/who you pirate. Cross sees a lot of the same thing in Tau-23 when we do our piracy raids through the surrounding areas.
Honestly, if they're going to drop RP and say "kill me, its cheaper" then by all means, just kill them.
Strangely, piracy with groups of others tends to yield less people going "lol ima run"-- likely due to their decreased chances of survival should they flee. Either way-- piracy will live on-- reap on ye reaper-man
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(12-26-2015, 06:22 PM)Traxit Wrote: Just kill the poor sods over and over, their profits will cripple and you get the satisfaction of crippling their profits.
I know I would get satisfied.
and then they wont fly that route, and then you'll meet no one
great!
no one is stopping those pirates from using the playerlist.
Transports were nerfed? I didn't know, nice, nice, I'll need to test it now. I usually tax traders more when I notice they try to fool me (paying just 5M for train full of ore), or when they try run or stall the RP while waiting for help, so I go harsh on them. Maybe admins should sanction traders for kill me its cheaper "rp" ?
(12-26-2015, 06:40 PM)Qurchak Wrote: Transports were nerfed? I didn't know, nice, nice, I'll need to test it now. I usually tax traders more when I notice they try to fool me (paying just 5M for train full of ore), or when they try run or stall the RP while waiting for help, so I go harsh on them. Maybe admins should sanction traders for kill me its cheaper "rp" ?
Transports got their armor nerfed by a reasonable chunk.
The way I like to harass a transport while i'm waiting for him to pay me is shooting down his shields, maybe do a little bit of hull damage, would keep him on edge.
And setting a reasonable time period to pay (say 30 seconds or so).
(12-26-2015, 06:08 PM)Malmsteen Wrote: and when the developers nerf them, do you think that your situation will change?
I don't think so sir, So what about if you start checking your demands first? If you ask 20 million, ofc i will not pay.
Simple and clear, be reasonable and you might find some fun in pirating.
But if you keep demanding unbelievable amounts of money, then enjoy shooting my trader, i ll respawn and trade somewhere else.
Please revise what you do, before complaining and asking developers to ruin other people fun by nerfing this and that ....
PS: I pirated players many times more than you can imagine, and i never asked for 20 million, and maybe that's why i always get my tax and fun.
Please have a nice day! regards, Malmsteen
The demands whoever makes it higher price, they have reason. As you described you don't really like you pay pirates! Then why you are trading for? For making big toy and get the CAP VIII? 20 mill too much! When you are hauling almost 60 mill credit Ore in your 5k ship then what's the problem to pay the pirates a bit? Big demands come when pirates see those trader's using the jump hole and avoiding gate & it mostly happened when a group member get pirated then he inform others like 'hey, that [charname] pirate me he's near the gate or the middle of lanes then those traders avoid lanes and using the jump hole. Simply you pay the little cash, then pirate won't demand a high price in next time unless you avoid gate or if you still heaving mind you will never pay then get heavy transport mount it with CAP VIII & feel the power and do Q_Q
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