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Pirating as a primary source of income?
Offline Corsair
12-11-2009, 07:26 PM,
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My Hogosha demands 1/10 of the cargo his target holds.. So, yes. I trade on the side when the miners are hiding.

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Offline RParade
12-11-2009, 10:31 PM, (This post was last modified: 12-11-2009, 10:33 PM by RParade.)
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I've used piracy as a main source of income before.

If you charge 500k to 2 million, you can make money pretty quickly. If you charge less and remain polite, many traders will literally go out of their way to pay you, especially if you promise to give them protection from other pirates. When I pirate I usually do it for RP purposes, but for awhile I used it as a main source of income when I realized I had made 70 million credits in 2 days.

It's a careful balance. If you want your piracy career to be meaningful and rewarding then you'll need to give the traders incentive to feed the fire. If you fire at traders randomly with a boring "Halt or die" then you'll find that most will avoid you like plague. Honestly, if a player is doing OOC things (like ignoring tradelanes) to avoid you, then you're probably being a jerk and should reconsider your strategies.

It also helps if you do a Non Aggression Pact. Ask the trader to pay you 15 million to leave him alone for 7 days. That works out well sometimes, so long as you promise to protect them from other pirates in your zone of influence.
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Offline Errant.Venture
12-11-2009, 11:10 PM,
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*loooks in mirror* hmm 25 years and happily married.... must be something wrong
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Offline DarthCloakedGuy
12-11-2009, 11:18 PM,
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I typically charge between half a million and two million. I can't make a profit, so I do it for fun and powersmuggle to supply myself with ammo.

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Offline Tales23
12-11-2009, 11:35 PM,
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' Wrote:*loooks in mirror* hmm 25 years and happily married.... must be something wrong
This was meant as ingame RP, No one cares about anyones personal life. So smug it up, you totally missed the context.


What point, you talking about the over generalization of the hacker players?

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12-13-2009, 01:23 PM,
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' Wrote:What point, you talking about the over generalization of the hacker players?

He is one angry dude.. Terrible world :(


Heh LH~ the rule should make it really fun. Never treid yet, but perhaps someday I will

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Offline OutlawBullet
12-13-2009, 02:22 PM,
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I've made a main income from piracy before. Was quite successful, = 30mil in one weekend. It's just a lot slower than trading.
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Offline tansytansey
12-13-2009, 02:27 PM,
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It's not really possible. Best I've done is 100 mil in a day, but the second best after that would be 30 mil. And if you put as much time into trading/mining as we did into pirating that day you'd have made x3 as much.

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Offline Exsiled_one
12-13-2009, 07:04 PM,
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I think that on average night now, looking at penn numbers.. three pirate transports could make about 9k gold every 15minutes. Killah

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Offline mnbnbf
12-13-2009, 07:33 PM,
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Where are all these traders that just give you the money? Every trader I have ever seen in the last week or so has rather fought or called for navy or LPI than pay 1 million credits.

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