Something disturbing I have noticed during my pirate-trader interactions

[Croft]

I don't know what can be done instead, though, that wouldn't completely screw up everything.

Consideration for the person on the otherside of the screen would be a good start. Until we get that everything else is just pointless.

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[tyro]

I have seen many of similar threads in which the players-pirates complain, that players-traders are not satisfied with being robbed, destroyed, and that they try to escape or to fire back. Wolves complain that sheeps are not happy being murdered and trying to escape.

In the close future traders will be sanctioned, if they won't prove the satisfaction of being robbed, because for pirates the act of robbery is no longer sufficient, they want the gratitude for it.

It is believed, that the only way to roleplay is writing. Without this no proper interaction. But there are more forms of RP. An escape or a fire back are also forms of RP.

Freelancer is a game not only for PvP and blue messages. It gives much more possibilities to interact and fun. Trading, collecting money, discovering, friendly interactions, base building, supplying are also ways to play this game.

Meeting with a pirate on the discovery is an obvious situation: pay as soon as possible, or die. Often it is not possible to write anything, because before you can post an impatient pirate shoots at you a torpedo. It is one-sided RP, trader has to only play a role - say ok and pay money. Is it fun for him? I guess not, but who cares, he's meant to be a loser.

I have a lot of traders, but I do not play them, because it is frustrating. Not only, that economics has little sensen now, it's still the hordes of pirates.
Discovery is a server for unlawfull characters, it is more fun to play here a bad character. It is waste of time and nerves to play as a trader.

So, I understand players who quietly boycott the pirates. I'm not saying this is good, but I understand.

[Boldimore]

Anyone who actually believes that piracy is a one-sided destructive player interaction needs to go to their doctor about removing ten-foot-long foreign objects from certain lower body cavities.

At worst, you pay the guy his three million credits and continue your trading. At best, you get to roleplay on a roleplaying server. Funny, that.

*cough* 10 million

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[Tutashkhia]

There were some threads about this matter, and still there's nothing improved.

But I think those traders who're not talkative at all, mostly are newbies/amateurs. Or maybe they're calling for reinforcement and thinking in such way they would manage to stretch time till the lawful forces arrive. And If they're silent to stretch time,then they must be really the stupidest players.

-What if trader refused stopping or following your orders / following your RP aswell ?
-Either you make them talk or do what "being a pirate" means.

[Altejago]

I simply don't roleplay with you Spazzy as you're a cheating sod.

That and you are only in it for the cheap thrills as described in your OP.

I know this, you know this. All you're looking for is your cheap thrill at someone elses expense.

Christ, I even RP with Snak3 over ingame interaction with you.

Why? Because despite most of us having our behavioral and attitude issues with each other, there is always a high level of skepticism in dealing with any of your characters after knowing you are far more than capable of always winning your fights through nefarious means such as cheating or lag bugging in your light fighters.

So yeah, I refuse to even acknowledge your presence and will happily sacrifice playing on the server when I know you're likely to rear your ugly head.

So as the bottom line, it is players like you that make most traders (and new folks as they're your primary targets) be who they are in-game.

Do us a favour Spazzy a rack off already.

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[sindroms]

Wow. Captain rageface seems butthurt about something again.



EDIT: Name my characters. Since you seem to be ''ignoring them'' or ''not coming online'' when you see them.
Do it and I will consider your reply feasible.

EDIT2: Actually, that goes for everyone claiming how they are specifically ignoring my pirate characters. Name them.
Trying to point fingers at my roleplay quality without knowing whether or not it is me, whenever you meet a random pirate, is utterly retarded.

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[McNeo]

You act like an idiot as a person, without consideration or regard for other players, and you wonder why people don't want to play with you as a player, if they know it's you?

Why? The quality of your RP is secondary if nobody likes you enough to give you the time of day.

[Steven.Wolf]

Discovery is a server for unlawfull characters, it is more fun to play here a bad character. It is waste of time and nerves to play as a trader.

Lol, from who you gonna demand and commit piracy on when there are no traders, miners, civilians or whatever?

In other words - In order for the "bad" to exist, there must be "good".

[sindroms]

You act like an idiot as a person, without consideration or regard for other players, and you wonder why people don't want to play with you as a player, if they know it's you?

Why? The quality of your RP is secondary if nobody likes you enough to give you the time of day.

Allllright then. Alllllllllllllllllright then. It is 7am on a monday, I am fueled by sleepiness and cheap coffee and one redbull. So here we go.




I will say this right now, I will be the first to say that what I said in the OP was an utterly retarded thing to say, especially with the whole "RP Purity" Disco has developed over the years. Obviously, I will not go all ''lol jk, I didnt meant that'', no, I meant ever word of it.

I rarely pirate for the RP, because that is not where I get that satisfaction from. I mostly pirate for some cheap income and the blue messages.

However, what I did NOT imply here, was that I do not roleplay on these characters. Even my Xenos, which I use just to frak with traders, even those give plenty of roleplay before sending the filthy Kusarian and his stale rice back to Kyushu in an escape pod.

You will NEVER see me not roleplay my characters, no matter how mundane the action seems considering the set of circumstances at the time, be it a group fight or whatever. Out of all the sanctions I have gotten over the years, you will find only one, where I had not given enough roleplay before an engagement and that one too was a bit sketchy.

I could go out at a limb here and fraps my piracy encounters and my so called ''second grade RP'', but I doubt that you'd take it seriously. How about you just look up some of my old 15min footage. I tend to cover a wide variety of piracy types, from the regular asshole pirate, who will make you drop all your cargo and make you shoot it, to the guy in a starflyer, forcing you to buy tickets to his concert for 5 000$ a piece.

I am just going to sound like a pillock for saying this, but I can bet that my second grade roleplay is still better than half of the dross you'd encounter ingame these days. Yes, I just said that. RP elitism at its finest, hurr durr. If you want to blame me, blame me for that.


Frankly, McNeo, you can call me what you want to call me, but I will simply ignore it anyway. Because first of all, I have all rights to dismiss any critique I get, because it feels good. Secondly, you have never encountered me ingame or in real life to say that. Thirdly, you do not know any of my characters, unless you are referring to every single pirate you have met during the last few months, (granted only if you are actually one of the vets, who bother to play on the server these days, instead of backing up arguments on things you have encountered years ago) and blaming me for being one of them only because there is a chance that I might have been one of those encounters.



Not many things can get me riled up. I completely do not mind anything said about the factions I make, about the people I fly or the things I have done or in fact might do in the future.
What really pisses me off, however, is when the quality of my roleplay comes under question by people, who do not know me, have never met me and doubt that they ever will, considering this sort of feedback comes mostly from 08-10 people, most of which do not even PLAY the damn game anymore.

Want to judge me for what I do? Come fly with me. Ingame. With teamspeak on. Do it. You might be surprised, I know plenty have been.

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[Arioch]

OYE! Ya'll need to calm yourselves. This last page has been full of trolling/name calling/E-peen waving, and I'm too damn tired to deal with it anymore. Keep it civil, otherwise go make a sandwich/grab a beer/smoke a bit/whatever will keep you calm and reasonable...

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