Average pirate demand amount? Noticing a pattern here...

[silverleaf]

Right, all my mates who do encounter pirates complain about lolwutty 2milordai pirates. Why is it I almost always get more (MUCH more) along the lines of 6-10m when I do encounter a pirate? Is it because I pass through liberty and near pirate homes a lot? I mean even though their RP could use work, the junker-pirate ID'ed guys out in the middle of nowhere make those 2milordais look so much better in comparison. And these guys don't rp either. Come up, start shootin, 'pay up' and you have approximally 3 seconds before they shoot again. If you mistype their insanely long name, too bad.
No RP, no talking, if you start bargaining/trying to RP, boom.

So yeah how much do you normally get pirated of? And why does it seem that this happens to me a lot more in the systems around liberty? I seldom suffer from such attacks (only the normal 2-4mil ones) elsewhere. Maybe 1 out of 5. Unlike the 3 outta 5 around the systems surrounding NY (usually not NY itself).

And when I do get cargo pirated, even though they can carry less than me, they still demand ALL my cargo, and blow up the rest. End up having to crash into the sun or something to redo.

Right now, I moved OUT of liberty except pass through a tiny bit of one system, and life is good again... as you can see by the lack of my rage posts of the past.

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Scavengers of the Abyss - A Freelancer Short Story

[Elsdragon]

Silver, you lsot the game. you have once again failed to see what this game is about. 10 mil for a demand is extortionate though....

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No longer a slave to the man!

[Lenny Bruce]

Life is all about negotiation.

The dead pay poorly.

A good pirate knows what amount to accept, and / or when to make an example out of you.

Like dealing with cops, your attitude has an impact on the outcome. Give him a reason to tax the hec outta ya, he will. Don't know if this is your situation or not. Just sayin'.

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<span style="font-family:Comic Sans Ms">I love the smell of carbon emissions in the morning...</span>

<span style="font-family:Comic Sans Ms">It smells like... WIN! Or something.</span>

[Dab]

3 million for transports of 4000-5000 cargo, 2mil for 3000-4000, 1mil for 3000-4000, don't pirate anything under 3,000 cargo except for cargo or if it's ore. (This is normal cargo units, 1000 units of a commod taking 5 units of space per commodity unit is considered 5000 cargo by me.)

Cargo - Enough to fill my cargo up, or if they are transporting something I don't like (like artifacts and I'm on my GC), I demand all of it and then make it go boom.

Getting pirated; Doesn't happen. I'm either careful and smart enough to avoid them all, or I've got escorts that are good at what they do.

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[silverleaf]

Dab, I wish all my pirates were like you. I really do.
And when my cargo goes boom, its FISH FOOD. Come on, whats so offensive about FISH FOOD?

And once again, your missing the point/reading between the lines/misinterpretation completely astounds me elsdragon and lenny.
I was shipping fish food from kusari to liberty (california) and forgot what metal up. Its my (then) corp's RP route.

EDIT: think the metal was deut

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Scavengers of the Abyss - A Freelancer Short Story

[Exsiled_one]

Third of the cargo, unless it's a contraband.
If he's running I blow him up. No second chances.

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<span style="color:#33CC00">I AM GIVING AWAY MONEY TO CREATIVE MINDS*</span>

[Death.RunningVerminator]

About 2mil usually, and i don't ask for cargo at all.

[Bauer]

You know, in my year and a bit of being here, I have only met two lolwutter 2milrdai pirates, and neither of them were in Liberty.

When I meet nice pirates, the average is around 500k to 2 mil, with the lowest being 1337 credits.

I only charge 500k-1 mil on my Rogue, depending if they aren't annoying me. I only cargo pirate if it's ore and I find a merc/freelancer in a transport.

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[10:10:28 AM] Josh (Dejavu): Bauer is legendary to the LPI, I joined because I wanted to be that epic.

[silverleaf]

Well then why do I get hit so often by 10milordais on my perfectly normal RP route? Oh yeah and if you hessitate/try to talk they start shooting again and tell you to shut up and pay up.

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Scavengers of the Abyss - A Freelancer Short Story

[Cryer Pharmaceuticals!]

anyone in a 4k+ transport crying about anything less than 5 million is a terrible human being.


if it's the attitude that's bad, then maybe that's another thing.

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