(02-06-2017, 10:13 AM)Laura C. Wrote: What did you expect when you started to move? First and basic rule of interaction with pirate is that you must stop and don´t move until you are told you can, otherwise you will get shot. Always.
Also, I don´t know what ID those two were flying, but I suppose it was Liberty Rogues? Those are scoundrels so what they did perfectly fits their RP role. They came for your money. It is same situation like when you walk through some darker part of the town and suddenly two scoundrels appear in front of you with pistols and ask for you wallet. Would you tell them "Good Evening May I ask What your business here is this Evening?" and then start to walk away? Yea, it would very likely end bad.
Seems some players still forget that proper RP does not have be only in form of twenty minutes of discussion. And that especially applies to pirates. Generally, this behaviour is actually against their RP role. Unless it´s pirate which wants lawfuls to appear because he wants shooting or is so cocky that he does not care, they want to get money as fast as possible and disappear before lawfuls arrive. Simple as that.
(02-06-2017, 11:25 AM)PRJKTLRD Wrote: First of all, piracy is a form of RP encounter. Nothing OOC or OORP there. You were given proper inRP conversation and if you weren't interested in PVP you could have give them what they asked for. If you didn't have any credits, you could've just go and ask OOC like: //Hey, I don't have any credits, could you let me go?;
Though if you had credits, this is bad way to attempt to get out of piracy. It's same if you avoid encounter after you realized you will be blown up except, if it is really real life matter that forced you to leave the encounter.
Second, their business was already clear as they made a demand for you.
Third, if you wonder if that is okay, they gave you like 30 seconds to comply and asked for one million. I for example ask from 3 to 10 millions depending on the cargo and sometimes, if my RP obliges me, I demand all of cargo to be jettisoned and destroyed. If I face trader that is very poor, like in freighter, I ignore it.
If you want to avoid piracy, I suggest making some good routes.
(02-06-2017, 02:14 PM)Jack_Henderson Wrote: It's by far not a bad pirate encounter.
A 1 million demand is very low, and you should just pay (if you haven't just restarted the game and you are making money in penny).
If you move, you will always be killed.
So your best bet is: roleplay, roleplay... and then either do what they say, or shoot/run (and likely die).
In Disco, expect more demands of up to 10 million, or "drop cargo" - so you should be happy with low demands. And they even typed full sentences. So... ye. Not a bad encounter at all.
This..., all of this. I couldn't explain it better myself.