Then avoid making assumptions that someone wanting interaction and thus stoping non-prime target and unable to get it from silent trader is trigger-happy pirate. You are not doing any favours by suggesting that pirates should not stop random transports that are not yet 5k cashcowsm The sooner traders get accustomed to interactions with pirates the better
Somehow Threads gets worse and worse nowadays first why pvp is so damn difficult, now why is the game so toxic to new players. Compared to Discovery with it fancy rules and stuff, servers with a Community like HHC are a harsh place where you had to etablish yourself or just leave. Well if you die to a Pirate its simply your fault since you were not able to cooperate with the person behind it. I remember how many times people switched after my trader to kill me or tried to tax me. I don't know if I actually think that the game is toxic to new players after all these years. "Trigger happy" if I already read that, what do people always expect? To tell them their entire lifestory before shooting?
(10-03-2017, 05:02 AM)Daimyo Kijima {ToI} Wrote: I didn't actually get a chance to issue a credit demand (which would have been 0 as he wasn't Samura anyway) as they wouldn't stay still long enough to get through the RP of a cargo scan, let alone a credit demand.
If you knew he wasn't Samura and you wouldn't charge him anything, then why did you go after him in the first place?
BD can pirate any transports that enter their ZoI, ToI (us) only pirate if certain criteria have been met, looking at the screenshots from yesterday, the transport was actually carrying furs, which would have been purchased at Tomioka, a Samura planet. Meaning if we had stopped him and he said that he purchased them there we would have fined him a proportionate amount to his cargo 1.2mil for every 1000 units. We do let non-Samura IDs get around this by lying and saying that they bought them somewhere else, not Samura so that they can leave without paying a fine.
To clarify we stop everyone, to scan their cargo and ask them where they are selling/buying it, we stopped him to see if he was Samura. we stop everyone, that is what we do and as Snak said, we do it for the player interaction. We weren't trigger happy at all. He was asked to stop 3 times, trigger-happy would be writing the minimum 2 lines of RP and then pew pewing, we tried to stop him and talk with him but he refused to stay put and listen to the pirate with bigger guns XD
Ultimately though he will of now (hopefully) learned that running away from pirates after they have said "this is your final warning, you need to stop now" results in being engaged and his next pirate encounter should be much more pleasant.
Thanks for all your replies, and i understand you want to be a badass pirate, but when you demand money from me, and you fly in a 100mil ship and weapons big enough to blow up a moon, it's just sad .
Come at me BRO .. in a CTE-6000 "Eagle" with normal weapons and no antimatter class destroyer hellfire planet killer weapon, then you will be a pirate, and i show up in my mammoth with lvl 7 class turrets.
Be a Corsairs pirate and fight some House Police. Leave the freelancer to do what they do best,get money to buy bigger ships , and then maybe you can play pirate when i come to your system in my 200mil Zoner Cruiser flashing my big wallet ....
(10-03-2017, 06:12 PM)Blue_Rhino Wrote: Thanks for all your replies, and i understand you want to be a badass pirate, but when you demand money from me, and you fly in a 100mil ship and weapons big enough to blow up a moon, it's just sad .
Come at me BRO .. in a CTE-6000 "Eagle" with normal weapons and no antimatter class destroyer hellfire planet killer weapon, then you will be a pirate, and i show up in my mammoth with lvl 7 class turrets.
Be a Corsairs pirate and fight some House Police. Leave the freelancer to do what they do best,get money to buy bigger ships , and then maybe you can play pirate when i come to your system in my 200mil Zoner Cruiser flashing my big wallet ....
Ahh okay, maybe it wasn't me that pirated you then, we use bombers, not "class destroyer hellfire planet killer" I also think people who pirate in caps are scrubs.
(10-03-2017, 06:12 PM)Blue_Rhino Wrote: Thanks for all your replies, and i understand you want to be a badass pirate, but when you demand money from me, and you fly in a 100mil ship and weapons big enough to blow up a moon, it's just sad .
Come at me BRO .. in a CTE-6000 "Eagle" with normal weapons and no antimatter class destroyer hellfire planet killer weapon, then you will be a pirate, and i show up in my mammoth with lvl 7 class turrets.
Be a Corsairs pirate and fight some House Police. Leave the freelancer to do what they do best,get money to buy bigger ships , and then maybe you can play pirate when i come to your system in my 200mil Zoner Cruiser flashing my big wallet ....
Ahh okay, maybe it wasn't me that pirated you then, we use bombers, not "class destroyer hellfire planet killer" I also think people who pirate in caps are scrubs.
So Bro , what weapons are on your bomber then ?? just curious you know that the 65 hit points my weapons does must scare you then .
If you expect people to be lenient towards you just because you are not yet rich then you are painfully wrong. You ought to adapt to situation. Instead of running away, roleplay as if you are poor. Make a deal with would-be-pirate if possible. I remember once trying to extort few millions out of player who didn't have it yet. We made an inRP deal that his character will pay up later on or there will be grave consequences. And so he did.
Possibilities are endless as long as you put effort and work your imagination. Of course there has to be nice player behind harsh pirate character, but if you should not complain if you refuse to put in effort yourself.
(10-03-2017, 06:23 PM)Blue_Rhino Wrote: So Bro , what weapons are on your bomber then ?? just curious you know that the 65 hit points my weapons does must scare you then .
I run double hellfire rocket pods to make sure that people who run, don't run for very long.
As a returning player myself from a very long hiatus I have also encountered pirates whilst I'm trading.
The first was in liberty where I stopped when he said stop and when he demanded 5 million credits I asked him if he could give me a better offer, to which he offered to let me go free IF I worked for him for the next little while. Which I did as his hostage and even made some money from it.
Next was in Rheinland where I was asked to stop and I got caught when my tradelane bugged, I didn't run. He demanded some credits, in response I demanded 10 times the amount of credits from him for wasting my time and hurled mountains of abuse his way, after which he threatened to blow up my ship so I paid him and warned him that should we ever cross paths again I would bring a bazooka and use it on his cat.
In both of these interactions the pirate players would've been more than justified in blowing up my ship without skipping a heartbeat, yet they didn't. This leaves me to conclude my experience has been very different from you. There must be a reason for this and the most likely reason is because I stopped and RPed with them.
(10-03-2017, 06:28 PM)SnakThree Wrote: If you expect people to be lenient towards you just because you are not yet rich then you are painfully wrong. You ought to adapt to situation. Instead of running away, roleplay as if you are poor. Make a deal with would-be-pirate if possible. I remember once trying to extort few millions out of player who didn't have it yet. We made an inRP deal that his character will pay up later on or there will be grave consequences. And so he did.
Possibilities are endless as long as you put effort and work your imagination. Of course there has to be nice player behind harsh pirate character, but if you should not complain if you refuse to put in effort yourself.
You sir are right.
But we can't all be fast to text when you are having trouble just to write in English, and need google translate to make your self understandable . I want to roleplay i just take a bit longer