Sick of ooRP traders

[Mímir]

Its hard though, pirating, and to some level you might just very well be forced to take a lolwut-approach.

For instance, yesterday I stopped two trains in my Sabre, and asked them for 2 million each. The one guy negotiated, and I said alright to 1 million each (a ridiculously low amount IMO), and he brought up the trade screen and kept lingering forever, so I had to shut that down and told him to transfer the cash fast. Then I get no response whatsoever, and after I tried communicating with them for a while I start shooting up one of the transports who still keeps 100% radio silence. I felt like blasting him out of the sky to teach him a lesson, but then another (experienced) player shows up on the scene and tell me to be nice to the two chaps, that they are new or whatever (but they still both had trains).

I decided to be Mr. Nice Guy, break off my attack and go to Cortez, met an RP-willing trader who informed me he didn't have cash on his character and he would get a friend to transfer him some. Surprise surprise, 1 minute later a bunter shows up, guns blazing.

So this experience tought me that as a pirate, if you want results, in most cases you have to be absolutely ruthless to oorp- and rp-traders alike. The moronic "2milordai" works in the sense that both oorp and rp traders will know that you truly mean it.

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