Sick of ooRP traders

[Anathema]

Bad bad pirates forcing people to swear and break rules.

There are always 2 people in any conflict. Sometimes, the fault really is on one players side (traders refusing to RP, pirates demanding unreasonable things), and sometimes both partys have an equal measure of fault for a situation going horribly wrong.

The main problem with pirate-trader relations is that basically that the pirate can do what he wants - the trader never ever has any chance of interacting with the pirate as if he had any real options other than to comply with the pirate... one of my most stupid moments in this game was when a pirate destroyed me even though under fire by 2 other players in battleships... I had no cargo and refused to pay 5 million, making a run when 2 battlesips dropped out of the disrupted trade lane, helping me.:D

If pirates - and I mean all of them - do not show some self discipline and restrainment when interacting with other players, there will always be traders out there who will have no interest in proper interaction with them.

I am not saying there are no lolwuts among traders. I am just suggesting that there would be less of them if both sides worked on doing proper RP with each other, always keeping in mind that the fun of the player behind the character is more important than strict adherence to (virtual-) character behavior.