' Wrote:That would be to make the commonly traded commodities cost a lot more to buy (and probably make bases consume less of them in return for the increased cost), so it actually becomes cheaper to pay the pirate in absolute terms, rather than in waffley opportunity-cost terms. Then of course, pirate demands go up as well, but there's scope to make some cash without relying on the trader's emotional, rather than economic, status.
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