"Cut your engines or I'll open fire!"

[Sabru]

I'm quite pragmatic about this, I might be breaking some rules but haven't been sanctioned (yet).

I'll start out with a "Cut your engines"/"Stop"/"Halt" depending on how much time I've got, if they do that I'll RP with them and take my time (quite often resulting in traders calling in backup but whatever); if they don't stop (even if all I said was "halt"), I shoot the trader and only stop when he starts talking and/or his ship stops moving.

If there were as many rules to force traders to play "the way they are meant to be played", just like pirates have rules to force them to play in certain ways, the sanction section of the forum would be flooded with traders.

i agree with anaximander. there needs to be a balance, because currently its not balanced. there are plenty of rules to force pirates to play "fairly" but a trader can just keep flying or respond with "//just kill me anyway".

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