Wonder when people (-> pirates) realize that always going "several million credits / drop all cargo or die" as well as the metagaming "log pirates along the route to pirate mutiple times in a row" has driven away a lot of the traders over time...
Really don't know what people expect when they behave like that all the time. Traders aren't cattle, at some point they get bored of always ending up in the same kind of encounter, with little of what the server is about (-> RP) actually happening to them. I do understand that silent traders suck, but still, whenever I met them I tried to give them more than one chance to interact with me. Then again, I rarely blew people up as a pirate anyway...hm...not like I did much pirating.
And for finding traders ... how about you search a little harder? Traders have to find their routes as well, you know.
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