(10-03-2017, 05:02 AM)Daimyo Kijima {ToI} Wrote: I didn't actually get a chance to issue a credit demand (which would have been 0 as he wasn't Samura anyway) as they wouldn't stay still long enough to get through the RP of a cargo scan, let alone a credit demand.
If you knew he wasn't Samura and you wouldn't charge him anything, then why did you go after him in the first place?
BD can pirate any transports that enter their ZoI, ToI (us) only pirate if certain criteria have been met, looking at the screenshots from yesterday, the transport was actually carrying furs, which would have been purchased at Tomioka, a Samura planet. Meaning if we had stopped him and he said that he purchased them there we would have fined him a proportionate amount to his cargo 1.2mil for every 1000 units. We do let non-Samura IDs get around this by lying and saying that they bought them somewhere else, not Samura so that they can leave without paying a fine.
To clarify we stop everyone, to scan their cargo and ask them where they are selling/buying it, we stopped him to see if he was Samura. we stop everyone, that is what we do and as Snak said, we do it for the player interaction. We weren't trigger happy at all. He was asked to stop 3 times, trigger-happy would be writing the minimum 2 lines of RP and then pew pewing, we tried to stop him and talk with him but he refused to stay put and listen to the pirate with bigger guns XD
Ultimately though he will of now (hopefully) learned that running away from pirates after they have said "this is your final warning, you need to stop now" results in being engaged and his next pirate encounter should be much more pleasant.