Rule 5.6

[Tobi44]

If the trader has won the encounter, why would he NEED to come back and pew the pirate? they do not need to rub salt in the wound nor add injury to insult. they have WON.

inrp, that character would dock at the base, go into the bar, file a report with a computer terminal, which the local lawdogs would use as justification for the next budgetary increase. the lawdogs wouldnt come charging out there, because the pirate would usually have busted a move to richer grounds - BECAUSE THE TRADER GOT AWAY.

oorp, the trader has been handed a free pass. they can continue grinding out the cash.

imho, jumping into another ship to attack the pirate is

1. bad rp
2. bad gamesmanship
3. a lolwut thing to do
4. all of the above.

Agreed

But on both sides there are traders that have really bad/no Rp they just sit there and wait for you to make your demands and start shooting or try to escape.
And there are those pirates with little or no RP that just make demands and start shooting.

I dislike both those types of people although I do know there are more lolwut traders then there are pirates.
Fact is I know more pirates that ask for 1/2 million credits on traders that are even filled up with ore and the traders don't want to pay. Some how there is this hate on pirates when the trader full of ore gets killed because they wouldn't pay that amount.

You don't. Sometimes after surviving a pirate attack you would like to change character and play something else like the guy in situation described did. Though luck for the pirate that he happened to be where the player that ran away from him was.

When I pirate and a trader docks on me I think GG and leave to the trade lanes there are always traders coming through to pirate so why would most pirates wait?

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As much as I hate having to agree with Tobi, I agree with everything he said. Get off Newark and get out there ingame doing stuff. Seriously, I should charge you for parking