Is it wrong for a pirate to pirate me for all my cargo ?

[sovereign]

The IMG did massively bounty Yarr, he's every right to be nasty in return.

And yeah, it's legit. It's generally bad form at best to demand more cargo than you can fit unless the trader's being a complete jerk (not really a rare occurrence, sadly...), but 1.7k is a roughly Raba-sized chunk.

Sorry mate, but it happens. It takes him awhile to take the ore back somewhere else, that gives you some time to mine safely before he returns; use that time to get what you can and scram before he gets back.

Alternatively, you can A) start running as soon as they show up at 14k, or B) immediately offer half of your cargo before they say anything. The latter doesn't always work, but a lot of (non-idiot) pirates will take it as a sign of respect and settle for that; you don't have to always suffer because most traders apparently would rather deny the pirate than use common sense (bragging about wasting 30 mins of pirate time by running to a system wall... I still have trouble figuring out what insane troll logic makes that happen...), some pirates are so desperate for prey that says stuff (other than "I report" or ")))" anyway, I get a lot of those on my Das Wilde...) and/or respects them that they'll gladly take less than they came for. Can't hurt if you aren't running, anyway.


EDIT:

Not taking that bet.

Kudos to Pelt/Snoozer for giving me an "oh...CRAP" moment while pirating, and for the fun insult fest afterwords.

I litterally chuckled at "lapig"

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