it makes me wonder

[BaconSoda]

I think the thought that a pirate doesn't profit from destroying a transport comes from Discovery's inflated economy. The whole campaign, Trent complains that he lost his one million credits. To us in the game world, this one million credits doesn't mean anything, but to a Rogue Werewolf, destroying a trader and getting 70 units of Light Arms or Gold which he can then pawn off to his buddies is like making a small fortune. Heck, in vanilla pirate and terrorist was synonymous, with the only difference being that pirates just blew things up for the money in salvaging the wreckage. So, to us, in our bombers, we can't really fathom that 90 gold units from that transport will actually benefit us, but to the characters inside of the bombers, those 90 gold units can be their paycheck for the next week or month.

For the sake of fun, though, I think we inflated the prices of pirates because every trader can always afford to pay 500,000 credits, and if everyone just payed there would be no fun.

But because the rules restrict pirates from destroying a target who payed, terrorists simply can destroy people, which is, again, a gameplay mechanic. The problem with terrorism is the respawn button: most people just don't understand that their character EXPLODED. Very little thought goes into "How would my character feel about exploding?" because it's so easy to hit respawn and just forget about it.

And before people call me a hypocrite, the last time I did explode was in New London on that big ol' Battleship. In that kind of situation, there was no escape, and, lets face it, running would have been a bad idea at that point anyway. Before that, the last time I exploded was on my Phantom fighter in New York when I ran into a mine spam about two months ago. I do make it a point to run if I'm going to lose.

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.