Piracy roleplaying

[Hielor]

Please tell me why I should ever EVER give a trader a chance?

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Lets see:

Choice 1: Pirate in LF and have a chance to die from trader and not make money...

Choice 2: Pirate in GB, make sure trader has no chance so that he pays and I get out alive...

There's a lot of stuff in between LFs and GBs. Bombers, for one. Ptrans/Ptrain, for that cargo piracy of yours.

Really mate. I want you to think things through. YOU KNOW WHAT I WOULD LOVE? Traders with escorts... AKA Traders with a 'chance.' |Convoy| Is a good example of smart traders, I've never successfully gotten them...

Escorts are worthless. Scouts, on the other hand, are not--but then I don't get any RP with the pirate.

I enjoy RPing with a pirate who's in it for the RP. I do not enjoy being bent over by a pirate who's only in it for a blue message or the money (seriously, if you want money, go trade, it's faster).

All a trader has to do to survive is be smart. If I'm pirating in a GB, and you know pirates are doing it, then make the logical decision to hire an escort. Its cheaper and can save you oh so much...

Again, escorts are worthless, scouts are not, and I'm not going to pay someone so I can have the privilege of not getting any RP on a trip.

I *have* gotten smart, and I've stopped going through Frankfurt.

I know you get frustrated because GB's (or pirates in general) have bigger guns, I've been in your position. You have to adjust to the situations (eg. use escorts/put up bounties/ect.) just like I've had to adjust to more and more military coming after me (eg upgrade armor/get some fellas to join me/ect.)

Or you could, you know, not escalate it in the first place, and just do your cargo piracy in a Ptrans instead.

Remember, you can always learn from every situation, and learn how to effectives avoid bad situations in the future. Its not gona be as easy as *pew pew rocks, lulz my way to sell point*... Not as long as I'm around that is, I want people to apply their mind to each situation.

There's not much room for me to "apply my mind" when I run into someone in a gunboat who goes basically "20milrdai".

Now thats just plain old oorp logic right there... Granted you are correct. But what trader, inRP, would drop his cargo/destroy it. Then let himself die. That'd be one crazy-minded trader...

Hey, if I can't have it, you can't have it either.

Can't you, you know like loose sometimes? Loosing in a computer game doesn't really hurt that much.
I try to win when trading but sometimes I just have to accept a defeat and move on.

The trader already is losing when he runs into a pirate. Denying the pirate anything material out of the bargain is just a little bit less losing, especially if the pirate's being an OORP jerk about the matter.