Piracy roleplaying

[Hielor]

please, explain to me how would you imagine a perfect trader-pirate encounter. feel free to do so in PM.

Pirate stops trader. Some RP takes place that's more than "20milrdai". Trader ends up giving the pirate somewhere between 0-50% (depending on the RP) of what he'll be making that run in the form of credits or cargo. Trader and pirate go their separate ways, perhaps with some parting cracks or insults.

Both parties get RP, and no one was a jerk to anyone else.

May I direct your attention to http://discoverygc.com/wiki/index.php/Basi...rating_Tutorial :

Once you have made sure you can ask for money, do check on the trader's ship and rank. You may ask up to three million for traders, who are flying Adv. Trains or Zoner Whales, but the higher you ask, the less the chance, that they will pay. Remember you are not the only player who has pirated him in this run.
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The most common demand is a million, but some demand even less. The percentage of traders, who pay half a million to you is much larger, than for higher demands. In the long run, you will make more money by doing so and the traders themselves will not feel too upset and will probably pay again, if you happen to catch them on another day.

So, at some point in the past there was actually some degree of respect for the person playing the trader.

This apparently disappeared, and now most people who play pirates are just looking to screw/grief traders and don't really care about the RP.