Piracy roleplaying

[xiphos]

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.

Well, i play both sides traders and pirates, like many other players here. I met so many Traders with my different pirate chara`s. Some of them don`t want to pay 1 mil credits demand for a cargo`s worth of 8 million and more (and lv80+) and try to run to a base. What should i say about that? I sit in my pirate ship and think: " What a douchebag, i kill you now". So don`t talk about the lost respect of pirate players or something like that. I mean i don`t like the "drop all your niob ore" thing, But when i see that the trader is kiddin me with a ridicliuos amount of money for his cargo/shipfe, i call that disrespect from the trader ( i met a lot of those traders ) and then i blew him up. Or when he try to thrust away. After i killed the trader, i saw a LOT of green msg like "Why u kill me?", "i report you!" or much better from a player who was not involved: "Why you killed my friend? I come and kill you with my Capship".

And it depends on the character of the pirate. What did you expect from a Xenos or the Farmers Alliance for example? The Xenos wants to blew up the cargo of traders to destroy the LIberty Economy so far as i know. The Farmers Alliance don`t want Gaijin`s in Kusari and they don`t want that they come back. So drop all your cargo or die. When "King" Rorry or other pirates wants to play a "drop all your cargo" pirate, it`s their decision. Not yours. (And Rorry don`t want always all of the traders cargo).
Simple answer. You had Niob ore on board and lost the cargo? Tough luck. Hire a scout/escort next time.

@ Angelz: When i met a "2millordai" noob, the first thing i do is to thrust away. Because i know i can`t expect much RP from him. There are many good RP Pirates outthere, same with the Traders.

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