Piracy roleplaying

[angelz]

Bah, what a long read...

The main reason I made this thread was cos I was nearly the same situation as the neon guy.

The thing is, mostly both pirates and traders are in it for money. And it leads to a magic circle. Pirates ask ridiculous amounts of cash, so traders turn into silent traders, cos they know they can try to run and die, or just die.. or pay probably more than they can afford.

On the other hand if more traders paid. Then pirates could afford to ask less. Like now maybe 1 out of 10 traders pay.. so Pirate asks 10 mil from that one trader. If all of them payed, pirate could ask 1mil of each and get the same money. And it would be more likely that they would pay.

The thing is Pirates need to understand they should not put traders out of business, cos that will put pirates out of business... (Freighter runs make some 500k-1M, its not reasonable to pay 2M) Scan, evaluate, ask for reasonable tax.

Traders on the other hand should really understand that running and being jerk pisses of pirates in general. And that with time has lead to this situation. There are really options to ask for escort, though low lvl players might not be able to afford that too.

Though not all players are so sociable. They dont want to write on forums for bounties.. or maybe its early morning or late night where there really aint no escorts. Actually the pirate/trader/police ratios are kinda off...

But sadly it seems it is the way it is and would be hard to find a way to change it, cos 90% of pirates/traders probably just dont read forums or dont care.


Also about some punishments. It probably would help yes, but has one huge downside - If some moron just blows you up. You got punished for that too. yes, you can report, but you still have to wait that hour/loose more cash/ship, or whatever...

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