Piracy roleplaying

[dodike]

The problem is that traders fly like a mindless sheep not looking ahead and expect a pirate to ask for some pocket change.
Then we have escort pilots being unhappy and unemployed because it's cheaper to pay an occasional pirate rather than escorts.

A thread like this one pops up periodically and yet nothing changes because Disco is pretty much self-regulating in this. Pirates run out of pray and go easier with the demands, people are encouraged to trade more, pirates take the opportunity to make decent money and ask more. And so the circle continues.

Also, dividing players on pirates and traders is ridiculous because most of the players have both pirate and trader characters and pirate each other. That polite navy pilot who just saved your butt might be the very jerk that pirates you on your route. Different characters require different mindsets. That doesn't mean that somebody wants to screw with you.