The next time i see a '5m or die'

[Tenacity]

I'd at least like to hear 'cut your engines' instead of 'halt!' from the police, and pirates should be demanding cargo or something, not credits.

If you really wanted to make money, you'd be trading, not pirating. Face it, if you demand money you're not RP'ing very well.

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[Dab]

Yeah.. I usually scan him, then say; #,### units of [blank] is a # million credit tax. (Example; 5,000 units of Diamonds is a 3 million credit tax.)

If people don't halt like I say after I CD them, I just type; 3 million tax. Since I'm not allowed to kill him until I say that.. I wish I was allowed to just kill someone after saying halt and they refuse.. >.<

If there are two of us pirates, or the trader isn't very good at dodging CDs, I still do line #1.

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[sovereign]

Umm, think mugging? And you can't really haul that much cargo in a fighter...

Also, most "Halt!" is done because of time concerns, usually because the person in question drops out of the trade lane, hits cruise, and is already at the mooring fixture before you can type "Cut your engines."

If I have time, I try to go for more words rather than less, but realize feasibility.

For piracy, however, you can ask for a "Donation" rather easily as you have looser time constraints. You can even have it typed up just waiting for someone to fall out of the lane you just hacked. I do it all the time, its a lot easier than police work often is. Well okay, Manhattan is an exception, but that's because of the Cruisers...

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[Boss]

Well, how about this from an Outcast?

"Please sir, will you donate a smidgen of cash to me? My family is starving, and the Corsairs have stopped up the routes to bring in food."

Alternatively: "Hey! You! Cut your engines or I'll blast them off. I need money for my kids."

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[Jihadjoe]

Y'know what I did to the last person who gave that line to me... blew him up with my pirate transport.

"2m or die"
"neither thank you very much"
*makes attempt at running*
"Ok then" says pirate "lets do this the fun way"
kaaaabbboooommm!!!!

"//erm... what?!?!"

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[Tenacity]

Y'know what I did to the last person who gave that line to me... blew him up with my pirate transport.

"2m or die"
"neither thank you very much"
*makes attempt at running*
"Ok then" says pirate "lets do this the fun way"
kaaaabbboooommm!!!!

"//erm... what?!?!"

I would have, had the pirates in question not been flying friggen gunboats.

nobody pirates in fighters anymore it seems.

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[sovereign]

I would have, had the pirates in question not been flying friggen gunboats.

nobody pirates in fighters anymore it seems.

I do!

:D

Odin packs are very effective. Lugers pull shields apart like crazy, I tell you.




And if Xoria can pirate in a starflier, do you really need that Gunboat? A VHF/Bomber is understandable if you aren't *that* godlike, but still, Gunboat is overkill.

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[Dab]

nobody pirates in fighters anymore it seems.

*Waves*

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[song]

If you can type all that, I'll pay you double.

I'm gonna practice that--now I guess I better start pirating.

Makes not to ask sovereign for 5 mil (which he will double).

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[Tenacity]

I'll admit, even i'm guilty of pirating in a gunboat (bloodsail flew a rogue gunboat) - but I never used the 'X credits or die', or even anything close. When I did resort to pirating, i'd either ask for rum (because pirates run on rum!) or for a small amount (100-300 units) of cargo from the trader.

It seems to me that 90% of the pirates out there now are flying gunboats, because they cant pirate in anything bigger, and are simply using it as a way of either pvp whoring traders or making money without effort.

On a side note, I did not pay the idiot AFA that tried to pirate me, I gave him a good 10 minute run around of kyushu before dying, and only ended up losing about 1.5 million credits worth of ammo and cargo, and a few system jumps worth of time, by dying.

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