IMO, the pirate being able to demand the full values of a trader's cargo AT IT'S BEST SELLPOINT while in a place several systems from that sellpoint in frankly BS.
Sure, Gold Ore is worth a fortune when I get it Planet Honshu, (9929) but is of near zero value (250) in all but 4 systems on the entire map. Meaning a 5k transport full of Gold Ore Tau-29 is worth exactly 1.25 million total.
If you pirate me in Honshu, you've hit pay dirt, but almost anywhere else, it's just pretty to look at and nothing more.
The fact that InRP, the trader is just a corporate pilot driving the cargo to it's destination for a paycheck means that he's not a millionaire, doesn't own the cargo and can't meet outlandish demands other than to drop some cargo for the pirate for them to sell at a fence location. Cargo Piracy is, in fact, the only valid piracy InRP.
My point being, that /givecash demands are absolutely OORP. (example: "you're flying a Barge, you have Billions, 30 million is chump change for you." Yes, I've been told that by Pirates, supposedly InRP. And, FYI, those who have paid for a Barge no longer have Billions.)
Killing a trader because he won't give you tens of millions is, by definition, OORP and therefore is also BS.
The fact that we are "rich traders" (if even true) is OORP knowledge, and should be meaningless InRP.
Traders get trolled for acting in a non-RP fashion when, in fact, 90% of piracy on Disco is innately poor OORP nonsense.
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As a coni-sewer of pirating practice... not a practising pirate of course - no, never (cough), but a close observer I have insight of such matters.
A pirate relative... mate... some-one I once knew demanded 50 million from a certain trader in a barge who had a load of RA. Purchase price was 7.5 million SC. Cheaper to die than to pay. The certain trader related to the pirate that it seemed excessive and unfair. Said pirate shot him dead.
Moral of this story? Playing a pirated victim in RP is pointless in the above scenario. The RP is meh, and the game becomes bland with b-grade inRP encounters.
Oh they joy in death, those who undertake to remove the corpses of ship and sailor.
"With the skimpiest of RP, so skimpy in fact that if it was underwear, it would make a nudist blush..." Facts1Crew1
a top tip is to tell local law enforcement players the names of shithead pirates just looking for easy slays so we park multiple battlecruisers on top of them to remind them we're bigger shitheads when needed
Corporate traders don't inrp pay pirates out of their own personal bank account. They pay from the company's insurance fund, which any corporation would have for exactly this purpose. "I'm just an overworked employee making 100k a day" is a weak excuse.
(06-23-2023, 03:07 AM)Festus McBoyle Wrote: As a coni-sewer of pirating practice... not a practising pirate of course - no, never (cough), but a close observer I have insight of such matters.
A pirate relative... mate... some-one I once knew demanded 50 million from a certain trader in a barge who had a load of RA. Purchase price was 7.5 million SC. Cheaper to die than to pay. The certain trader related to the pirate that it seemed excessive and unfair. Said pirate shot him dead.
Moral of this story? Playing a pirated victim in RP is pointless in the above scenario. The RP is meh, and the game becomes bland with b-grade inRP encounters.
You can report people for this and they will be sanctioned.
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