This can all stop if you give me Cr67,000 of cargo
- Thread starter Stealthie
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It's not a gimmick anymore. It actually works.
If you are mining, pirates often essentially demand the junk you'll have to vent anyway to make more room for Painite.
Eh, hang on?
Do you mean purchase price or selling price?
I mean, I could give you cargo which cost me Cr67,000 but you might not be able to sell it for that.
Alternatively, I could give you cargo which I could sell for Cr67,000 if I took it to Maia but if you try to sell it around here you're not going to get that for it.
So, let's see....
I've currently got 45t of Progenitor Cells aboard.
I believe they sell for around C5,700 per tonne.
So, that's 67,000 divided by 5,700.
Cancel out the common zeros, do some rounding up, carry the 1 and I think that 11 tonnes would satisfy you.
Now to pull up my cargo HUD, access my cargo controls and....
HEY! Why are you shooting at me???!!!
They continue to jibber on as I'm smashing them, I often wonder what the chat is like on the NPC forums.
How is it even possible to do within 10 seconds. You lose a few seconds to read his message, then you have to open the inventory UI and find the item he wants, and the right amount of it. That would take 20-30 seconds for most humans.
Just imagine this:
- Little pirate vulture or DBX attacks
- "This can all stop if you give me 10,000 credits worth of Cargo!"
- Cutter drops 200 tons of Biowaste [big grin]
Just pay in MC rounds as someone said above. They're usually satisfied with a lot less than 67k too.
"...so there I was, just demanding 67,000 Cr worth of, well, anything really, and do you know what they did? They melted me! I mean it's almost as though they don't care, like we're just content for them or something. Honestly, there are days when I just don't know why I bother..."
Salty!
How many seconds exactly does it take you to read that one line after you've already been alerted by the scan message? I bet not more than 2.
8 remaining seconds is plenty to find, add up and eject enough. And even if you take a little longer they will still accept it after opening fire.
The timing itself isn't always the same. And I personally never have that many different things with me for this to be a problem.
(in case of mining I know what junk to drop anyway)
Also they sometimes just demand straight up tons rather than average value.
Goddamn loch ness monster...
It's just way too much of a hassle with the convoluted inventory UI, it's far easier to just return fire and kill them instead. That's why I said it's probably just a gimmick message rather than something you're supposed to comply to.
There is still a button that most people deleted in keybindings. It's cursed name is "eject all cargo"
This is faster than most people ever wanted
Pirates don't do maths, it's just a tactic to keep you occupied while they work to windward. I know. I'm a real life pirate.... Well nearly, I live on a boat and wear an eye patch. I don't go in for the pillaging, and a-murdering stuff.
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