My first time being pirated.

CMDR Hagglebeard

CMDR Hagglebeard
Hmmph. It was very different than I expected.

I was in 34 Pegasi, and I had evaded about 4 interdictions before finally being stopped. They asked for 100t of my Imperial slaves, which I was fully prepared to give, but they asked for abandoned, and only gave me 5 seconds. I dropped my shields to show compliance, and began to chat with them to tell them about how abandoned cargo is "gaming-the-game". I got five words in and died.

Thankfully, CMDR S7's got my back and attacked them. :)

It's pirates like this that ruin it for all. They chase traders to solo. They handle the game like a business, with no respect for their fellow player. I was prepared to die going in, but that was atrocious, and I'm itching to put the killer's name on here. Don't kill the traders, you lose business that way.
 

ToniB

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CMDR Hagglebeard said:
Hmmph. It was very different than I expected.

I was in 34 Pegasi, and I had evaded about 4 interdictions before finally being stopped. They asked for 100t of my Imperial slaves, which I was fully prepared to give, but they asked for abandoned, and only gave me 5 seconds. I dropped my shields to show compliance, and began to chat with them to tell them about how abandoned cargo is "gaming-the-game". I got five words in and died.

Thankfully, CMDR S7's got my back and attacked them. :)

It's pirates like this that ruin it for all. They chase traders to solo. They handle the game like a business, with no respect for their fellow player. I was prepared to die going in, but that was atrocious, and I'm itching to put the killer's name on here. Don't kill the traders, you lose business that way.
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so pirates acted like ehm... pirates?
 

Darkphoenix

Darkphoenix
CMDR Hagglebeard said:
Hmmph. It was very different than I expected.

I was in 34 Pegasi, and I had evaded about 4 interdictions before finally being stopped. They asked for 100t of my Imperial slaves, which I was fully prepared to give, but they asked for abandoned, and only gave me 5 seconds. I dropped my shields to show compliance, and began to chat with them to tell them about how abandoned cargo is "gaming-the-game". I got five words in and died.

Thankfully, CMDR S7's got my back and attacked them. :)

It's pirates like this that ruin it for all. They chase traders to solo. They handle the game like a business, with no respect for their fellow player. I was prepared to die going in, but that was atrocious, and I'm itching to put the killer's name on here. Don't kill the traders, you lose business that way.
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Yep, no disagreement here.....you are one of the pirates that I believe having read a lot of your posts on here that is honorable and those like you described are indeed causing open play to die a death of 1000 paper cuts. On the bright side at least you have the satisfaction of knowing someone had your back....most lone wolf traders have no such luxury and it makes the abandonment of open play all the more logical unfortunately.
 

Distance

Distance
A pirate should always be open to haggling. Must be a first timer pirate or someone just looking for an excuse to kill people.
 

X-Terminator

Banned
X-Terminator
He's not a Pirate but a Very Naughty Boy and he only makes his Bounty on him much higher for us to collect once he is killed. What goes around goes around ;)
 
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tiger61378

tiger61378
There's honorable pirates, and there's scum pirates. Sounds like you ran into the pk scum type...which all honorable pirates should be killing on sight. Pirating IS a business...it makes life miserable for traders, but hey, its Elite DANGEROUS, right? Just hand that guy's name to CODE, and let them deal with him...he'll wish he'd never set foot on his first sidewinder LOL
 

CMDR Hagglebeard

CMDR Hagglebeard
nosscar said:
Is it just me, but the OP's avatar looks like a Pirate.
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Yep, it came up when I searched pirate, or was it blackbeard? I don't remember. :)

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ToniB said:
so pirates acted like ehm... pirates?
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Well, if you read below, you'll see that there are 2 types of pirates, and one of them should be KoS by all factions, players, powers, the Thargoids, and Peter Jameson. :p
 
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Spanksh

Spanksh
The people who keep saying "pirates aren't supposed to be nice. That's just what pirates do. bla bla bla" tend to forget that this is not real life and traders do not have no other choice but be targets for piracy.

Pirates and traders have a relationship that only works with mutual respect for each others profession. Traders respect pirates by playing in open and therefor providing themselves as targets while pirates need to respect traders by treating them fairly (not destroying them, when they cooperate) and giving them the thrill of possible danger during a usually boring activity.
The important part here is that pirates are depending on this relationship for their profession to work while traders are not. They can simply switch to private or solo and be done with it.
This is players you are dealing with here, who try to have a good time, just like you. This isn't the sea around the year 1700 where people tried to make a living.
 
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Aussiedroid

Aussiedroid
I wonder why they didn't just target your cargo hatch and get something from the exchange?

Sounding more like a merc than a pirate :)
 

Roqinn

Roqinn
I had my first official pirating happen 2 nights ago. A player interdicts me and tells me not to run. I try to get away of course! He then shoots outs my shields and engines and demands 40 of the palladium I was hauling and that I had 5 seconds to do it. Sorry to say, but I only know how to dump ALL my cargo, which I wasn't about to do and started to ask how to do it when he blows me up. It cost me 5 times what my ship cost to replace the palladium. *sigh* That's when I decided it was time to take a break from hauling goods and start to explore! =D
 

Quineloe

Quineloe
ToniB said:
so pirates acted like ehm... pirates?
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It's amazing how people will discuss how fair the game is or how "abandoning is gaming the system" when they're held at gunpoint and might just lose everything.

Of course piracy is a business, and pirates who do this full time need as much money out of every target as they can get. I prefer those greatly over the type of hobby pirate with a trade ranking of Tycoon who funded his pirate ship through selling Palladium and Res Seps.

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Aussiedroid said:
I wonder why they didn't just target your cargo hatch and get something from the exchange?

Sounding more like a merc than a pirate :)
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Shooting out the cargo hatch will give you ~8 tons of stolen cargo, which is just 6% the value of what they demanded.
 

CMDR Hagglebeard

CMDR Hagglebeard
Quineloe said:
It's amazing how people will discuss how fair the game is or how "abandoning is gaming the system" when they're held at gunpoint and might just lose everything.

Of course piracy is a business, and pirates who do this full time need as much money out of every target as they can get. I prefer those greatly over the type of hobby pirate with a trade ranking of Tycoon who funded his pirate ship through selling Palladium and Res Seps.

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Shooting out the cargo hatch will give you ~8 tons of stolen cargo, which is just 6% the value of what they demanded.
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I've always believed that abandoning is gaming the system. I'm usually a full time pirate (hey Quineloe it's Pzkp the bagpipes guy :D), and I recognize that pirates need money whenever they can get it. Problem is, I was fully prepared to give it and they decided to blow me up, just for taking my shields down, not even moving! If they shot because they thought I was using Silent Running, they're morons.

To specify, it was an FdL and his friend in... a Python? Never saw his buddy.
 
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