INCIDENT RESOLVED! Previous report of pirates that didnt honour a ransom is now resolved.
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"Making piracy a prestige professional?"
Returning isk when accidentally podding someone?
WTF is this garbage? I never thought it could be possible, but it sounds like there's a group of do-gooders out there steadilly carebearifying piracy.
Miners are sheep. We are wolves. Wolves don't apologize or pay sheep back for accidentally killing them.
Remove this nonsense before you make real pirates gag.
Call it carbearify to be honourable pirates?
In this case they accepted a ransom and promised not to shoot, but one of the gangmembers still did.
If they didnt pay back it'd mean others ransoming would be affected in such a way ransoming would be impossible.
Loot and pillage all you want, but keep your promises.
It's obvious you're missing the big picture. Your myopic view of piracy extends to keeping ransoming and other forms of skullduggery as viable professions. That's all fine and well.
What you fail to realize is, by advocating artifices such as "honor" and "code", you're essentially being a carebear. You're no different from the masses of carebears. The main distinguishing characteristic of carebears (a term which even most of us pks/pirates/griefers can't agree on) is their adherence to some form of proprierty towards, respect for, desire to live equitably with other players in a game. They bring rules and ethics of coexistence into a gaming world and cry foul when others decide to break their moral.
A true pirate is one who does not bound himself by rules or honor, which are nonexistant in a game. A true pirate does indeed seek ISK, but that is not the end. What a true pirate seeks is power--power to determine and exercise their own fate as wel as of their victims. That is the greatest reward for piracy--the feeling you get when you murder a victim's pod after he begs and pleads with you to spare him--for no other reason than, YOU CAN.
Mark my respect for you, Ander. But I question whether you are truly a pirate at times, or just a carebear in wolves' clothings.
I respect the wish to destroy and wreck havoc. I've done that on many occasions aswell without offering ransoms.
Sure, it is still up to the ransomer to decide if he'll "honour" the ransom. However, he will also decide for himself if he wishes to mark himself as such a pirate who do not honour ransoms.
In this case the pirate wants to be able to ransom in the future, and for that he shall be respected. Just as if he'd wanted to use a one time opportunity to scam someone for a ransom and then blowing him up.
Call me carebear if you wish, Ill still honour my ransoms cause it is way more profitable for me to this day. If I do find someone who I can trick out of a ransom one day and still make enough isk to settle for life. Then I'll probably chose not to honour the ransom. But until the day it makes me more profits to honour ransoms I'll keep on doing so.