Crime & Punishment

Hon.. Hono... is that even a proper word?

This thread is full of it.

The most honorable individuals in new Eden.

As someone in this thread (Tara) already pointed out, if you want to do ransom buissness you need to be accountable to your word.

Honor ransoms and do not promise what you are not willing to at least fight for.

If you are not interested in ransoms and just want booty (beware of the pun) then grab it and shoot...not neccessarily in this order.

It has to be said in all clearness: piracy is not pvp.

Piracy is killing ships that are easy but valuable targets.
Piracy is efficiency. It is not about how well you fight when you camp silk roads - its about what you can gain.
You want to earn more loot than you loose in ships.

I would not strictly outrule suicide gankers as pirates. They commit a decent amount of time in planing a gank and looting the field and it can be done in very profitable manner. I actually tip my head of highsec suicide ganking because there is usually a high amount of organisation behind such ops.
We ganked tens of thousands of ships and pods on gates or in belts during the last years, and trust me it never gets old.
We also let go of many for a decent ransom and always honored it.

And then there are people that do nothing of the above and just kill everything for fun, take ransoms without honoring (principle of the greater fool I guess), which in my eyes is not more than a scam - they might be considered pirates as well - just not very good ones. I would rather qualify them as ordinary criminals within new Eden (which is not meant as a vilification btw).

If you want to be a pirate or a criminal is totally on you.