EVE General Discussion

TL;DR: AFAIK there's no game rule, which forces him do give you back some of the money. You are fully dependend on his grace.

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Long version:

You are heavily out of luck.

As far as i understood EVE .. you can't trust anyone. Except (hopefully) your corp mates (but betrayal is also a valid part of this game).

The pirate may keep all the money, if he likes to do so.
It was your fault sending him too much. It's compareable to not carefully reading the fraud contracts in "jita local chat".
You even had no evidence, that the pirate will keep his promise.
He was about to harm you, why did you belived him?

If the the real live gamer behind the ingame pirate is somehow a "very very good guy" in contrast to his ingame character, he might give back some of the too-much-payed money just for grace. But do not expect that in this game. Have a look on all the other threads in this forum: Harsh words everywhere. Bite and get biten.

If he refuses to show some sympathy, then it seems like you have to accept the awfull situation , and hopefully learn from it.

I wish you good luck for the next time.

NEVER NEVER EVER EVER PAY A RANSOM!

Pirates usually behave in conversation like a business transaction. Yeah, politeness from a (insert racial slur here). I have paid a ransom once like yourself OP and was still raped.

Pirates don't hold their word, its never worth losing your money and your ship/clone.

ANYONE WHO SAYS PAY THE RANSOM, is the same person that would **** you and your family for kicks, and is LMFAO at people like us.

Anyone in game who pays ransoms are idiots. Sure plenty of pirates have honored it, and plenty have NOT. I dont roll the dice, and NEVER take anything out I can afford.

Be wishes to you OP, hope it works out!

Several. At least as equivalent to one as you can get. Back in my bear days my old corp would be contacted by other corps who would offer 'protection' if we pay them i.e. they don't wardec if we just pay ahead of time. We would just dock up or go across the system as many times these corps would only operate around the mission hubs. In only one instance did I have 2 players come looking for me and I was surprised that I was able to fend them off with a mission Raven.

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