Shit man. Play in open just for the engagement. Random interdictions and negotiating with pirates is annoying when you’re new and broke. But it’s just part of doing business when you get a few ships and some coin under you. Breaks up the monotony of the trips. Most pirates are RPers. You give them like 10 units of beer or something and they’ll let you go.

But then there’s the straight up gankers. They just suck. Losing 2 hours of work because some scrub who can’t pvp can feel better about himself never gets easier. At least it didn’t for me. They did inspire me to build a revenge FDL and learn to use it tho.