What is the reward for blowing up trade ships?

[GlobusDiablo]

Spending my time in open play, trying to trade.

Interdictions by cmdrs in Pythons with all guns blazing are becoming more and more frequent.

As I haven't tried it myself, I was wondering if anyone could tell me, what the reward is for shooting down a trade ship that has no bounty or wanted status?

What does the player gain?

[Jockgit64]

A Bounty on your head....

[Corsaire31]

The pleasure of having ruined another player's day... one of the reasons why I don't play in open.

[Cmdr Kharma]

I really cannot get my head around why people do that......

Sheesh...... I even let NPCs in trading ships go if their bounty is below 10,000

[Flip]

It's called overcompensated inferiority complex.

[GlobusDiablo]

Thanks for all the replies guys. So there's nothing to gain but ruining others day. Hm. Might be pulling out of open play if it gets much worse.

Side note: What the hell Kharma?! That's the first level headed reply I've ever read from you. What the hell are you drinking?

[Walter]

I really cannot get my head around why people do that......

Here I go again, slightly off topic.
It's not new behaviour. This story is from Aesop and is more than 2000 years old. Other versions from other cultures are also available.

A stray Lamb stood drinking early one morning on the bank of a woodland stream. That very same morning a hungry Wolf came by farther up the stream, hunting for something to eat. He soon got his eyes on the Lamb. As a rule Mr. Wolf snapped up such delicious morsels without making any bones about it, but this Lamb looked so very helpless and innocent that the Wolf felt he ought to have some kind of an excuse for taking its life.
"How dare you paddle around in my stream and stir up all the mud!" he shouted fiercely. "You deserve to be punished severely for your rashness!"
"But, your highness," replied the trembling Lamb, "do not be angry! I cannot possibly muddy the water you are drinking up there. Remember, you are upstream and I am downstream."
"You do muddy it!" retorted the Wolf savagely. "And besides, I have heard that you told lies about me last year!"
"How could I have done so?" pleaded the Lamb. "I wasn't born until this year."
"If it wasn't you, it was your brother!"
"I have no brothers."
"Well, then," snarled the Wolf, "It was someone in your family anyway. But no matter who it was, I do not intend to be talked out of my breakfast."
And without more words the Wolf seized the poor Lamb and carried her off to the forest.
And the morals drawn from this are:
The tyrant can always find an excuse for his tyranny.
The unjust will not listen to the reasoning of the innocent.

Edit: Should have said the text was nicked from http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/milowinter/45.htm.
Not sure which ship Aesop flew.

[Cmdr Kharma]

Side note: What the hell Kharma?! That's the first level headed reply I've ever read from you. What the hell are you drinking?

I have my moments.......

*Hic*

[Cmdr Kharma]

I really cannot get my head around why people do that......

Here I go again, slightly off topic.
It's not new behaviour. This story is from Aesop and is more than 2000 years old. Other versions from other cultures are also available.

A stray Lamb stood drinking early one morning on the bank of a woodland stream. That very same morning a hungry Wolf came by farther up the stream, hunting for something to eat. He soon got his eyes on the Lamb. As a rule Mr. Wolf snapped up such delicious morsels without making any bones about it, but this Lamb looked so very helpless and innocent that the Wolf felt he ought to have some kind of an excuse for taking its life.
"How dare you paddle around in my stream and stir up all the mud!" he shouted fiercely. "You deserve to be punished severely for your rashness!"
"But, your highness," replied the trembling Lamb, "do not be angry! I cannot possibly muddy the water you are drinking up there. Remember, you are upstream and I am downstream."
"You do muddy it!" retorted the Wolf savagely. "And besides, I have heard that you told lies about me last year!"
"How could I have done so?" pleaded the Lamb. "I wasn't born until this year."
"If it wasn't you, it was your brother!"
"I have no brothers."
"Well, then," snarled the Wolf, "It was someone in your family anyway. But no matter who it was, I do not intend to be talked out of my breakfast."
And without more words the Wolf seized the poor Lamb and carried her off to the forest.
And the morals drawn from this are:
The tyrant can always find an excuse for his tyranny.
The unjust will not listen to the reasoning of the innocent.

Edit: Should have said the text was nicked from http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/milowinter/45.htm.
Not sure which ship Aesop flew.

Commonly known as......

No spoiler thingy......

So I'll just say starts with a "C".........

[Rhysling]

I'd sort of assumed (as much as I thought about it at all, which wasn't much) that when you trashed someone's ship, it dropped any cargo it was carrying. Is this not the case?