OK.  The countdown timer goes down to 0.  There is an announcement that a pirate raid is imminent.  There is bribe money (50) on my head and not on anybody else.  I click on a button to put 250 on somebody else.  That money disappears but the money on my head remains (an announcement that there is no profit...).  I click on the button to put another 250 on the same enemy.  Again, that money disappears - same announcement - but the original 50 on my head is still there.  I end up wasting 1000, and it ends up that the pirates attack me because of that original 50 (the ony amount remaining when the raid commences).  If there is any logic in this, I don't see it.  Could someone explain to me what is going on?  I find it totally frustrating.