New York PVP?

[Reise]

Well it's been a while since I've played Discovery but I thought I knew the rules pretty well. Came back a couple days ago, rolled some new characters, etc etc. Something I want to share:

Things were going nicely until a little while ago when I was attacked randomly while preparing to dock back onto Manhattan to drop of my cargo of silver. I circled around a bit to evade to see if it was someone firing by mistake, but once my shields were out and my hull was taking damage, I docked. I asked in system chat if there was a reason I was being attacked, since I didn't really catch who it was doing the attacking at that point. The guy replied back saying he wanted my toes or something, so I shrugged and restocked on bots/bats and headed back out. So on my way to the trade lane with cruise engines going, I see the same guy heading back toward my destination, and he immediately disabled the trade lane and fired a CD (No countermeasures at this point, I'd only been mining silver lol) and he quickly destroyed my CSV.

Now I'm irritated, he just cost me 20k in bots/bats and to top it off I'm certain he's breaking rules. But after I tell him that I'm going to report, someone else PM's me saying he isn't in violation because he's level 29 and has a Xenos tag, and at some point PVP was enabled in NY. So I search the rules posted on the forums to double check (they still say it's not allowed) and the guy then tells me it hasn't been changed yet. While I talk with the other guy about the rules someone luckily came along and killed the Xenos player. After that he left the server right away. We talk for a bit about this, and that the Xenos player abusing an apparent loophole, and I decided to take it here.

So unfortunately the way I understand it, players can attack other players in NY as long as the usual things apply (level, tag, etc)? Since the one who attacked me had a Xenos tag, he basically has clearance to attack anybody he wants in NY space. IMO this kind of thing needs to be looked at. I understand there's some RP reasons PVP is allowed in NY now, but for players under 30 it can just turn into a grief-fest if the player's level 29 and camps Manhattan. Worse yet, under the current rules, higher level players can't attack him because he's 29. IMO if someone engages in PVP anywhere, they should be fair game to anyone, but this isn't my server.

So, thoughts?

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Reise[Merc] (Mercenary, Orca) -- Raserei (Ageira Tech., GMG Miner)