Gray area, need clarification

[sovereign]

That's a bit different thing. Cap ship shouldn't be able to chase fighter at all.
That's why you shouldn't cruise to catch up. There are different opinions on that subject though.
But mine needs to be considered first! Aye!

I see no problems with what you did. By entering TL toward you, they came within sensor range again and, as long as they actually fought you, it should be fine.

I had my first experience with bat farming today when I was beating up a Rheinland Military bomber- it sucks. Then again, it was HIM doing it to all of MY NPCs that were swarming him, so I don't consider it bad form. However, I wish he had disengaged the NPCs earlier, because after he did we had a much better fight. Which I won, :yahoo:hooray for Odin armed with vanilla equipment!

Anyway, in my opinion, there's nothing wrong with farming NPCs that are actually hostile to you and attacking you, just try to move fight out of their patrol groups... however, if the BHG BC was engaging Daumann and the RM were just peachy with it? Pah, that screams OORP. RM should have told BHG to leave on pain of death, and possibly given him a little 'nudge' in the right direction (here, nudge = torp).

You did nothing worse than what they did.

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