Loophole for F1ing

[timmychen]

Hoodlum, it's because they don't complain. Nobody complaints when something good happens - even if it's they were having loads of fun RPing, people usually just wait until the DC'd person comes back online, or continue on ahead without them - they certainly don't go to these forums to report an F1 incident.

Likewise, for the most part, we only remember bad events, because that's when we're most liable for getting our characters wiped clean of credits/weapons/whatnot. If a pirated DC'ed while pirating a trader, the pirate isn't going to be thinking "Oh crap, I'm going to get reported now, even though we weren't in combat and I was the one pirating him." But if it were vice versa, and the trader DC'ed, then the trader would be more like "OH NOES IM GOING TO LOSE ALL MY STUFF CAUSE MY STUPID COMPUTER LOST ITS INTARWEBZ" and therefore cross their fingers and hope that the pirate didn't report him/her.