Boosting Away From A Fight

[Kuraine]

I've had capital ships cruise after me when i've been fleeing in my freighter countless times or my GC bomber or even on those occasions when i've been in my LR fighter. I know damn well I was fleeing and it was perfectly fair for them to chase after me. I was doing the fleeing, after all. I have no issues with it and i'm not going to waste the admins or players' time with sanctioning for something so utterly petty.

I've engaged cruise on my ships multiple times to chase enemy targets who also sometimes did/didn't also go into cruise to try and escape me. All those times it was totally blatant the target was fleeing, whether it was me fleeing or whether it was my opponent fleeing. I've also seen it done countless times by others also, in pretty much any system or place anyone cares to name.

All in all, i've not got a problem with anyone using cruise to run down and kill their opponents when they try to flee. I for one would think it is rather out of character for my pirate characters to not finish off an already wounded enemy. This is an RP server and, roleplay wise, unless you're a blood dragon or some other character with a strict code of honour (which pirates don't tend to have, since they're pirates with all the moral fiber of a rock), you're not going to let an enemy escape to potentially kill you or any of your friends another time (specific RP events excluded). Sometimes they escape anyway, and you put it down to skill/luck. That's just life.

Oh and on another note, I still think you can afterburn away from a fight and it is still fleeing, whether "cruise" or not. Just because you're afterburning away doesn't mean you're not doing a runner, and it is usually quite clear when this is the case. I think that anyone who gets more than 5k from their target certainly isn't doing much to stay in the battle and probably should think about not flying back to the fight.

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Kuraine (Zoner tagged Trader)
Ravenholm (Zoner tagged Zoner Destroyer)
Bill Mason[Arms.Dealer] (Zoner tagged Arms Dealer)
LR-Drax (Liberty Rogue tagged Cruiser)
LR-Dravis (Liberty Rogue tagged VHF)
[RHA]Wilhelm.Wettin (Red Hessian tagged VHF)
[GC]-Ai.Takeda (Golden Chrysanthemum tagged VHF/Bomber)