well.... i think i d have to smirk when a BHG in a puny battleship was sticking in some planets orbit and said "commencing bombardement". - i know the scale of everything is messed up .... but for real. how long does he want to bombard the place? - 1 year? 100 years? - a single battleship won t cause much damage, i think - and its not like crete isn t used to "stuff falling out of the sky" - when i land on crete, it seems that its "raining asteroids" like all the time anyway.
i think - dropping bombs / destroying stations / blockading commodities can only really happen in an event based and discussed by all the people involved.
of course, i do understand your reasons for engaging alone. - but the alternative could have been to taunt this little ship and tell him that :
a) he is not a local and hardly knows where to drom his bombs
b) tell him that, - even if he knew where to drom the bombs, crete is sheltered due to the permanent asteroid rains - and that it will take weeks, if not longe to cause any noticable damage from an orbital bombardement ( so let him roleplay bringing a transport with military vehicles.... so its not just some poor excuse, but actually real RP [ harvesters did that when they wanted to take gran canaria] )
c ) tell him that reinforcements are on their way and will probably arrive soon, and you d be off to join them and be back in 4 hours ( cause whats 4 hours. a battleships cannot start dropping bombs on a planet from one second to another )
many ways to steer around making a suicide run .... which... of course, requires a "partner" on the other side that takes the RP thread and plays WITH you. - pointless if the battleship captain only wants to pvp of course.
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