Nomads

[Ramke]

I'll shove my thoughts in here since I had a nomad uncloak and instakill me the second later while I was in the middle of lots of RP with KPT yesterday. Note, not even a transport.

I don't feel like I should be removed from the game because someone thought it'd be fun to instakill someone without any chance to do anything about it. This is the same as an admin going on a power trip and nullifying your ship because you disagreed with his opinion about some irrelevant thing/player/topic.

Is (not the RISK, but the CHANCE) to suddenly meet a game over screen at ANY POINT of doing ANYTHING going to contribute to the well-being of the community in this game? Shouldn't the player have some opportunity to resist without buying ridiculously expensive equipment practically nobody uses that gimps your combat performance and escape opportunities?

I don't think this is okay as it is. Silent engaging is okay, K'Hara should be dangerous and shouldn't roleplay with humans that are completely irrelevant. What's not okay, is the fact that we literally can -not- do anything about it unless we invest massive money and downgrade our normal ships in some manner, or we start avoiding any and all interactions.

Giving the players a chance to prevent absolutely random game over screens appearing should be a thing. It is not a thing.

What i could suggest is simply giving the player a decent time to react. Like it's written in the rules, for god's sake. A huge tentacle sliding up my ass out of cloak and incinerating me in a split second is NOT giving a decent time to react and just ruins my mood miserably.

And I don't really consider "fly off the lanes and avoid hotspots of player interaction" "use the player list to check if a K'Hara is there and run away as fast as possible regardless of your situation" "buy really expensive equipment and constantly be on the edge" as solutions to this problem. I'd be okay with silent engaging IF cloak buttstabs were not involved, because that would give you a bloody chance to actually do anything about it.