Cruise to catch up.....Allowed?

[Serval]

Someone mentioned that while chasing after a target that is cruising that the pursuer is not allowed to engine kill and launch a disrupter. The reason stated that it was cruise torping. Wrong, Cruise torping is using cruise speed to decrease the amount of time the target has to react to the incoming munition. If both targets are at cruise then by definition it is not cruise torping and the pursuer accepts the fact that if he misses that the target will gain another 3k in distance while his engines charge up again.

Keep in mind if firing a disrupter in this manner is forbidden then you have made bounty hunters completely pointless unless the target is willing to fight as a hunter only gets paid if the target is killed.

So what about the opposite?

The other day I was fleeing from a pursuing gunboat, both of us at cruise speed, he was around 2k away from me. I engine killed, spun around (while maintaining cruise speed due to the ill), and launched a few disruptors at him to kill his cruise so I could get away.

To me that seems like a tactic and good use of ship capabilities. He could have fired a CD at me (if i was in range, so was he) to stop my drifting, but by the time my disruptor hit he wasnt able to get back in range.

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