PvP = RP - I was ganked

[Lythrilux]

"Expect to be shot with overwhelming force when approaching your enemy homeweorld" isn't a negative attitude.

It's being realistic. It's also being tolerant towards other people's behavior, which is a good attitude.

Flying up to your enemy expecting not to get shot is unrealistic. Yelling at your enemy because he shot you when oyu approached his home world is a negative attitude. It's dumber than yelling at people for pirating you. Much, much dumber.

Tolerance is good, but it works both ways.

For example, if a group of players visit you for a raid and they're going out of their way to create an encounter (and activity), in response you shouldn't go out of your way to make sure their efforts are meaningless. I.e ganking them with overwhelming forces/classes and then justify it as "it's the option that makes inrp sense". The correct response is one that cultivates and nurtures that activity: you bring a roughly equally sized/balanced response force, people shoot, and at the end of the day everyone leaves the raid having had fun.

I don't think there's any issue with being shot by a hostile ship. My point is that efforts should be made so that the fun from such an encounter wouldn't be one-sided.

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