(10-28-2016, 10:21 AM)Croft Wrote: It was a discussion before your flatout ignorance has tried to steer it into an arguement.
I have provided anecdotal evidence of how PoB's effect piracy including a personal experience which directly contravines your stance that "PoBs next to stations have no effect on piracy" yet your only reply is to repeat your opinion, diminish my point without addressing it and perform a feat of mental gymnastics by saying the wording of a potential rule is inconsequencial.
Either way, I wash my hands of the matter.
Your evidence constitutes a reach at best. If a trader reaches an NPC station they will dock, game over for the pirate. The presence of a POB does not alter this fact, thus having a POB next to an NPC station does not provide any negative AoD effect for the pirate that did not exist already from the NPC station. If the trader was shooting back and both players were on 1% hull and dry on bots/bats then maybe, just maybe the weapon platforms would have an effect on the final moments of the encounter... as would the turrets from an NPC station in this scenario.
The objective of the trader is to dock, not wait for the pirate to die. This is because docking does not result in rule wise 'death' and the trader can undock and be on his way.
Also, this is not a potential rule, as I have made clear previously. This IS CURRENTLY A RULE, all the petition calls for is that POBs that have been allowed to break this rule no longer be able to do so.
As for the point on the wording, it doesn't matter. The intent of the petition is made very clear, when/if the admins decide to implement this change then the wording would indeed need to be slightly altered - if it weren't already a rule that is.
