Question about rules!

[Akumabito]

That's what Akumabito was trying to convey. These unsaid rules are fine when all concerned parties are
with the same viewpoint, but that's almost never the case.

Exactly, the trader pirate rules aren't in the rules, when I first started I was very confused. I asked Fellow Hood for clarification in in game chat and was accused of "looking for loopholes" when all I wanted to know was what was the proper way to act within the rules.

Wouldn't it be nice to have the trader/smuggler/pirate rules clearlly defined? Why aren't they?

And the rules lawyering, for instance I was told ping ponging in a JH was sanctionable by a pirate, who was asking fo a couple mill at the same time he told me he could report me and have me sanctioned. So I looked, I searched, I can find no reference to ping ponging a JH in a trader to evade a pirate, or any sanction thread where someone was sanctioned for it. That's just one example of where someone not an admin has told me rules that might or might not be valid. It's confusing.

To say this lack of clear rules helps players is simply incorrect. It creates uncertainty, stress, rules lawyers and confusion.