The Conditions that have to be that the encounter is a fight.

[Antonio]

If: a) The player opens fire on you with his guns with the intention of killing you. The only exception I can see where a player shoots but doesn't have the intent to kill you is piracy. The pirate can sometimes fire a warning shot for intimidation, without the intent of killing you.

b) The player keeps cruise disrupting or ramming you after you told him to stop, in which case any further disruptions/rams are considered an attack. This excludes the first few disrupts to prevent you from considering it as an attack before the other guy even shot his first CD.

Giving an engagement notice is not a start of the fight per rules, but it notifies the player that a fight will most likely begin. Also, I'm not sure if the 50% shields rule is active anymore.

The engagement, the RP/PvP fight starts when

... the enemy drops his engagement notice

This is incorrect, and the easiest way to explain it is when one ID is outside of its ZoI, while the other isn't and can engage the first one. Example video:



Hessians in Alaska, outside of their ZoI. They can only shoot in self defense, however I drop the engagement notice minutes before actually opening fire because I technically haven't "attacked" them yet and they're not allowed to shoot me without taking any damage. Only when I open fire with my guns are they allowed to start shooting back. If it was the other way around it'd be much easier to engage people outside of ZoI.

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