Hitting cruise to catch up an afterburnering pilot

[Akumabito]

So what you're trying to do here is to use the letter of the law to get in the way of the spirit.

Not at all, I am more than happy to abide by the law, spirit or letter, as long as it is applied equally to all rather than being a popularity contest.

You have stated in this thread that you were disengaging from the fight. That makes you fleeing, whether or not you engaged cruise.

Not true, I was fleeing in intent because I had a chance to afterburner some distance away from three to one odds, because the two KNF chased someone else away from the fight, all within the rules.

I'm making an effort to play within a ruleset, but it seems some thinks the rules only have meaning when they want them to.

By your own admission this was your intent. You may have never been more than 2k from the AFA but you were more than 2k away from the person you accuse of re-engaging. His intent was to finish off stragglers, your intent was to flee. Where is the issue? If you admit you were fleeing, even if you were not doing so by the letter of the law, what is the problem?

The problem is I could have gone to cruise but didn't, because I was trying to stay within a set of rules and I expected the same from everyone. I expect too much from others I guess.

Or is it just bitterness at the thought of losing a fight?

Or did the KNF and AFA break the rules out of bitterness over not winning?

Are you mature enough not to resort to cheap shots like that?

If I had wanted to flee by the rules for fleeing, I would have, once the KNF showed up, cruising back in from several k away, I did go to cruise and they never caught me.

I sun dove with them well out of weaps range, but I could have just as easily evaded them, I just didn't want to waste the time when I needed to suicide anyway to restore lost equipment.

The fact of the matter is that nothing I did was even questionable, rules wise, and no matter how the rules are interpreted or how good a mind reader the KNF are to read intent before they cruise to catch up in a fight, there were only two questionable acts here, the AFA z keying while in cruise to shoot my ship who was in afterburner, and the KNF going into cruise to catch up with me after they left the fight to catch the CG.