' Wrote:I think the rules on everything need to be looked at quite extensively so that there are no loopholes. Mark it in stone then let us move the stone to where we need it later.
I'm tired of all the rule lawyering both in and out of game. (This isn't against you Jinx, I think you have made some very good points and posts and...everything that yo upost about.)
We need to make it so that no-one who has read the rules can interpret them in any other way.
I would also suggest that we try to word it in a positive way rather that THOU SHALT NOT...
Edit:Actually I just read the rules again. They seem pretty well written. I dont understand why people arent following them.
We gotta take a look at the reason the rule was made to begin with. The gunboat limit for pirates was not created because of role play. That rule exists because anything bigger is overkill and smacks of PVP.
And I doubt anyone considered the possibility that traders would call on protection from battle cruisers while they are being pirated.
What I'd like to see is a similar limitation on those that hunt pirates. If a pirate cannot "pirate" in anything larger than a gunboat ... to be consistent in the rules ... there needs to be a limit on a bounty hunter "hunting" pirates. I do NOT advocate allowing pirates to "pirate" in anything larger than a gunboat ... I only want to put the bounty hunters on the same playing field as the pirate. Limit the bounty hunter to a destroyer or a cruiser (not battle cruiser ... but a cruiser) while he "hunts" pirates.
This has as much to do with enjoyment of the game as it does with role play. After all, rules are made to level the playing field for enjoyment by all. Rules are not intended to give one side an advantage over the other.
