Lawful Pirating

[Jinx]

maybe - but on the same leaf you could say that a starflier with a civi ID lurking around at the badlands rogue base is a risk to the security of the base - still you must not attack and take him out.

while i agree that a warship should be allowed to take out a transport in specific circumstances - we cannot do it with the current ruleset. - the rules are clear, even if unfair from some points of view. - a trader can hang out in front of your battleships nose with 5000 of your buddies, telling you that he is currently having his crew torturing them - while he jettisons one by one and shoots them with his transport guns into space dust. - yet you must not do anything about it.

would the trader do it if he wasn t immune? - prolly not. - will you still get sanctioned when you attack him? - prolly yes. weigh your chances, - you may be in RP, but you ll still get a forced vacation from playing.

however, it must not be ooRP for a trader to haul pirates as hostages. some might even hold some of them for security matters - i have yet gotto see a pirate that spared a trader, cause the trader told the pirate that he d kill his buddies when he was fired upon. - the pirate allways ( in 100% of the cases i experienced ) told the trader that he either doesn t care much or he d pick them up from the wrecks ( mind, you often don t get all of them )

the traders violation is metagaming, which is not sanctionable , the pirates violation is breaking the rules. and both may be inRP.


if its such obvious metagaming - why not punish the trader with the best thing to do - which is ... ignore him. don t play "with" him. he ll get bored and leave you alone. - pretend he is not there and has none of your buddies in his hold. or - even better - call your fighter/bomber buddies that can cripple him down to like 10% hull with no turrets - he can decide - suicide and loose his cargo ( including the pilots ) or dock and repair - [ well, or trade the guys to a friend and then suicide ]

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