It is sad to see people who distinguish that verbal RP (a.k.a RP) and combat RP (a.k.a PVP) is different coins rather than just two sides of one coin. It's one and the same, both infused with each other. You meet your enemy, you say few hostile words and ten seconds later you can proceed to shoot him. Or you meet your friend and you can have 30 minute long verbal dialogue about Sirius.
Freelancer is all about freedom in choosing what roles to play but that does not release you from following the same set of rules that makes this chaotic soup of different players and characters coexist in tasteful and harmonic setting.