Dumb stuff harms the game

[Lemon]

It does seem like a grey though. Removing base defenders, even though you aren't explicitly sieging the base, is still technically attacking the base in some capacity. At the least, it's undermining its defences, which are meant to be warding off the siegers.

No it is not. There is no rule outlining this because there is not and cannot be any rule entailing who the defenders are. You don’t register factions to “defend” a base, you just show up and shoot the factions attacking the base.


During the 300 spartan defense of falster station in omega-3 aland drama - core (who was no on the siege list) showed up to shoot RHA and IMG (self proclaimed defenders) alongside BAF (attackers). Even a certain AI player came to its defense.

I'm not saying there should be or needs to be a rule on who is defending. Rather, it's a grey area because if you're attacking the people trying to defend the POB you are potentially inadvertently contributing to the siege. If you are only shooting the defenders and not all parties present, then it seems like in one form or another you are partaking in the overall siege, rather than just looking for PvP. The Aland case now that it's brought to mind also seems like a grey area as well.

I do think there might have been a few occasions where Order shot at gammu alone and allied with corsairs - that I would call dubious. I have no evidence of that though, when we were defending with A.I. in the fights we won we had Auxesia with us - and well if we group with them Order is free to engage let's face it.

At least in 100% fights that A.I. won there were nomads or Auxesia either grouped with them, or ignoring each other and shooting sairs+order primarily
(with nomad fleets because we had to - just gotta shoot caps first in fights... and when we wanted to turn on AUX...they either left or were dead in the fleet fights we were in. I was shooting at them in Nomad ships at least )