Rule change proposition

[Binski]

Uh yeah except with how strong transports are, how often they use RP to distract while trying to get away, its just a needless buffer. Sometimes you'll have no chance of actually getting a ship unless you try to do as much damage as you can when their drop out of cruise.

If the other ship has nothing to reply over, why the need to wait? Most ID's have to wait for a reply to a demand, only more serious ID's give you the ability to directly engage other ships. If you are playing one of those ID's, RP with your opponents is potentially limited anyways. Since its an rp server when convenient, and a pvp server when convenient, it does seem like a little extra protection. Oh the amount of times I've had people get away beecause of 'roleplaying'.

If you want to feel safe, stick to the tradelanes, get a cloak disruptor. If you take a risky route, you may wind up in trouble! Again with how close dock points are, nothing like knowing they got away because of the need to hesitate for no reason. The interaction goes as expected for such opposing ID's, rp is limited and not friendly. You can still get plenty of mutual RP in from other situations, and so can they. I didn't vote on the suggestion in OP, would prefer it say instead, 'Attacking without roleplay. Players must be given reasonable time for a reply to roleplay if there is a demand made upon them'. That means when you can engage a ship as a combat target, drop your two lines, and attack, afk traders will suffer.