A question

[Jinx]

well, yes - one can cover up a silly thing in PR. - but really, while its not sanctionable as a direct action, other than a slight ooRPness.

how does it come to such a situation anyway. - in that case, the trader took a route that he should not have taken - and instead of taking the roleplay consequences for being caught and confronted by those that he knew would guard this system he chose to jump back and forth. - unfortunately he found someone that played "his" game all along for a hour.

so for that matter - both pilots were acting a way they would not act if it was in- character. ( but the trader initiated it )

players sometimes estrange themselves from the roles they are supposed to play. - that starts with a trader saying "i would rather die than pay you the money" ( and then he dies ) to pirates that say "10million or you bite the dust" ( cause i know you make more in your powertraders life ). both are not acting their characters.

here we have a trader that made a bad decission of taking a shortcut he shouldn t know about. then he decided to use the game mechanics to get around the consequences. - of course he can say he is stuck in a jumphole ( and really, its the best thing to do in such a situation ) - but in the first place he should not have gotten into the situation at all.

the act of jumping back and forth - no problem. - if the pirate is not hunting in a team its him to blame not the trader though. - when i hunt alone, i have to live with certain disadvantages. and i sometimes have to let targets slip away. - sometimes its just about making a point. - if the a trader started to mock me when he got away, i d place a nice unlawful bounty on him ( oh, sometimes placing 1000 credits is enough - its a legal reason for a merc to blow up a trader )

i think the situation escalated on both sides - and it shouldn t get that far ever.

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