Today marked the offical point where I had more sanction threats than hits on my character biography. Thats all I can stand from the rules lawyers, they will take the enjoyment from this game from me no longer. I have deleted all of my rp posts and deleted my character names. I will rename each character as I see fit and play them 100% rp in game only. There is no use in posting it in the forums as it has no effect in game whatsoever.
I will only give one example and name no names. I was piloting my Unioners cruiser in front of new berlin fighting RP, RM, and all traders. Every single ship was red to me. an outcast in a dragon gunboat (oorp from hell) had just killed the single RM logged on and so I had four hours to do what my faction does unhindered. Along comes a player out of the tradelane with a BH IFF tag. Completely red ship in a sea of red. BH IFF in the middle of a firefight. I did what my character would have done. I openfired and he ran. He had the heuvos to tell me I was oorp in public chat and then pm me. Then he told me i was oorp for being friendly to RM (which is 100% false) and I needed to fix it or he would turn me in for sanctions. When I shoot at someone 'id before iff' but when I get shot at 'your iff is hostile'.
I have broken the rules once that I know of. It was a dogfight where we both used our cruise engines. I realize now I should have just let him go. Of course I was threatened with a sanction for that. But every single time I log on I am threatened with a sanction for some reason or another. I would say every time I get a pvp kill I get the same, but today someone lost and walked away with no hard feelings. Kudos. Other than that, everything I do someone objects to and claims I need to read the rules.
I would say that I get about a 5:1 OOC:RP ratio on average. There is no need for this. I will simply ignore anyone that speaks to me ooc from now on. period.
I sincerely apologize to anyone I may have broken a rule on inadvertantly when I first started. Let me remind everyone that plays here that you MUST try to rectify any situation before filiing sanctions. I will never submit one.
I have come to the conclusion that I am going to be threatened by players no matter what I do, and therefore I should follow the path that allows for the most fun. From what I have seen I have nothing to worry about as I don't cheat, I'm not ignorant to people, and I dont break the faction rules. However there are far too few roleplayers proportionally to rules lawyers and cap ship whores. Untill that changes (probably wont) I would rather spend my time flying than posting.
