How should I behave around non-RPers?

[Baltar]

In the last week I have seen some players:

- Fly right past me without stopping for a scan or even communicating at all.
- Dock at an Order base without permission just to get some equipment, as if The Order just run a shop open to everyone.
- Use Omicron-100 as a shortcut, not caring or knowing that it's highly restricted
- People just blasting everything for fun even though they have no RP reason to do so
- Players docking at Yaren base even though they should be enemies of Corsairs.
- "lolspeak"

Anyway, with these non-RPers, how do I interact with them?

1. Who says they have to say "Hi" when they pass by you? If they engage you ... then yes they need to say something. If you see them fly by ... just say "Hello" yourself. What's stopping you from initiating the conversation?

2. Yes if there's an Order character there it is a courtesy to ask permission to dock. On the same note ... do people expect to ask permission from a Liberty vessel before docking at Manhattan? How about a Junker base?

3. Smugglers will try to get their stuff to and from their destinations as quickly as they can. Yes they will go through Omicron 100. Nothing OORP about that. Just because many Order characters do not like this does not make it OORP. Solution for this is to tell them to go back and engage them the way Liberty engages those in violation of Zone 21. But do not call them non-role players simply because they use Omicron 100. They are role playing a smuggler ... you should role play enforcing the borders of your turf.

4. There are way too many that like to blast everything in sight. If they are in a less capable vessel than your own ... you might be able to ignore them ... possibly send in a violation report. If they're in a more capable ship you're likely to experience a severe headache since they're gonna destroy your vessel and laugh about it. Then they'll argue that you. You can't ignore these guys ... just gotta take your lump and file the violation report.

5. Yup ... too many docking OORP ... lots of sanctions for that. We've got a lot of bounty hunters out there that think they can kill pirates, Junker ID'd characters and other friends of Junkers and still be able to dock on Yanagi and other Junker bases.

6. Can't do anything about "lolspeak" than ignore them and report them. Check the sanction reports ... some of us in .:j:. experienced some time in Bastile for OOC chatter in system. I do hope to see more of this since there are quite a few that have been told numerous times to take their // to private channels.

Should I attack them or scare them off? Because if so, I'll have to be attacking about 20 players a week and that seems a little bloodthirsty. It's not that they break rules like docking without permission, it's just that even when I tell them, they clearly don't really care.

Keep in mind ... if you attack them ... gotta have a role play reason for it. "lolspeak" is not a good role play reason ... nor is the fact that they fly past you without saying anything. They OORP dock ... well ... if they're supposed to be hostile and dock on your planet ... might be able to role play they were terrorists attempting to deliver some terrorist device. Best bet though is if you see OORP docking is to try to role play them away (without attacking them) and file your report.