Ship Suicides

[McNeo]

The first one is where you got ganked and ran into the sun.
The second one is where someone else got outclassed and ran into a neutron star.

Apart from the difference in systems, there isn't much that is different about your examples. Yet the first is okay and the second isn't?

From what I see, the assumptions you've made are based upon your own thoughts during the seperate incidents. Fair enough then, since we all do that. But you haven't considered what the other guy might be thinking. For example, you thought that the situation you were in was unfair and hence you weren't going to give them the kill message. Fair enough. But then you expect another to die to your hand when he is (ill assume here) completely outclassed? The second situation just sounds like the same as the first, except in reverse.

The way you describe it makes your arguement make perfect sense, but I (and I hope other people) am not inclined to make a judgement without both sides' thoughts on each of your encounters.

My opinion on this is that people should be able to suicide to get their guns back, and have to pay 5% of the cost of the equipment on there. The reason for this is because 5% of an inferno/MR/SN is a good few 100k's of credits, while it might be about a million or more depending on a battleship which does it. It'll be more of an annoyance cost than anything else, unless CODENAME prices are increased (selling prices) so that repairs for each code cost the same amount as repairs for a SN or something similar. Then it will become painful to fighter jocks who like to suicide.