That's it, everybody's 'Engaging'

[Fletcher]

This is a rant, deal with it. I bring some logic into play however.

Tell me folks, what do you say when you go to fight, PvP, or just plain shoot at someone within the rules? Here is the rule in question:

6.21 Attacking without an engagement notice is not allowed. All attacks must be preceded with some form of RP, regardless of NPC faction diplomacy.

Now, we are players, people, Freelancer roleplayers. We log on to roleplay, have a chat, trade and yes, combat each other in mouse and weapon group attack with whatever you have.

This is the center of the rant. The so called 'Engagement Notice'.

Tell me folks, what is your engagement notice? Hmm? Is it "Engaging?" "Attacking target?". If it is, I am annoyed with you. Your not a NPC, your not a silly AI responding to programming. Your a person (presumably). They think, and thinking generally invovles lines longer than 1-3 words.

Some people take effort in roleplaying prior to an attack, yes, I like that. But there is always some guy who takes this gap in keyboard response to attack someone while they type. This is VERY unsporting, disgraceful and shameful and if a Faction player does this, I ask for inquiries and lessons to the said person. This is not a PvP server, its RP. We want to exercise out creativity, not our 'l33t' combat prowess. Accomplishing both, will earn you respect here in my books. I hear Copperhead is a good 'un.

Now, personally before I engage I type more than one word although admittedly, I've had to do so because I knew I was going to be attacked with no RP justification and outclassed.
Examples
"Outcast unit, you are in restricted space, you will go back to your base now, or you will be forcibly removed from the area" - Sentinel.101
"Ahahaha! A Corsair!! Time for some limb ripping to feed him with! They're cannibals after all right? They need some food!" - APM-Scorpio
"Xeno unit, fall back to the base you popped out from, sensors detect the duct tape falling off, leave before it take it off" - Sentinel.201.A

To me those are decent, but long and drawn out examples of an 'engagement' notice.

Look to expand the RP, or even get into a RP banter or chat with the enemy! I've done it at times, and its great fun, and all sorts of things happen, but usually endfs with one leaving in either flames or own power.


To summarize, expand those Engagement Notices to help along the RP of the server, everyone wants to RP, its why we are here. If your here to PvP, camp Connecticut.

I had to say it folks, I know there will be counter-arguments. Bring em.

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