Fleeing

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I dont know if this is the right place to post, but i'm unsure of where else i could post it...

THe rules on PVP are very specific, however, i found some players in the game saying different...

Just a while ago, i found my self experiencing my first and second human pirating. The names of the pirates shall remain unknown, for arguments sake, lets call them "one" and "two"....

The first time, i was heading out f manhatten in my train with a cargo hold ful with 3000 passengers. On my way out, i was greeted by one with the request "halt kay" (the character i was using). So, since he had disrupted the trade lane, i halted. He requested me to drop my cargo, which i thought was fair enough, hes a pirate and im a freelance trader. However, from the game point of view, i would lose 2 million credits, and from an RP point of view, i would be killing over 3000 people...

Naturally, i thought this to be a lose-lose situation. So, i hit the cruise engiens and tried to flee. One followed me after realising that his cruise disrupter wasnt working on me. During the chase, he said "Stop cheating and halt Kay". Hang on a second, since when was running counted as cheating. So i voiced my thoughts of corse. To which he replied "HALT". He followed me al the way to Nofolk ship yard, while repeating his command for me to halt. Eventually, he gave up on me as he was confrunted by a player controlled navy gunboat.

This got me thinking about the rules... Had i done something wrong? I decided to check the rules the next time i docked, and sure enough, there was nothing wrong with refusing a pirates demand and fleeing.

Shortly after this, on my second run out of Manhattan, i was confrunted by pirate number two at westpoint. Surely nough, i revieved a completely oridgional command to "Halt Kay". Wise from my first experience, i didnt sit around to chat, i just hit the cruise. He, naturally followed me, firing disrupters and all sorts of other armamaments as i fled. He demanded 1 million credits for my passage. Some what unfair in my opinion, its not like he owns the trade lanes or anything... anyway, its al in role play so i guess it makes sense =P. However, during the 3 system chase, i yet again, recieved messages about cheating. "Stop cheating Kay, just Halt". "If you dont halt now Kay, the next time you will be banned". If i was confrunted by a mugger who couldnt stop me while i ran away from him, i dont think that i'd need to stop when he demanded me to halt. I finally reached freeport 2 after a long chase and docked. I sold off my passangers and was about to leave with my hfule when i thought, what if hes still out there??

So, i decided to just leave the game. I needed to grab somthing to eat anyway.

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Now, to the real questions...

Did i actualy do anything wrong?

Why were those players saying that i was cheating and that i could get banned?

Is this all normal and im just being a bit of a noob?

Im quite worried, a 30 day ban or a 50 mil fine would set me back ALOT. Ive only been playing the game for 3 weeks, i made sure that i knew alll of the rules and how to handel certain situations, but here, i have two pirates claiming that IVE done something wrong...

Please, if some one can clarify this, i'd sleep alot easier tonight...

Thanks Guys....