@Nighthawk and Swift

[DataPhreak]

First off, Elgato, this has been a long running conversation that was started by Nighthawk in a thread that had absolutely nothing to do with this. I posted a new thread because, as Athenian said, it was off topic. I think it is a perfectly acceptable resolution, because now we can continue the conversation without hijacking someone elses thread, and you can't have a converstation with multiple people in PM.

Continuing.

Noone ever said, at least to my knowledge, that your RP is inadequate. And noone said it's out of RP to go killing the pirate who tries to pirate you. Makes sense.

Nighthawk did.

to us you're nothing more than a power trader who would rather die than pay pirates because its' cheaper to rebuy your cargo.

What I do mind, however, is justifying everything with the fact that it makes RP sense. It makes RP sense to kill people without notice, yet we do not do it.
And if someone fires on a pirate without even dropping a line of RP, yeah, I *will* consider him not a very good role player. Because frankly, I don't see how it's good to kill people while they're trying to type.

By no means do I intend to kill someone while they are typing. If you're sitting there counting down, it's one thing, hell yeah i'll kill you. But I will attempt to cruise first, before I open fire, then I will go to thrusters if I can't cruise, while firing. There is no trade ship that puts out enough damage to down a bomber in the time it takes to cancel out of typing and take evasive action. That's rediculous.

And telling the pirate to use /setmsg is not very productive. I actually want to RP, and not use a preset line which I reproduce over and over again.

I don't care if you'll try to run before saying anything first. Be my guest.
But if someone kills a pirate who's trying to type out RP without even saying anything, is in my own opinion, with a very non-roleplaying attitude, and downright dirty.

Finally, my intentions are not to kill the pirate, they are to get away. I may, in the process of trying to escape, kill a pirate at some point, maybe. But I will never give away that first 30 seconds to the pirate to type in a message when i could potentially escape. My escape, or the lack there of, provides much more opportunity for roleplay, as I explained in the first post.

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