@Nighthawk and Swift

[tansytansey]

Nighthawk, as much as you want to turn this into a flame thread, I'm not going to give you the satisfaction. The fact of the matter is your side of the arguement gives an unfair advantage to the pirates. If a trader runs, and a pirate shoots them with a CD, before any "RP" is had, it is just as much engaging before RP as a trader opening fire after you shut down the trade lane. But I digress. I won't bother writing for you another one of my long posts to prove my point, because you have yet to actually provide an arguement that disproves any of the points that I have made in my previous post. I'm sorry to have bothered you. Thank you for your time, and have a good evening.

How's this for a valid point:

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.

Traders are players like everyone else.

My posts are indeed favouring pirates, because sure, there are a lot of terrible pirates out there, but there are a LOT more worse traders out there, but no one gives a damn about them because people don't consider them anything other than cashcows, even though they are characters meant to be roleplayed like anything else. They are often 'swept under the rug' just like weapons dealers once were. Traders should not be exempt from rules under any circumstances, and roleplay is no excuse for breaking them.

And the difference between a CD and opening fire with 6-8 transport turrets is... I dunno... maybe 5000+ damage difference off the top of my head? Quite often a CD is required to start RP, because a lot of traders don't stop straight away. I'm usually fast enough to type out "stop right there" or "cut yer engines" before firing a CD. Don't put those two in the same boat, because your argument there is invalid. A CD is a form of beginning RP, and shooting is a form of ending it.

Your roleplay, to me, seems nothing more than an excuse to run away and shoot pirates without feeling guilty about being exactly the same as all the other power traders on this server. Even if it is not, that is the impression you are giving, and that is the category you are aligning yourself with.
It's almost as bad as the "I stole it" excuse. Anyone could say "My trader is ex-military and attacks pirates on sight without saying anything"

And don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to flame you or anyone else, I'm just trying to make you see things from our perspective, which you seem incapable to doing. It's not fun for pirates when a trader starts shooting at us the second they get in range. That means we have to kill them without any chance to roleplay. I usually offer them one last chance to surrender before we kill them (depending on how lenient I'm feeling), but they just reply by shooting some more.

---

http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv46/Ni...gcloudscopy.png
Image turned into a URL because it made your sig too tall. -Zuke
|Ashes and Draya's Epic Adventure|Ashes "Nighthawk" Yotaka|Nightfall|Eva Jones|
[5:50:49 PM] JakeSG (William Darkmoor) says: I like you, Ashes. You're more cynical than God.