Piracy 101

[msgerbs]

It'll be extremely difficult to prove. The reason it's wrong, is that another character is doing surveillance for the offline character in the system. Feeding your own offline char information on a traders progress, with the intention of teleporting into a trader's path - how do you possibly justify this as good rp? If you want to catch a trader - catch him! Don't hide on other characters to make traders think you have logged or left the system. No matter of RP initiated makes teleporting ok.

I'm not an admin, and maybe the admins don't consider it cheating - but they should. That's my opinion. I think it's a tragic shame you consider this a legitimate tactic.

That's 1 point I must disagree on. Checking the chat to see if there's a pirate in system is equally bad RP as trying to circumvent that. As a matter of fact, doing this is GOOD for RP, because they won't magically know you're there, and will blunder into you as any REAL trader would in real life.

Of course, catching them also leads to RPing. Them avoiding you because they somehow knew you were there... Doesn't.