Decommissioned But Clever Anti-Phantom Rant

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He was a phantom. He wanted to 'play' with me and the 1600 people on board (They look like such excellent playmates, he said). He fired multiple supernovas into my shields, not only lowering them to less than fifty percent but removing them entirely and causing hull damage, which certainly constitutes an attack under the rules. You engaged me, and do you know what that tells me, when your ID explicitly forbids you from demanding credits or cargo? That you have no intention of further textual RP. You are going to blow me up whether I like it or not, and that is my cue to stop trying to provide you textual RP and run for my life, which is what any sane person is going to RP when they know they have no chance of survival. You're entirely correct - this IS a bitch post. I'm bitching because I got blown up and I wasn't given a way out, providing a fix for another player entirely at my expense. There was no pirate to pay, and there was no way to talk my way out of getting destroyed, and I think that's just dumb. I've tried to RP characters like that three times, and you know what? It doesn't work. They don't go anywhere. They get fixed in a rut. They go out and do the same thing, every time, and it doesn't give anybody anything but death. So, how do I deal? I try to express my issue in accepted academic terms and say why I think that it is freaking stupid that I got blown up, and how it pertains to gameplay as a whole.

EDIT:

Remember this: Spaceship game.

I know, right? Alas, this spaceship game is one I am heavily invested in, and I think it's being played wrong, which means that, since I care, I'm going to complain.

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Quick comment - we thought that Panzer was the Leader, Swift. -Agmen

Which Dreadnought was that?

One of your nine.