Decommissioned But Clever Anti-Phantom Rant

[Derkylos]

Remember this: Spaceship game.

Which is exactly why any action taken by any player on the server should be intended to improve the gaming experience of not only themselves, but as many other players as possible. Taking actions that make other players feel bad "because my character is a nasty guy" does not cut it. In RP, my character does not care for the feelings of his/her enemies, they are irrelevant. However, I, as a player, care for the enjoyment of my opponents as much as for my own.

Sure, we all like to win, we all like seeing that battleship blow up...but what about the guy flying the battleship? Wouldn't he like to see those bombers blow up, once in a while? No, I'm not saying fly like an incompetent, just bear in mind that, behind that ship on the other end of your guns is another player, who has logged into this virtual world to enjoy themselves by doing something they cannot do in real life.

Whilst we still have tradeships which cannot effectively defend themselves from pirates and pirates whose sole purpose appears to be the destruction of traders, we will see threads like this, be they presented from a "morals" point of view, or a simple "pirate killed me, pirates suck" point of view, and I will render them my full support.

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