The way you are

[Blodo]

Meh. A Nomad who has allowed himself to be found in Sirius, and isn't packing enough heat to massacre everybody should expect to be jumped by superior forces. It's part of the RP, what do you think that people would in RP just ignore the greatest threat humanity ever seen because "ahh hell, it would be unfair to the poor squidgy"? It would be OORP *not* to engage, unless with a clear reason like... "he's already outnumbered 6 to 1, so they can handle it" or something.

Then there are the arguments Adrian mentioned. Freelancer as we have it here isn't about fighting and winning and whining if you don't win. We have capital ships and we have fighters, and due to the game mechanics there are some situations that you simply cannot win due to hard counters (cruisers vs fighters, battleships vs gunboats, etc.). In those situations instead of writing "// OMG GANK" in system chat then going on forums to argue about it afterwards, you could try turning tail and running as fast as engines permit... After all, the big idea is not to get killed.

Or if you can't get people to change their perception of fun, and people can't get you to change your perception of fun, then instead of sitting there between a rock and a hard place you could go to some other area of space which isn't nigh completely filled with 12 year olds, and have fun your way there. It is a good option...