Is the engine kill from cruise rule required?

[Archelon]

Archelon, no matter how fast and agile CDs are, a larger ship has a small chance of hitting a smaller ship with one. Here again, stalemate. Smaller ship must shield run everytime he engages, big ship can't stop him. Neither does damage, bye bye any pvp.

First and foremost, this is NOT the PVP server. Thus, this argument is not valid.

Also, your entire 'sarcasm' section about people reporting shield running because a guy is running.. That was written for the pure fact of argument, and that was it. You know full well there is a difference between shield running and running. Shield running means you come back. Running means your out of the fight permanently.

Interesting since I was accused of shield running today while I attempted to escape (end the conflict). I've also been accused of it on other occasions. How can you tell the difference? The difference is when you come back to re-engage. So until somebody attempts to re-engage, don't threaten with screens. This spoils the RP experience. Anytime somebody calls me a shield runner when I'm attempting to escape, I call "fight's off". I don't play that way and would like the courtesy of the benefit of the doubt. If I turn and come back for you, then call me on it.

On the same note, if I am attempting to escape and my shields are down and you continue pursuit, I have the right to defend myself.

Allowing shield running would result in stalemates and 3-hour 1v1 capship fights, if they ever finished at all. This was seen plenty during the first SA vs AW war. SA would be using massive amount of capships. They'd shield run at every available chance, and because there were 3-4 others BSs shooting us, we couldn't stop to CD the guy 18 hundred times. Stalemate here, fights never ended, or ended after 3 hours.

Your point here is capital ship vs fighter. Yes, that's part of RP (not PVP). A capital ship in RP would have a difficult time of hitting a fighter and a fighter would not be expected to kill a capital ship alone. Its RP. Bottom line - this rule belongs on the PVP server, not on the RP server.

Shield running is a tactic, but when overused and abused is causes nothing but disruption of gameplay. This abuse is what caused admins to declare it a rule violation from now on.
BTW, F1ing during JH/JG doesn't slingshot you to far side of a system. Its random for every JH, but always the same end point for a specific JH. One JH might take you 20km from where your supposed to come out, another might take you 40km off the map.. Its random. I advise you don't use it.. Several will land you in a sun, or other dangerous place, or 30 minutes from any TL/JG/JH.

No disruption in gameplay. Perhaps a better rule would be that if the fight lasts longer than X amount of time, the fight is a draw and everyone must discontinue combat.

For the F1 in jumpholes/jumpgates - doesn't matter where it sends you. If you are a trader being chased by a pirate or a pirate being chased by the military, you are exploiting a flaw in the game code and thus cheating. I've been that pirate chasing a trader that did this very thing. No - no screens - I'm sick of all this screen capture stuff. If anything disrupts gameplay its when somebody cries foul and starts taking screens. Taking screens of everything can also be abuse.