Quote:Hello there....
Alright, after some sleep the anger I felt tonight is gone but I'm still left with large disappointment.
But before I start, I want to say that until now, I only had enjoyable encounters with the RM, and I owe you some huge Kudos for that, you have some awesome RPers in your ranks!
Myself (AGS-L|Bastian.Brauer) and AGS-U|Matthias Zevronen were on our ships last nightand noticed that Admiral Malexa was in Hamburg. We set course there expecting some fun RP but when we arrived at NB Hamburg was empty. I then went to Darmstadt to change ships and when I came back the Roc of my friend was surrounded by one [RM] Wraith, 5 indy RMs (including one Cruiser) and an AA|- Mercenary.
So far so good we thought, lets RP with them a bit, then leave.
After interchanging some propaganda we tryed to leave but seconds after [RM]Fl.Heinrich.Kraus told the others to kill the enemies of the state.
Two seconds later Matthias was instakilled by the cruiser, I chose to retreat to Kreuzberg.
The horde followd me all the way through the Asteroid, then the Debris field to Kreuzberg, than staying around the base within 1.5k distance.
Thats the story, now the points that disappointed me.
As for this incident, I know the RM can't be held responsible for the action of indies, but you can at least try to hold them back. I don't care about if they choose to follow the RMs orders or not, but he hasn't even tried.
I don't mind being shot at, I'm RPing a revolutionary, but come on, 6 VHFs and a Cruiser vs. a single HF? Continue to chasing him all the way to the base just to get the blue message?
On top of that, the Jaho177 guy still had a Recruit ID, that also stayed uncommented by the RM pilot.
I always felt the RM had a sense of fairness, but that was just poor. If you want to play it that way, fine just tell us and we'll summon 6 friends as well next time we see a lone RM ship patrolling Stuttgart.
I thought I would take the time to mention to you, Wuselkobold and Grail, that while indeed you were out-numbered and the fight was nowhere near fair, that was taken into consideration. I'm glad your anger has subsided, but I feel as the Flieger in this situation, I'll have my say as well.
You've conveniently left out of your screenshots where I asked you at least five times to stand down and accept an escort out of the system. I quote myself in the situation, "Don't make me resort to bloodshed against one who under different circumstances could be a brother." After you slung (to be fair, in-RP) insults in response, I gave you one final chance to come with me and leave.
You decided to venture off on your own after (as you say yourself) mentioning something concerning getting food back at your base. I'm sure you would want to avoid a grossly unfair fight, but these indies were on patrol with me, so it's not like they all came out of nowhere to gank you. We sat and spoke for a good fifteen minutes before anything happened.
In RP, my character isn't just going to take your word for it and let you fly off. You refused my options and you paid the price. I think instead of telling the RM to become more lenient with unlawfuls, you should perhaps instruct unlawfuls to be more careful when blatantly flying around populated core systems. My rant is officially complete. No offense intended, but I thought I'd represent myself.
If this was meant to be your way of saying you don't want to fight, then I apologize. To me, it looked as though you were just ignoring my command and it was unacceptable for me to allow an unlawful to meander off on his own just because there are more of us than him. The entire fight could have been avoided if you'd just allowed me to remove you from the system peacefully, as I had intended from the start.