Pirates, terrorists and PvPabuse

[Vogel]

The Joker's an exception to a rule. Also he doesn't seem to mind getting ganked, which means he isn't out there for the killing, just the fighting, which is a different animal altogether. But you can't use him as an excuse to let random people go around gunning about for no good reason, otherwise the server devolves into Discovery of Discovery. Even if the pirate ID is abused, checks like that tend to be the only thing giving some kind of rhyme and reason to it all.

As far as not fighting in the server, I can say that I hate lag with every fiber of my being, and that fighting in this game isn't fun, especially when I run into instances of entire RHA contingents jumping through a gate, only to run into me (alone) in a gunboat, and shouting "ATTACK THE FASCIST". Nor do I find it fun when I run into pirates who demand an absurd amount of money because all they want to do is blow me up. As such whenever I play I end up hugging bases where I can dock, and battleships that fire back, because quite honestly that's the only thing preventing me from being shot to pieces for no justifiable reason every 5 minutes.