Renaming your ship often is perfectly fine for a smuggler. Its not abuse, its an RP oppertunity. Though I don't agree with him bragging, he should have attempted to keep his name valid for as long as possible.
Frankly, LN has two choices on such things, A: They can respond to the call for help and go there, or B: Stay where they are. Both choices result in people either flaming or making fun of LN. A: They can get tricked by doing A and get laughed at. B: They can not respond and have a forum flame fest for not doing their "job". How about I just order every LN not ever to respond to calls for aid? I'm a little tired of idiots being "dissapointed" because they don't understand how it works, same goes for those that try to make fun of it. It's a system that's easy to abuse. It has only two options and from a public view, seems both are wrong. So, anyone care to comment? I feel like ripping someone's head off right now.
Yes, it can happen if there's more than 1. Also, if there's 2 pirate ships, you naturally send 2 or 3 ships there, not 1. But if its only 1 guy online, which tends to be the case quite often, how do you propose we solve it?
Edit: In the screenshot, 2 LN, 2 pirates, would've been good, sending 1 LN after 2 "alleged" pirates, would've been a bad call, because he can end up dead before the help arrives.
If they didn't go they would have found out he was smuggling and caught him. However, its a Catch-22 because if it was real they would have been flamed...
Exactly as I said, so there is no real choice, and we get flamed either way, and you can see why I'm rather tired of seeing it around the forums every other day? Now, if this does continue I am going to tell them simply not to answer to any distress calls nor give aid to traders, because frankly we do not have to. Flames won't mean anything to me, and I'll make sure they don't mean anything to my other friends as well. Opinions of people around here are rather polluted by idiotic thoughts of 9 year old children making fun of each other. And such behavior from more mature people sickens me.
i think everyone knows that its a "no win" situation for the navy. - the decision is about priorities there.... and the priority set was to assist against pirates that appeared to threaten civilians as opposed to a "might be" deception of smuggle.
for that - the decision made was not only correct, but also logical. - there was evidence that an ambush was taking place, while there was no evidence that this might have been a fake.
now - i like to "preach" consequences..... . a thing many players "dislike".
think of what the navy would do if that happened more often. - it would be inRP if they started to stop EVERY non navy ship, no matter what faction ID - it would be in RP if they shot EVERY ship down instantly without question and discussion that was NOT complying to their order to stop at a jump-in into the systems. - and that is the consequences such an action might carry behind. - and when it would come to that, everyone would scream "bad bad navy" - but ... i have to say it .... the unlawfuls would have brought it upon themselves by acting like that.
I know what's the proper way to act, and I try to tell it to the people in LN to do it. But they do get annoyed by the constant flames and being made fun of, especially when they do nothing wrong. We have our way of punishing those who do things wrong, we test our members often ourselves on their RP capabilities and how they react in situations and judge them based on that. But frankly I'm tired of waking up each morning only to find in LN chat, another notice of such a thread and people getting annoyed by it. I have stopped being a nice guy long long ago in these forums, because frankly the majority of the people here do not deserve to be treated nicely. They fail to comprehend that people come here to make fun, and play their characters, immerse themselves into the roles. And when you get constant problems and being told that you're doing things wrong, especially when the evidence says otherwise, can be a nice reason to lose your motivation.
"Hey, I know, lets go and ridicule some guy for doing what he's supposed to do as a navy officer", after all, the potential loss of life is far more important than a few artifacts getting into manhattan.
But hey, it's easy to luagh at people's stupidity ain't it... Doesn't that make you feel so powerful? So important and inteligent. Well done you.
On another note. I smuggle, the name of my smuggler is pretty obvious. I have enever re-named my smuggler. I like the fun of a chase. The RM are the only people to have ever caught me though...
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