' Wrote:E.g. 2 I used to hire myself out as escort, but it is infeasible to do this with the current rule. Pirate asks for tax, my employer says no, I engage, skirmish ensues, employer hits cruise, I form up with him (engaging cruise), pirate uses CD. Now unless he shoots at me I’m out of the game… and my employer just has to fend for himself.

E.g. 3 Poor factions historically have always used hit and run tactics. It is all they really have, but with this rule you hit once… and then have to leave the server for 4 hours.

E.g. 4 People have often used the wounded animal ploy… where one engages… appears to be losing and runs away drawing out the enemy to where his mates are waiting to pounce. See battle of Hastings for an example of how this has worked in the past.

' Wrote:Offcorse, whenever i tried to thrust away, the "smart" opponent always tried to catch up with cruise engines... :rtfm:if rules were followed to the letter, everything would be alright.

' Wrote:Well ok..the smart people have now then forced me to unrealisticly play this RP server.

I will now park my one character at Atka, Setup an ambush with my ohter character, Take down the guys bats and bots, dock at atka as if Im running away, switch character, come back and finish the job. That is what you people are now forcing me to do.

So, Jippie Kaye..

' Wrote:Well ok..the smart people have now then forced me to unrealisticly play this RP server.

I will now park my one character at Atka, Setup an ambush with my ohter character, Take down the guys bats and bots, dock at atka as if Im running away, switch character, come back and finish the job. That is what you people are now forcing me to do.

So, Jippie Kaye..

' Wrote:engaging a a fighter allied to me and I am in my GB, I enter the fight and the two fighters run, thrusting away from me, and we both give chase. Once they are out of my range they turn and engage my friend who is in a fighter, what do I do? Slowly crawl up to them at GB thruster speed while my friend gets shot up? Or do I use what I have at my disposal to save my friend?

' Wrote:People seem to have this mindset that the only win is kill spam. Any fight you can walk away from is a good one. That's as true to life as it gets. If you are clearly outclassed in a fight and you successfully run away and deny your pursurer his server message, you won. You don't need to go home and fetch your big brother and his friends and beat the hell out of your pursuer 5 minutes later. Thinking you need to resume a fight you (wisely) abandoned once the odds turn to your favour is just being greedy. Take your moral victory, fly to another system, and have a nice day.
If having a gunboat by his side is what gave your ally his advantage in that fight, then he would be an idiot to fly off on his own after a numerically superior enemy. You don't need a rules exemption to save somebody who's doing something wreckless. Win your fights within Disco RP's rules of engagement or don't win. Anything else trying to rationalize cheating.

' Wrote:*sigh*

The situation I described in my earlier post is a HYPOTHETICAL one. Not something that has ever happened to me. I am not trying to rationalise cheating, just creating another perspective to view the issue from. Don't take everything people say as their personal veiw of the issue.

The reason I put that there is in order to get some more clarification of this very woolly rule. It is something that COULD happen and the pursuer in the GB would not nescesarily regard himself as breaking a rule.

Please don't all start shouting if someone presents a veiw that is contrary to your own, it just doesn't need it. I am simply presentin possible situations for clarification.

EDIT: Also, if you can kill a pilot, that is better for your char's cause than if you just see him off only for him to come back with all his mates. Becuase the rule is in place it doesn't mean you can behave like it mnakes a difference for you CHARS motivations.

For example, in real life if there is a gunfight between two people, and one runs off shouting "I'll be back soon, I am calling for re-inforcements!!!" you would stop him from doing that, 'cos him coming back with all his mates would reduce you likelyhood of more long term survival. Your char should behave as if this is the case rather than going ... "Phew I saw him off, now it's impossible for him to come back for four hours, 'cos thats just how the universe is."