My lightspeed is faster than yours

[chopper]

Then I noticed that one ship followed close (the bomber), while the other would catch up using formation, EK, fire a CD, repeat.

If this is happening in cruise, then yes, it is a legit tactic.
I'v been chased by people forming up on NPC's to catch up on me, and then fire a CD from ekill.
It's not an exploit, simply because it is teamwork.
Maybe the bomber didn't have CD's, so there was no point for him to drop from cruise?
Anyway, I see it as totally legitimate.

Sorry for getting it wrong, I'm just used to 'cruise catchup' threads.

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[outlawman]

If this is happening in cruise, then yes, it is a legit tactic.
I'v been chased by people forming up on NPC's to catch up on me, and then fire a CD from ekill.
It's not an exploit, simply because it is teamwork.
Maybe the bomber didn't have CD's, so there was no point for him to drop from cruise?
Anyway, I see it as totally legitimate.

Sorry for getting it wrong, I'm just used to 'cruise catchup' threads.

Anyway, I'm curious as to where I can access the extra 70 speed my ship is capable of producing, because... Man! That sure would come in handy. Oh, wait, I can't... Only the other guy can. ...and why? There's no why, there's no reason, there's no explanation, he simply can.

It's not an exploit, simply because it is teamwork.

Woah, there's a bunch of things that you can accomplish with teamwork that not only are bad, but also infringe on written rules. How about two ships engaging a capital, one fires, the other keeps ramming the capital? That's teamwork and not only is an exploit, but also against the rules. Teamwork doesn't make a tactic less bad.

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[chopper]

True, but forming up is the part of freelancer.
And as you may have noticed, Freelancer isn't awfully realistic.
But as in every other situation, you had a solution in this one as well.

Thrust off with bomber on your tail. BC must not cruise to catch up.
Thrust off to some 8-9k away from BC and then start your cruise engines.
BC will not be able to form up on a bomber, simple as that.

I mean, yeah, we can make more rules, but why?

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It is every Corsair's responsibility to die a beautiful death in defense of Crete, regardless of how OORP or how capwhoring the opposition is. Launch your fighter, joust the battlecruisers and die a beautiful death. Then, drink it down in the bar.

Can't let you bash folks in your sig Chopper-Del

[tfmachad]

You may find some colorful explanations to your question (not the original one, this last one) in this thread. You may be disappointed with the theories, though.

For more misinformation on a totally unrelated subject, refer to this other one. Well actually that one is related to this as it deals with "unwritten rules".

Either way, it looks like all the ruckus have grabbed the admins' attention to certain shady areas in the rules and of the gameplay. It seems your question falls into something of a different category, though: How to deal with the exploits (ab)used by the vast majority of the server?

Instead of talking over and over about how we should turn off catching up I'll try and check if it can be disabled. That would avoid A LOT of abuse (?), grievances, and threads.

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