(11-12-2013, 01:37 PM)Karst Wrote: I don't see how the rule can be interpreted the way you're describing, Agmen.
It clearly states that docking in combat as a trade vessel does not count as a pvp death, because trade vessels are exempt from the "docking counts as a pvp death" rule.
And if pvp death did not occur, why shouldn't I be able to bring another ship to the engagement?
(aside from possibly violating the metagaming rule, depending on what I bring)
You just answered your own question, in exactly the way I intended with my phrasing.
The CHARACTER in the trading ship didn't die, that's correct. But the player BEHIND the character is now switching ships to engage in combat, whether it's with a different or the same character.
You as the PLAYER are meta-gaming. You can argue that it's a different character - or even the same character and he just happened to have another ship sitting at the same station. Obviously there have been sanctions in the past for switching ships to re-engage - I really don't need to go find them. And I do understand your perspective that the transport 'didn't die' under the rules.
I just think that it's exceedingly nit picking and attempting to find a loophole where one is not intended to exist. We've always played that you can't switch characters, and that's obviously the intent of rule 3.2. It's also pretty obvious that the intent behind rule 3.4 is to allow trade ships to dock, sell their stuff, and continue trading. Not to give you a loophole to switch ships and go forth into combat.
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
