To be or not to be?

[Apex]

Tis the question, seems like everyday , something changes online. When I was new and feeling out the game, I made and possiblely still make, rules and RP mistakes. I was hounded , hunted, required to leave systems because IFF didnt match ID, or wrong ship set-up for proper incharacter ship builds, or even when trying to correct IFF issues to be correct, sent away ect ect.

Today a beyond 40 level Xeno-XA member enters Area 21, appearently to travel through the system to (set up) his ship. Now of course this wasnt stated right off the bat, but later was. I'm liberty navy, the other guy involved was liberty navy. RP wise noones allowed to use that gate, heck lsf even run the navy from there. The guy was a notable enemy to all. Was it wrong for me to persue and kill him while playing incharacter, within the rules ?

Reason I ask is the stream of comments I later received, one even from a LPI guy, another from his buddy XA member. Where should the exceptions be made at. You slip up say a few improper things in chat with a pirate that couldnt kill you he gets mad, reports you, course later saying he woulda reported anyways, well I doubt that seriously but hey I'm not a telepath. I'm expected to give other people the leave way that I was never given, because it was stated as being OoRP or an rules violation.

LPI guy stated I shoulda been a gentleman and allowed him to pass through and that it was the fastest route to where he needed to go. Fastest, yes, only route no. His buddy runs off at the mouth about the event and issues the statement your life here is gonna be quite tough with that additude. My statement is to that.. your about 300 plus hours late dude.

Now to top that off, the guy re-enters the system while im still in it before the 4 hour limit is up, I make a comment about it and further get heckled by his friend, that first I shot him down as he was getting his ship together and then made a comment that he returned. Arent there rules for a reason ? or are some people just allowed to break them at thier leisure, then have thier friends harrass you in private chat. Or is it a tool you only enforce on people you dont know or who arent your friends or interfer on makeing things easy for yourselves.

This is just one event, I can go on about others, for instance a very well known person haveing disengaged from combat while in a zone, not being persued mind you 3 times, he was finally asked to leave and did so, but if he wasnt whom he was , people woulda spent no time at all reporting him. This double sided nature to rules enforcement and unwritten rules of what to let people get away with is frankly alot of bull.

I honestly try to refrain from reporting, I realise we are all human, we make mistakes. But whats the real deal here. This is a great game and very good mod. but many times it seems to be who you are or whom you know that dictates the level of enjoyment your allowed to have.