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Quote:. But it could've just as easily been that it was a newer player, or one that was confused. Maybe they were going in for organics and then saw the DMC was available, and ran to go stash it before coming back. Maybe they were confused why a friendly player was suddenly demanding to know where they were going, and to hold their item that they know is valuable. It's a much, much better idea to let us sort these things out for this reason.
That's why I said I had doubts and questioned. As you saw in the logs, I did reach out. Most new players who are confused would respond, or even retort with such a claim in PM. Or at the very least, rage? There was nothing on Discord either.
Yeah, that's OORP info with the PMs. But let's be honest, the moment I realised he was likely using an alt to bypass restrictions - when he was coming from below plane - that's when I became immediately sus as fuck. (It was already far gone from RP because they didn't come here to RP anyway to be honest). Not that there was much effort to try and talk it out from their end.
And obviously I came there to loot the wrecks. But the other dude got there first, as I discovered. That's why I was camping. But, seeing the wrecks HP being depleted, could you insinuate that silly game mechanic is inRP despite it existing in the game? I knew it was taken, I was obviously there to loot both of them it myself. And I knew there was another ship in the area somewhere. We were there for hours.
You can't say they didn't have any opportunity to talk either, so if they were sincere and innocent there was a chance to resolve this. Even after they were blasted, I had PM'd them. I baited with a provocative question because I wanted them to talk instead of being silent. There was no elaboration, no attempt to talk. No response. I would have given it back if it was someone who was genuinely confused. No effort was made to PM despite being online for at least 20 mins more or so.
You can't say this was in deliberate malicion when an effort is made to talk. All they had to do was talk or reply. I certainly had some doubts incase my hunch was wrong. Because I thought this MIGHT have gone to CSA pob in Coronado when I saw a ship swap to a thing there. I wasn't certain.
I honest to god - think both of these bans are redundant and silly. Someone tried to cheat - refused to talk, but failed by trial of fire. And I got banned for forgetting to tag a ship and having deductive reasoning to suspect something is wrong. Draconian and crude by being a vigilante and letting him live with his failed effort, yes, but the L was already there. A lesson to learn at least.
Though it's still incredibly humoring to me that you're considering what I did was about as bad as someone willingly intending to exploit/cheat to be honest?? It's excessive.