A call to end the rule lawyering/badgering

[Tequilla.Sunrise]

...new people join and are usually unaware of the rules...

I made sure me and my boys knew and were familiar with the rules before we got here. But yeah, I hear what you're saying - you have no idea how many traders threaten to sanction me if I pirate them. I laugh merrily while blowing their ship out from under them, while they scream bloody sanction. I laugh merrily because I, unlike them, know the rules, and know that I won't get sanctioned just because I'm pirating a Zoner. I also laugh merrily as they come back in a ship for revenge, which underscores their ignorance.

What I've gathered is a huge lack to listen to reason. I PM them telling them that what they're doing is wrong, but they don't listen. I know, because I've dealt with it - they care more about 'winning' than they do about fair play, and in the end they don't win. They either get sanctioned, or at least blown up by me.

All in all, I find it funny what traders will say to get out of being pirated. I, again, just laugh and blow them up as they try to rules lawyer their way out of it. After telling them that they're wrong, and seeing them verbally abuse me by way of thanks, I see why sanctions are oh so necessary.

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"It's a another hollow feeling... when it comes down to dealing friends..."

Rebel-II (Manta)
Snow.Wyrm (Chimera)
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