Can a pirate follow a fleeer

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Ok, today I was doing some trading with my IRL friend, I was doing the leeds superalloys run to alster shipyard when in omega 7, we get the tradelane disrupted message. Waiting there is a Player controled corsair. I decide to immediatly do the TAB kill trick on my clydesdale and ask him why should we stop. During that time, my friend fall back a little but still manages to flee. After this the corsair follewed him in franckfurt and berlin until my friend docks to bonn. Where I went after selling my cargo to check if he was still here. Also, he shooted on my friend whitouth any engagement notice saying the Halt or Die message he supposibly said was one. He also did something against the server rules since he shot my friend while he was docking at bonn.

Make your life easier and RP such a situation out instead of just running.
(And leaving your friend alone to the pirates guns is a bad attitude as well
in my eyes.)

However, the rules say that a pirate can deal as much damage as he sees fit before
he must make a demand - he just must not blow you guys up without having made a
demand before he does so if you do not comply.

Here's the rule about it:

6.19 Pirates have a right to deal as much damage as they see fit before or after
demanding money from a trader ship, but killing trader ship before demanding
money or cargo is not allowed.

When I get pirated I do halt when I know there's no way to escape safely, and try
to put some RP to the situation - if the pirating player is not a newbie thinking of piracy
being a serious way to make cash he will love to do some RP with you and prolly
lower his demand to a level you both can life with.

In RP you must fear for your life, and when it comes to that you'd certainly do everything
to stay alive, even if this would mean to drop all your cargo.

On the other side, when I do pirate I usually do it for the RP and ask for cargo my faction
can make good use of - the "2 mill or die" demand is just poor and lame - however, when
a trader tries to run without doing any RP with me, or when he tries to fool me in any other
way he maybe will get away with that once but certainly not a second time.

Many pirate players, at least the more experienced and mature ones, do now that piracy
is not a serious way to make cash, with a trader, even when you get taxed from time to
time, you can easily make 20x more cash then by piracy.

Besides that - if the pirate was at a higer level and already had a good ship it
was pretty poor to attack you in your low level Clydesdale, I assume your
friend also had a low level freighter - but as I wasn't involved I can't tell if he
just wanted to thrill you guys and do some RP with you, keeping his demand
very low or if he was just that kind of player I personally dislike a lot - a guy
lacking any sense for what is fair - next time talk to him and you will find out
what kind of player he is.

And if he really is a jerk abusing his higher level and power - safe up some cash
and put a bounty up on his head.

Edit:

After I reread your post - I've to confess that, no matter how much I'd like to,
I can't believe that this pirate was a "nice" one, nice in the sense of being interested
in RP at the very first place. Following your mate to Bonn and shooting at him there
right in front of the Rheinland BS Straussberg was OoRP as it can be - and I'd dare
to presume that he most probably was not hostile to the station nor the BS when
he attacked your friend.



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Cheers

John

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