Admin Notice: Player Sanctioned

[Zack]

I think you may have missed the scenario that happened. The Pirate was using a transport to pirate another transport who was affiliated with the IMG. I ran this scenario past a friend of mine who happens to be in the military, I can point you in his direction if you'd like to confirm this. This is how the conversation went:

Me: I've got a scenario to run past you, say that you're on patrol in an Abrams, and you see two freight trucks that are driving in front of you when one of them pokes a 50cal machine gun out the windows and demands that the other truck pay them. The "innocent" truck attempts to flee and yells at you in your Abrams for help. The "evil" truck opens fire on the "innocent" truck with lethal intent and prevents them from getting away. You request they cease fire, they reply to you, "I don't think so," what do you do?

Him: Well, before they opened fire, we would have asked them to stand down, our goal is to prevent violence. If they continued to disregard us or, in this case decline our cease fire, we would fire a warning shot near them, but not at them, to let them know we're not to be trifled with. If they then opened fire we would be obligated to perform a "grill kill."

Me: Err, grill kill?

Him: We'd use the 50 cal. on the top of the MBT to shoot out the engine of the "evil" truck. Shoot the grill of the car, hence: "grill kill."

Me: Hmm... well this particular Abrams is unable to perform that, seeing as this "evil" truck has an engine impervious to anything below 51 cal. ammunition. And now the "evil" truck has opened fire on the "innocent" truck.

Him: lol, ok. If they had opened fire, we'd be sure that they had lethal intent, and the "grill" part of "grill kill" would no longer apply. Grill + kill - grill = kill, so we'd blast that mother$&#@%^ into next Friday.

Let me make sure I address this completely as to prevent confusion. I'll go through this line-by-line.

If this in fact your sanction report,

It is.

then the reason for this is so everyone doesn't just get into caps and gank transports whenever they see them.

Gank? This wasn't a gank, I wasn't trying to get my lulwut on, I didn't just go "LOLTRANSPORTUDIENOWK?" I mean... really? I don't have plans to "gank" every transport I see, nor -was- I. I have seen tons of transports fly by, I guard them and assist when they're in trouble. I didn't cruise through the trade lane I was in and say, "Hmm, that there is a Pirate Transport attempting to Pirate an IMG Transport, LET'S MAKE SOME POPCORN, THERE'S GONNA BE FIREWORKS" I thought, "Hmm... that IMG Transport is being Pirated, what would a military officer do?" I didn't stop to demolish a Pirate Transport, I didn't even know it -was- a Pirate Transport until I stopped and scanned. Saying I would "just get into [a cap] and gank transports whenever [I] see them" is an extreme example of a one-time scenario.

I mean in theory by your reckoning the smallest freighter in the game is fair play to gank with a massive cruiser. Hardly fair play, is it? There is such a thing as totally excessive force.

Wait, what? How did you pull that meaning from my reply? This transport was in danger for it's life, it had no shields remaining and was losing hull quickly. Saying that I would assume it's fair for a "massive [carrier]" to gank a Dromedary is just... I mean... do you assume I'm retarded? Seriously, do you? I'm not mad because I think this rule is unfair now, I'm mad because for whatever reason you assume I'm in the lowest percentile of... pet rocks? I know this is excessive, perhaps the Pirate should've thought, "Hmm... that's a carrier, it would make space dust out of me." Instead they went "Haha! Rules, booyah! I get to hide behind a totally unrealistic rule and perform something totally unrealistic! I'm going to pirate someone in the middle of the road, in plain sight of the law, look at how in RP I am!"

Transports have no chance whatsoever against capital ships, and don't cry that they should bring escorts because you'd need a half dozen escorts of bombers to even easily beat a decently piloted carrier.

PFFFHAHAHAHAHA! This actually got a laugh from me IRL. So tell me, why isn't there a rule against bombers attacking Transports? I suppose that's fair, right? Transports barely have a chance against Fighters. Transports don't have an inkling of a chance against Gunboats, but that's a fair fight, right? But a LAWFUL cruiser, making a LAWFUL demand of an UNLAWFUL character in blatantly LAWFUL space is totally unfair. And don't say you'd need half-a-dozen bombers to kill a carrier, you'd need two, maybe one if they know what they're doing.

So yeah, it is to promote fair play and reasonable interaction, something you forgot when you blew away the pirate transport with your liberty carrier.

REASONABLE interaction? I was reasonable, I suppose the next time I see a police cruiser (or police car, to be sure you understand, that's the lingo we use around here) in the streets, I'll break out a hand-gun and mug the nearest pedestrian I can find, and--according to this rule--it will be reasonable for that cruiser to... what? Say, "Sorry buddy, but my car is much to nice to stop and help you, in fact, I'm pretty sure I could solve this with my eyes closed, but who cares? Better cough up that dough! I've got places to be, those donuts don't eat themselves!"

So what do I do next time I see that happen right in front of me? Just say, "// Sorry I have to break your RP immersion really quick with this blatantly contradictory to RP rule, but you're going to die, and there is nothing I can do about it, I sure am glad I paid 1,000,000,000 credits to hopefully help deal with this ridiculous influx of Piracy to only be ruled out of doing anything against this Transport. Gee-willickers, I should've just bought a bomber." The Cap Ships are already restricted to their "home space," why are they further restricted within those systems by a rule that makes less sense than this picture?

Oh, also, I wouldn't take such a sarcastic approach to this if I didn't get the same vibe from you, Kuraine; if you insult me and mock my intelligence then expect the same in return.

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