The term ''Fair and Equal fight''

[Tenacity]

Dunno, ten, you were the one shooting my buttocks off back in NY xD yeah, my bad for engaging cruise and leaving jim on his own.
Better fun next time.

When was this?

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[Guest]

Hurr, 5 days ago... i think it was you, or is my memory failing me. Ten...something. Tenebras maybe? Osiris near manhattan.

[Tenacity]

Tenabras is not my character, that's stewcool's. I do not own an osiris battleship, my order character (aki.kimura) flies a nephthys fighter.

Though, hearing that tenabras was in vicinity of manhattan is disturbing. He's supposed to be setting an example for the rest of the order, and assaulting a civilian planet isnt exactly doing that well.

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[atom]

Consider this you are a zoner mapping systems you enter enemy territory and are engaged by a keeper in his fighter, fair doo's your in his system, you do your utmost to get the Heck out of there, your fighting a keeper and a bunch of npcs, you make it to the JH and through the other side still being chased by keeper, there's another bunch of nomad npcs on the other side your shields are down and your trying to escape, the keeper is still pounding you, along comes an outcast in a rouge gb, ah you say saved, but no the other human in his gb proceeds to join the fight and kills you. did he scan me to find out if I was an enemy no, he calls you a shaved faced ape and lol's when you say that was not very fair. are the outcasts now nomads in disguise and have no qualms about killing other human players, I ask you.?

[n00bl3t]

Im suprised Sindroms didnt run off with his tail between his legs, screaming dont engage me im trying to bully you...oh wait Sindromes was in a bigger ship....that explains it lolololol

I laughed. Apologies.

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.

[Guest]

I laughed. Apologies.

I usually prefer to die and RP my escape pod running, thank you heh heh

[Guest]

Consider this you are a zoner mapping systems you enter enemy territory and are engaged by a keeper in his fighter, fair doo's your in his system, you do your utmost to get the Heck out of there, your fighting a keeper and a bunch of npcs, you make it to the JH and through the other side still being chased by keeper, there's another bunch of nomad npcs on the other side your shields are down and your trying to escape, the keeper is still pounding you, along comes an outcast in a rouge gb, ah you say saved, but no the other human in his gb proceeds to join the fight and kills you. did he scan me to find out if I was an enemy no, he calls you a shaved faced ape and lol's when you say that was not very fair. are the outcasts now nomads in disguise and have no qualms about killing other human players, I ask you.?

First of all, please present to me (in Pm or other) where i Lold at you.

Second, you were in the nomad territory.

Third, you fired upon Keepers.Sil

Fourth,

you do your utmost to get the Heck out of there

no, you flew right through Iota into 99. you should have just turned back.

Fift, my characters RP message dump thingie is in the stories and my chars history is somewhere as well.

Sixt, if you had questions, you could have PMed me in game or on the forums, not trial me by forum.

[Grimly]

Hey, you don't know what a sabre can do !!!
It's simply awesome ! You have to take an entire fleet for them !


For exemple, I was playing on YAMMI in New York with an other outcast player. We killed, without reloads of bats/bots, 1 BHG missile boat, then an other BHG gunboat (without missiles) AND (at the same time) a liberty CRUISER...

I didn't believed the sabre were that much powerful.

Now everyone know why liberty have to call all his fleet to stop a single rogue fighter.

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Taking what's yours since 816 A.S.

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Did I mention any names I don't think so. but if the shoe fits.....

[carlabrams]

there is a difference between a war and the codes of honour associated with the concept of duelling.

it is true that, the raw essence of war is to win and ther eis no concept of unfairness or fairness.

but in later ages, as man came to appreciate the need to value true skills in combat, a code ofhonour did evolve in whcih men did pay respect to the individual skills each had developed. hence in France we saw the Musketeers, and in later years the gentleman's duelling code. Especially after the Dark Ages, mankind did come to appreictae that wars were ugly, but need not be dishonourable and leave a bad taste behind it if at all possible.

So for example: the most skilled fencer in the world could be most pitiably slain by a archer 30 yards distant. But it is the archers name which shall be forever tainted by his choice of way to defeat his opponent.

What is a combatant int he position of an archer to do? Sometimes, they call for a time and place for mutual combat and forewarned choice of weapons. Other times, the archer would merely cripple the fencer and then give him the chance to retreat alive, preserving their honour.

Dn't forget the code of honour, in times of hardship, it is all that divides men from animals.

And this is the reason why France doesn't win any modern wars - their soldiers are good, but their generals aren't... <dons flameproof coat>

Anyway - keeping in mind that this is a game and NOT real life - in a game, you can pretty much do whatever you want. If you choose to handicap yourself, then more power to you. Quite honestly, I play this game for the RP perspective only, the PvP activities are completely secondary to me. That's why I tend to die in combat against players - I'm also physically quite a bit older than nearly all of you, and I don't have fast reaction times, either. (For that matter, my KIDS are older than a lot of you...)

In real life - you can, as an individual, have a code duello. From a survival perspective in a space combat environment such as the game simulates - you'll have a great legacy for your obituary. In actual combat, there is no such thing as a fair fight. You can show mercy to the person you're beating or that you've beaten, which is perfectly fine. You're either out there to stomp the crap out the person you're fighting, or you have no business being out there in the first place.

And yes, I do have experience in the real world military, so I DO know what I'm talking about. For that matter, in the Freelancer world, you'd need something like the convention from the Honor Harrington Universe - otherwise wars between the house systems would be over pretty quickly. Who needs missiles and beam weapons when there are such lovely things as kinetic energy strikes available?

War is hell - there is no doubt of that.

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