Little incident today

[Commodore]

Okay today in kusari when I was trading a pirate came up and I ran. A battleship came to help me. then we held him off for long until he ran. Then I continued my trade run. When I was in the trade lane he came back. Then my mom came and told me we HAD to go somewhere. I had to leave due to real life issues, so I told the person I needed to leave. He told me to pay him first but I didnt have time to do it as I already was in the loading screen when he told me. would this be considered F1ing? If it is, im sorry and will not do it again. otherwise, there should be in the rules that there will be an exception in f1ing if the person being attacked has real life issues. Now, the leader of my faction says im in trouble, but its not my fault. Ill have to stop playing discovery until the rules get updated if I get accused of f1ing. ITS REAL LIFE AND ILL GET GROUNDED IF I DONT LOG OFF!!!

[Cousin Ned]

I dont know what the rules are but you should not be blamed for that. Having a real life is still important :cool:
I cant imagine someone F1ing that to avoid something as simple as a pirate condoned passage fee, but crazier stuff happens. I am sure if you press the issue and make sure to avoid it happening in the future that you will be alright.:)

[Commodore]

plus I was kinda stupid not to dock on shinagawa station when I had the chance. oh silly me!

[Archelon]

That was me pirating you Commodore. Your clan leader paid me for you.

As to the rules of F1 for real life. I can totally understand that. Emergencies such as something catches fire, someone gets injured or worse, I'd drop everything and not deal with the game later. Your mom coming home and tellin you to get off the computer - doesn't take much time to pay the fine and logout. I'd say if you gotta leave, state its a real life issue and either pay the toll before F1 or agree to continue the battle or pay the toll at a later date. Its not the other player's fault you had to leave.

[Zyreal]

I can however see that maybe he would have attempted to run if he could have stayed.

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[Archelon]

Considerin I killed the trade lane he was attemptin to enter and had his shields and hull goin down, I seriously doubt it. A BSG was providin some good cover, but the Commodore's time was close to an end.

[Commodore]

That was me pirating you Commodore. Your clan leader paid me for you.

As to the rules of F1 for real life. I can totally understand that. Emergencies such as something catches fire, someone gets injured or worse, I'd drop everything and not deal with the game later. Your mom coming home and tellin you to get off the computer - doesn't take much time to pay the fine and logout. I'd say if you gotta leave, state its a real life issue and either pay the toll before F1 or agree to continue the battle or pay the toll at a later date. Its not the other player's fault you had to leave.

bout that, I dont have time to do that, and I didnt get to hear you say that UNTIL apparently I was already logged out.

that and what kind of pirate has no CD?

I could just cruise away.

[Dab]

In my opinion, when a parent tells you to get off the comp, you can take the 2 minutes it takes to get to a base. If the pirate gets you before then, tough luck.

If something is on fire, I'd say that warrants you getting off immediately. This; "Well my mom is making me get off" is used at least twice a day on the server, and very rarely is it true. I've seen people use that and log off that char, then log back on 3 minutes later on a different character I knew was theres. Then when they have seen the person that was pirating log off, they would log back onto their trader. Its a very easily abused, and often abused, excuse.

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[Craines]

In a situation like this, I won't even log off, I'll just announce that there is a RL emergency and if someone doesn't believe me they can blow me up. When I don't respawn, well, looks like I was telling the truth!

I've only had to do this once, though. My dog hates thunder, and there was a MASSIVE storm outside. I heard something, had ignored it, finally checked, and lo and behold, little Lori had chewed through my screen door.

Needless to say, I had to postpone the Helghast battle.

That's what I advise. There isn't anything in this game that you can acquire that goes away when you are killed that can't be regained. So if you truly need to leave, just let the pirate kill you. Or go into cruise and point upwards. Either one works.

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