If he's carrying a bounty, he's fair game. If he's running a blockade, you tell him to scram and he doesn't, fair game. If he's a hold full of loot and elects not to proffer you some as you hoist the jolly roger, he's fair game.
If he's just pootling about minding his own business and you decide to kill him, it's griefing. No other word for it. People seem hung up on the idea that if you don't get banned for it it's not griefing. Yes it is. You're running an in-game loss by fighting him. You're only doing it as you enjoy upsetting him.
Now, don't get me wrong, I think anyone in an Anaconda should be able to duke it out or make good their escape and I find it utterly utterly hilarious that he elected not to and got whacked. I said as much and repped you up for making yourself known to the forum, but let's not pretend you opened fire for any other reason than to make someone else a sad panda.
I'm not trying to spur an argument with you but I am trying to be realistic here. I don't grief, I look for fights, and most of the time I intentionally punch above my weight class (metaphorically speaking as that Orca is just a big fat heavy cow). In any real world scenario, by all rights I should have been slaughtered in that engagement or forced to run. I was looking for a fight, not tears. I was satisfied with the fight, the tears were an added bonus after the fact. Normally when I'm out for antics or doing something for the sake of being a I'm usually talking about it on comms or laughing about it. My setup gives me away, it records my microphone input automatically (as you can hear the cracking of my ecig during the fight). I was very much tense and in the zone during that because I was I was winning a fight I shouldn't have been. What didn't get recorded on the DVR was the huge sigh of relief after SCing out of the last engagement zone, followed by me telling my buddies on comms "Holy crap you'll never believe what I just pulled off". I was genuinely stoked until I got to the station and met with all the salty insults from the esteemed conda pilot. After docking and repairing I was going to give him a "GF" but he took the initiative with being a dbag. If you've seen the video, there is another one on the same youtube channel called "The Great White" which shows some of the other prey I've gone after, had a similar engagement with a conda that combat logged, a Vulture that I squished in one pass (and later after talking to the pilot fought one v one with and lost) and a Python that got annihilated after he interdicted ME. My normal activities include going after viable combat ships with viable combat ships. I am about hands down the single worst pirate in ED history. Hell sometimes I interdict people, ask them to tell me I'm pretty, then let them go.
I steer clear of the starter areas, the last time i was out there I was in a Cobra, interdicted an eagle, and had about a ten minute fight with this guy that I won at 6% hull (rail eagles are brutal). He's now a friend and we do lots of absurd ops like Deathwinder squads, or combat type 6 interdicting wanted pythons. I really take offense to being flat out called a griefer. I'm out there looking for people to play with, yes it's at gunpoint but their attitude about it makes ALL the difference in the world.
Or conversely yours, and the other PKers, too high?
I wonder which of the two categories people fall into might be distinguishable by age?
Who's up for an over 30s group? You get kicked if you text speak, PK or have heard of any bands in the top 40.
Also I'd be down for that group. I'm 32 myself and have no idea what the current bands even are!
