She has the right to do it because no one can stop her - right by conquest!
A minor correction to my previous statement as well, she has not actually interdicted anyone, just asked them to leave the system. OP just scanned her, saw weapons and assumed the worst.
Honestly I regret posting, I feel that people are taking their anger out on me. Don't shoot the messenger!
I'm sorry you feel that way because I don't have any anger at this time at all. That's because I don't tend to form opinions which are strong enough to become angry about without information on which to do so.
However since none is being provided, the best I can do is make an inference based on the evidence that is available; specifically that a player is occupying a system which has no strategic value at all (I'm assuming she isn't there to prep it for a Hudson PP expansion attempt in 3309...) but is one of the most commonly visited systems by explorers who would be in no position to deal with an assault from a fully armed corvette even if they were inclined to try.
Can't really see what she's getting out of that myself, other than an inflated (and grossly misplaced) sense of self importance. If any evidence to suggest otherwise should present itself I will cheerfully reappraise my opinion.
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Well he/she/it is a t i t.
Edit: As so often happens, Leo has said it far more succinctly than me.
I will say that despite the fact I have very few issues with FD, the degree of hedging, fence sitting and generally absolving themselves of the responsibility for defining griefing in this game and holding players to account for it is almost unparalleled in my experience of online gaming. Having a statement in the EULA/ToS is worthless unless someone is ever going to get their thumb out of their posterior and actually do something about it; they would do better to simply remove the statement completely and with it their responsibility to do anything other than wring their hands and issue mealy-mouthed statements about how things are 'regrettable' or 'not encouraged'.
It's great having a no naming and shaming policy on the forums as long as players know the company themselves give a single crap about these issues. My impression is increasingly that they don't, or at least that they don't give enough of one to actually confront the issue head on.
To be clear, I'm not especially concerned
where the line is drawn; just that it is drawn. Right now it seems to be a moveable one that sits approximately an inch to the right of whatever specific incident is raised. That is just gutless - one day they are going to have to bite the bullet and stop trying to make everybody happy because in the process of doing that, they will end up making
nobody happy.
