- notwithstanding the fact that had this been the case that it would have been likely that the Conda and the FdL would be lost to each other well before one ship ran out of fuel, seeing as the Conda's boost speed was obviously faster than the FdL's IF the OP had decided to just keep boost-boost-boosting away, the FdL would never have caught up with it. In fact I'd wager that the FdL would run out of fuel way before the Conda had this chase lasted for hours
It hasn't escaped my notice that the one thing that - for want of a better phrase - the rabid PvP'ers get their endorphin-rush the most out of, is seeing the other ship go KABLOOEY! This appears to be a prime motivation for their behaviour in this game. Denying these players their KABLOOEY! seems to me that it's rather like depriving an addict of their rush, and bad things always happen due to that. This might explain why the CMDR of the FdL was so persistent in chasing after the Conda - they wanted their KABLOOEY! pretty badly.
No. You've offended some people who have no life outside of ED. What's the problem?
Objection! Changes the frame of the original argument - which was that the Conda - as stated by the OP - had gained so much distance from the FdL that the FdL's weapons were no longer reaching the Conda
That statement would be true only if your first sentence was the actual accepted framing of the argument and not the fact that the Anaconda was managing to increasingly gain distance from the attacking FdL
No. You've offended some people who have no life outside of ED. What's the problem?
But your honor, speculation...
The defendant testified that:
"Before I could jump into super-cruise he had my shields down and my hull is slowly crumbling. I went to high-wake out and, horror of horror, my FSD is unavailable, offline. He had shot it out. So now all I can do is boost and wait to die. So I kept boosting, he kept firing, but amazingly I'm gaining ground. Slowly the hits get much less damaging and I keep boosting....and boosting.... At 13% hull my shields come back online (thats a long time in a Conda). I keep boosting. The firing stops. I boost a couple more times, try my FSD - its still off-line, still no firing so I hit "Save and exit to Desktop". The 15-second count-down takes forever and towards the end I can hear the firing start again. Any second I'm expecting to hear the Conda explode.....and suddenly I can save... Phew - close call....."
As we can see here, the defendant merely testified that he was gaining ground, a cease of firing from the aggressor does not mandate the possibility of being out of range.
If such speculating were allowed, it's more likely that the aggressor believe his prey has no mean of escape considering the status of the victim's FSD and decided to make use of the communication panel.
Except that it's pretty much improbable considering the quantified data I'm providing:
FDL downgraded to extreme low speed has a boost of 370+ and a travel top speed of 275+
Conda upgraded to the extreme high speed has a boost of 280+ and a travel top speed of 210+
Pilot error is very much unlikely considering the FDL pilot has the ability to accurately destroy the FSD of the Conda.
However, since there is no testimony from the pilot of the FdL in question, we have no idea of the condition of the FdL at that time. It is not outwith the bounds of possibility that the FdL's condition was in a degraded state, seeing as it too was in the same Hazardous RES as the Anaconda and was - again presumably - engaging in Bounty Hunting and may have sustained damage to its systems. If, for example, the FdL's thrusters were in a degraded state, then that is one scenario in which the Anaconda might be able to outrun the FdL.
I propose that without further information, we have reached a stalemate.
