I've watched several streams from players of CODE and SDC the last few days. I've watched them operate around Hutton Orbital.
Here is what I have seen them doing:
* Interdicted players, in a wing, so it's a 4-on-1 battle
* No warnings or demands sent to the player, sometimes a condescending egotistical message
* The player is then attacked by 4 members of CODE or SDC, members of whom are interchangeable
* No cargo is collected
* Players being killed are often not wanted or have a bounty or often not even have weapons
* If the player escapes into supercruise, he is chased down and the whole situation starts all over again. The player is then reported for "hacking"if they switch to solo mode or open (an attempt to complain about combat logging)
* If a CODE or SDC member is getting beaten, they run away.
This is not pirate roleplaying. It is griefing. There is no other description.
Legitimate pirate roleplaying in Elite Dangerous involves asking for cargo, and if given, leaving the player alone. It involves scanning to see what cargo the player has (before asking for cargo).
CODE and SDC can justify it all they want, but they are bullies, and not nice people who do not play fair. They have been caught cheating (using a hacked client) and have been reported to Frontier.
I play in Solo mode or a private group precisely because of players like these. I am not scared of them, but I am not letting them spoil my game. Their loss, not mine.
I was not present at the operation. But I would like to address a few points.
*Interdict players in a wing is to secure effectiveness and fear factor
*From what I am aware and saw, there were repeated warning in super cruise, after interdiction and at the station.
*Code and SDC are not interchangeable, the fundamental ideologies of the two groups are different.
*We are blockading, not pirating.
*Because they don't listen or read our warnings. We had a Cobra where we messaged him directly three times in super cruise, then interdict him, warn him again, he boosts and gets his drives taken out, then we message him a final time, then he gets blown up. No responses from him whatsoever, but surely, seconds after, we found him posting on reddit saying that we are grieving. I cannot name and shame here, unfortunately.
*So... we are suppose to sit there and get blown up by opposition, why?
This isn't a piracy operation, this is a blockade operation carried out by pirates.
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Indeed.
And we reserve the right to point at it and laugh if it's as ridiculous as the justifications you posted for intervening in the CG
Surely you do, hence why I'm telling everyone to interpret it as they will.
