Fined for defending myself

[Zelator]

My first journey into anarchy territory resulted in some nice fights. Then, I was busy finishing off a Sidewinder that had attacked me when a authority vehicle (A.V.) intervened and got in the way of my shots. They fined me for shooting them when it was clearly the A.V. that caused the incident. I then felt compelled to destroy the offending A.V. for interfering - resulting in a murder charge. A slippery slope.

My point in this is that I was not in trouble and did not need assistance in defending myself. I had not asked for help and didn't expect any in an anarchy system. So, why was I 'helped'? Surely there must be some protocol that says something like: An Authority should ask if assistance is needed before opening fire. It is a waste of resources and an unnecessary risk/expense for an authority to 'help' a ship that was not in trouble and having little difficulty taking out a pirate. If my hull was at 20% help may have been appreciated, if I was asked - my hull was at 98%

It was shooting my mark and it would have stolen my kill! The A.V. had no manners and died for its rudeness.

 

[sibbers]

Maybe having a game mechanic which allows you to 'give up' by putting your distress beacon on in an altercation should see you with a lighter sentence than death (and perhaps the occasional opportunity for a bribe where you are let go on the spot)...

In terms of accidentally shooting a cop. Can you imagine lenience in any situation for that?

 

[bttlsgtmajor]

2 things.

First: If you're in an Anarchy where's the A.V. coming from? There is no A.V.'s in an anarchy system... that's the point... it's an anarchy.

Secondly, if you go to the right panel and I think it's under the functions tab near the bottom by the self-destruct there's two options, one for reporting crimes and another for reporting crimes against me. If you turn both of these options off you won't report the crimes so there won't be any A.V.s showing up to help out. For instance if you're in federal space and drop into to Nav Beacon and have those options OFF security will never show up if you get attacked. If you have those options ON, however, security will show up (all-be-it it may be a bit as they have to travel). Just a heads up on this mechanic.

 

[Zelator]

Sibbers - you have point there about shooting cops! Bribing the cops is a dodgy one - they take the bribe and then charge you with trying to bribe them! lol

Cmdr Heian - Tangent - Off the top of my head I cant think of any reason to self destruct . . maybe if the ship had been boarded.

Thanks for the tip. Will play around with switching off the reporting of crimes. Good mechanic to know about!

Wonder what the A.V. was doing in the anarchy system?