Well there are no rules as meaning you kill somebody and you get banned. But ingame rules quite clearly prohibit killling, so better law enforcement and way stiffer financial punishment would be applicable.
Gankers vs ATR?
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If you want to criticize the current financial penalties I'd simply like to point out the mining changes came after the current C and P scheme.
Killing other CMDRs is not prohibited, which is easy enough to do if FD were so inclined, it is penalized for fluff reasons. If you feel the financial penalties gankers incur aren't stiff enough, you are more than welcome to make them eat rebuys. Hell, there are player groups that specialize in hunting gankers. Join one. You can make friends and dictate how you think things ought to be, two birds with one stone!
You can have either a dynamic Galaxy dictated by player choices (you make the gankers pay) or you can have a narrated experience catered to you (the devs make the gankers pay for you). You can't have both.
Don't confuse in game consequences for rules. You can get punished for killing (a consequence) but there is no hard or fast rule that says don't do it.
Well I have said it already multiple times, make insurance company claim every credit they paid towards pilots one criminally destroyed. You'll run pretty big bill fast. Pay some 900 million say for every a-rated Conda and so on and it would bankcrupt even active miner quite fast. And lay claim against every asset. Not just against ship you just were flying and got destroyed.
It'd be better to create an interesting and fun gameplay feedback loop around criminal behavior than just punishing gankers cause they're bad.
Real life insurance company would do just that.
Real life insurance companies would deny people rebuy insurance if they neglect basic safety measures and hand in one rebuy after another.
On other hand one could make little distinction of insurance coverage, meaning lower the sec rating of system where one got destroyed lower the coverage. Say current payout in high sec, lower one in med sec, even lower in low sec, no or very little in anarchies.
And well add also nasty chance of meeting very heavily armed npc bounty hunters from Bank of Zaonce(which underwrites Pilots federations insurance policies).
And so the cycle begins anew.
Crime and punishment are for gankers, not meeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Whole point is to drive certain PVP activities to places with little or no law enforcement. It would make whole universe more believable. And for those who do not take a hint, eventually it is starter Sidewinder....
Use a carrot not a stick.
If we are using real world analogies:
Think of the ganker as a tree and you driving towards it.
Do you drive into it and blame the tree for being there, or do you steer around it?
Do you claim on insurance "the tree did not move therefore I should get a new car"?
Big stick works as fine.
It's not about what works, is it? It's about what causes trouble to a style of play you personally dislike.
Every city on Earth with law enforcement still has murder. Not sure how you call murder happening being unbelievable. Of course, you don't want the ED universe to be made more "believable". You want it made to conform with your opinion of what it should be.
Luckily for you, it can! It's called Mobius. I'm genuinely not being a jerk, it is right up your alley. Give it a whirl and enjoy the MurderHobo free PvE multiplayer.
Yeah, the problem is you want other players to be forced to play your way, despite there being options to play your way already, and no other options for the players whose gameplay style you dislike. Quite totalitarian, really.
Of course, we all know the real issue is you have contempt towards gankers combined with a lack of competence/courage to face them, so you want daddy to beat them up for you. If that wasn't the case, you'd be running around happily in Mobius or Solo.
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I used to do insurance claims. Picture white out conditions, several inches of fresh snow on the road, guy wipes out and totals his car.
"It wasn't my fault. I was driving the speed limit."
The speed limit? 65 MPH.
It'll be as hilarious in Elite as it was in real life. So, there's that!