So last night I got tired of hanging around Lave looking for pirates. There was just no action to be had. Did a quick rares run, just for fun, really doing it to try and bait out a pirate, but had no luck. But before heading off to bed, I thought I would do some killing at a RES. So I'm in Leesti at the only RES on the starlit side of the planet.. after a while, two other commanders show up. One brand new player in a sidewinder... and an expert pilot (I think) in a cobra. They aren't together... so the 3 of us are just cruising around having fun flying through the rocks and protecting miners from AI pirates.... the usual.
After a half hour or so, after a bigger skirmish, I notice the new sidewinder player is now wanted. The poor guy accidentally shot one of the unwanted ships in the battle, and inadvertently purchased a fine and a bounty. So I started keeping an eye on the cobra player... and sure enough.. after 10 or 20 seconds, the cobra starts stalking him, and starts to shoot him. The little sidewinder pilot is running, and the cobra is going after the kill. It's obvious that the little new sidey player wasn't trying to attack me, or him, it was one of your typical accidental friendly fire incidences that we have all been complaining about, ad-nausium. The cobra player obviously saw this as a target of opportunity (no pun intended) to attack a player risk free.
Well, he forgot to take into account CMDR Holycow following right on his 6, no more than 200meters away in my trusty A rated clipper. As soon as I realized what he was doing.. I let him have it. Took only 10 or 15 seconds to melt his shields and get through his hull. He had now pealed away from the sidewinder, and was trying to manouver his way through the rocks and use the speed of his cobra to his advantage, to try and save his own butt... but my clipper does 440 m/s, so he wasn't getting away. BOOM... cobra pilot is dead, sidewinder pilot saved, and I now had a bounty on my head as well.
The sidey player thanked me, I advised him to be careful with that friendly fire in the future, and I suggested he go pay off his bounty asap, as I would be doing the same.
Would you have done the same? Did I make the right call? I don't like bullies picking on the new kids.
(EDIT:I was in leesti, not lave... i was going back and forth all night)
