The Greebo Effect

Leodis

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Hi, just had an encounter with an AI (playing slo at the mo) scans me, declares that they want my cargo and makes an agressive move to brig guns to bear, so I shoot.

Now as I shot first I get the message I'm wanted etc, the local security turns up and I screw up as I had just changed the commands on the keyboard last night and forgot I had changed jump. I lose, no problem I have 113,000 in the bank, but no option to rebuy the Cobra?

So two questions, shouldn't the comms traffic be admissible as evidence :) and what's the rules on insurance? Does it only work in sme situations?
 

Seonid

Seonid
Known issue, the act of declaring piracy should be an offence, it's not currently so you have to wait for them to hit you with weapons.
 

Tornado

Tornado
Seonid said:
Known issue, the act of declaring piracy should be an offence, it's not currently so you have to wait for them to hit you with weapons.
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Problem is what constitutes declaring piracy?
Dose telling some one to" please drop their cargo" constitute declaring piracy or does there have to be a threat of violence?
What about scanning some one then saying " nice cargo you have there" does that constitute declaring piracy?
:S:S:S
 

MahdDogg

MahdDogg
If you're referring to Star Wars you meant Greedo.

Greebo is Nanny Ogg's cat in Terry Pretchett's Discworld Series.
 

Shorn

Shorn
Tornado said:
Problem is what constitutes declaring piracy?
Dose telling some one to" please drop their cargo" constitute declaring piracy or does there have to be a threat of violence?
What about scanning some one then saying " nice cargo you have there" does that constitute declaring piracy?
:S:S:S
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One of the newsletters had some information about this (can't remember which one - I'll see if I can find it!) - sounds like it's going to be a specific command to "declare piracy" which will have a lesser consequence than murder (when you just kill without a declaration).

Would imagine any other text based chat will not qualify as an official declaration - I'd like to see a notification in the same style as the "Hostile Scan Detected" so there is no ambiguity!

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Found it - newsletter 27 in the questions had a tiny bit;
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=0b43285619#Mostly Harmless
and the DDF archive has the following on communications;
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6371
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Rhaedas

Rhaedas
I think just stopping someone by interfering with their drive should be the trigger (unless your the authority in the system of course). Having a set canned comm to declare piracy seems too easy to avoid, what would be the benefits of that vs getting someone to shoot at you first by taunting and then killing and taking their cargo?

The insurance thing is a bug, I believe. I know I've seen one mentioned, been lucky enough to not have it happen to me.
 
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