Are recons allowed?

[jngy slate]

I want someone to get in a ship like x or spider as recon and go around telling me where people are, keeping me updated. So it's not spec hunting. I spoke to a staff and they said even this kind of hunting isn't allowed. But I find it hard to believe because people hunt lts all the time.

[Dreamwin]

I dont see why that would be illegal. It's just teamwork.

[Morh]

Rofl how can that be illegal? Silly staff.

[Maverick]

Who said that's illegal? It certainly is not.


It's silly to make spechunting illegal at all, but ok, those are the rules.

[CaptainPoopface]

People who are playing and giving each other the locations of other players in game isn't so bad. They have to fly their ship around to do it, with all the limitations that imposes - ship speed, risk of death, etc. LTs are easy to identify on radar, tend to go to the same places on the map, and everyone who is not the LT has a vested interest in bringing it down. I see nothing wrong with cooperating to fight it, including telling each other when and where you see it, as long as you're in the game and killable.

But spec hunting someone can be an unfair form of harassment and is illegal for good reason.

[Xog]

seriously? its illegal?

If you were, literally, flying in outer space, and your wingman called out "[Enemy Name] at [Coordinates]" over the frequency you were talking through, that'd be general protocol? I don't understand how it's illegal just cuz it's in a game? Lol.

[Maverick]

There are always two sides to a story:

  Maverick> ?messages
[Jul 26 17:48] *************: Ok. About this thread - 
http://forums.trenchwars.org/showthread.php?t=37526 - I'm the staffer in 
question, but he was asking me to spec hunt some people for him and pm him the 
coords, not just fly around in a weasel.

If someone in spec is spechunting and telling someone where a player is, this can be considered illegal. The one in spec will be receiving the warning / punishment .

[jngy slate]

At first I did ask the staffer to spec hunt. They said it was illegal but then I asked if even hunting in a ship is illegal and they said yes, specially for a staffer. I think the staffer just didn't wanna help me and didn't wanna tell me.

[ÆNIMA]

I could see something generally wrong if you have someone on their freq 'spying' and giving out their location. But it's war, right? Why do we even have rules at all?

[PH]

I think the staffer just didn't wanna help me

props to that staffer

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[H.M.S. Stargazer]

Is it sad I remember that phrase from over 12 years ago :/

[Nockm]

Spechunting is illegal in pub.

But totally legal in league play.

HMMMMM

[Xog]

Nockm's words of wisdom.

Personally I think it should be legal!

Let's put on our makebelieve rtard helmets again, and pretend we're in outsidespace shooting aliems. You have starcommand with scanners, waaaay far away from you, detecting enemy ships and telling you were to go.

^ SPECTATOR.

[JabJabJab]

Honestly, I dont see people complaining about spec hunting, only the staffers noting the player doing so to stop because it is illegal. I see no reason for the rule to exist.