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Faction hits... don't hit!

May 10, 2004 MonkRX link
I killed Ciuciu (itani) who was Admired by NT. As usual, the first shot I hit on the Itani gave me a "Warning blah blah is under the protection of NT, blah blah".

My Faction rating was -455, dislike, before the attack, and after the death of the Admired Itani. This took place in s6.

In s6 again, I decided to engage another NT Pilot. I killed him/her, and again I took no faction hit.


Is this suppose to happen?
May 10, 2004 a1k0n link
Heh. Waylon just fixed that here.. we'll deploy the changes later.
May 10, 2004 Ciuciu link
Well.. i just make some feedback to make sure you know about all:

Phoenix killed me today in s11 (i was +450 there) for about 10-20 times, no orion hit

I and SF killed each other 4 times in s11 no orion penalty occured on each side (never the less i gain very little of itani standing)

Killing defbots in homesectors give a warrning, but nothing really happens (i didn't take penalty). ALthough someobdy who attacked itani bot went from about 0 to -980.

So.. when will update occur ? :)
May 10, 2004 Arolte link
Yeah... I was going to say something but I wasn't sure whether it was just me or what. Still, I think the faction system can be a little less dramatic (see "Screwed? Devs look at this!" thread) in the way they punish people. Not in a way that'll make it necessarily easy for the killer to get away with bad stuff. Just something that'll give them a second chance through a lot of hard work.
May 10, 2004 Spider link
I was provoked into killing Ciuciu while I was trying out the increase / max rating thing (and thereby I might have been exploiting this bug inadvertedly) And didn't get a fraction hit either..


Now I wonder. Are you supposed to get a fraction hit from killing defbots or not?
May 11, 2004 Spider link
We just did some more testing: (I'm still +999)

spolu created a new itani character killed me in s13:
s/he went from -600 to -799 in Serco standing.

Bastet killed me in 13:
s/he went from +300 to -154 in Serco rating

so pvp really does seem to get a fraction hit.



Please, devs/guide, I'd appreciate it if you gave Bastet a bump upwards in the Serco rating. The current system dissuades testing the fraction code for how it works and feels. :-)