Okay, when I accept a mission and some moron comes out of nowhere and PKs me... why do I still have to abort the mission? It should be fairly obvious at that point (being dead and all) that the mission failed.

Seems like a bug to me.

It's not a bug. The mission system is incomplete and is still under revision. Now, go ahead and return the favor by killing them back. Mission accomplished!

People like yourself intentionally go around PKing people in hopes that they'll kill you back, locking them out of the station. The same happened to you, but it was "a bug"

Anyone smell smoke?

Smoke? I don't smoke...

Heh, just thought of an anti-flame banner "Smoke Outside"

Thats does sound dumb, I assumed it automagically aborted the mission for the person I just killed ;-)

There's always a chance that you'd be able to recover your cargo. That's why it doesn't auto-abort it. I can see where he's coming from about wanting that feature though. Still, it isn't a bug.

Alienb... SHHH SHAME on you! You KNOW you shouldn't bring in either A) logic or B) the past into these discussions! LMAO

Not quite, but close.
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