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Serious question,

Frontier really want to give us the sensation of Total War and the Bubble is under imminent danger, all 3 major powers sending FBO (forward base of operations) ships stuffed with anything you might need for war, dedicated NPC AX pilots that I haven't seen before, whole systems are abandoned and burning. The community supposed to hold back the advance and rally together to stop the Nazgul, etc. They doing it as best as they can and for those who like the game it adds a good and needed flavor and refreshment from the regular and tedious grind.

And then among all this mess and unique feeling you have the **** gankers that are lurking next to rescue ships and in rescue systems. They know that they can't fly to attacked systems as their super ships will worth nothing there, so they lurk on ships that are equipped with AX weapons that are not really effective against human players/gankers, lots of ships flying to those systems are after harsh fights with damaged ships and cant really fight back effectively even if they have the skills or the ships to do so. So for the gankers it is a paradise, prey that cant fight back.

Yesterday I was interdicted and shoot down in Beluga 1.5 LS from one of the FBO, I was carrying only AX weapons and I think 160ish refuges.

I don't care about gankers in general, it is what it is, part of the game, sometimes i pay my rebuy, some times I run away, and sometimes I make them retreat. But in an atmosphere of Total War, this act of shooting down a refugee ship is called by our modern standards a War Crime, nothing short of that. It is not a piracy it is a War Crime.

Historically, citizens that were doing criminal activities during major wars were severely punished, much stronger that in a peace time.

So if Frontier is so into this Total War setting, war criminals should be treated by the Superpowers that exist in the game as War Criminals. Superpowers are putting all that they can besides branding refugees killers as War criminals.

I can't find much logic in this. Why Frontier are not developing a mechanics for branding certain activity as some kind of War Crime?

I can think of numerous ways of implementing this on players that will do illegal activities in a certain designated area.

The gankers will be able to go and gank in Deciat and enjoy bugging those haulers looking for 1st engineering for the FSD What do you think about my idea? Hopefully The community will agree with my approach and be able to spread the idea to wider player base.