Where is the line drawn in legalities inside the Verse when it comes to theft vs reclaiming? Will this depend on when players eject?asked by OnslaughtDelete
TL;DRChris Roberts doesn't know yet and says the rules aren't fleshed out, but suggests that shooting someone until they eject, or being aligned with those who did, would count as stealing, otherwise potentially reclamation.
I don't know, that's a good question. In terms of whether you're marked to being in a stolen ship as opposed to someone who might have just found a ship and reclaimed it... I don't know! I think we'll try to handle it is, say if you were shooting them until they ejected, that would count as stealing the ship. If you were aligned to a group that shot the ship, that'd be stealing as well, but if you weren't witness to the events leading to it being left there, and you're not aligned with a party that was involved, potentially that would be counted as a reclamation. It depends I guess, there will be lots of edge cases. We haven't fleshed out the various rules for this one yet, but rest assured we'll try to make it fair. We're of course constantly tweaking things in AC now, and that sort of thing won't stop any time soon.