Todd Papy · Live Game Director, Star Citizen

So kind of the same way it did before, which is if you have kind of a prolonged initiative or initiation with somebody. So if you are on the attacker front, then basically if you're shooting first and you're dealing kind of the most damage threshold, then you are viewed as the attacker. And it really depends on when it comes in. So if you're doing the most damage up front, then basically you are viewed as the attacker. And then at that point, the person can retaliate in self-defense.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

I asked Luke Pressley for some information specifically about this question, and he sent me a text block of code. It works like this. And I must confess to not understanding most of it. But it was nice to at least see that there's a calculus involved here. And whether it's always going to be correct or whether it always gets it right, that's something we can continue to balance and tweak over time.