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Revenge Periods

So, whilst quietly minding your own business (or to put it another way you were shooting at anything that moved), you actually hit the other ship. Now you might have been lucky and destroyed it completely, or perhaps it was only "a few scratches", either way what happens now?

Well, you are a marked pilot for the next 7 days (168 ticks). They can now shoot at you regardless of any score limitations or being on the MW or not, but only for those 7 days. After that you are safe again, providing you steer clear of that trigger

If you were attacked (and hit) by two or more players, you now have revenge periods against all of those players. Likewise if you have attacked multiple targets, say several MW, at the same time, they all now have 7 days of revenge periods against you. Space is littered with the fragmented remains of the ships whose pilots forgot about this...

Note: Normal laws remain in effect during revenge periods, so if you can't legally attack your revenger normally, you will still gain criminal ratings under revenge periods

Note: You can be in multiple revenge periods at any one time, with different players.

Note: Automatic return fire does not (AFAIK) create a Revenge period.

Note: Revenge periods only apply to other players not Police, NPC or Aliens