Normal game mechanics huh? I used normal game mechanics to shoot him also. There are reasons, back in the day ships would turn on so called "friendlies" at any given time, especially being a pirate. I am happy that I was warned - thank you for the warning, there was no where posted (except for the forum, which a good chunk of players don't read) that these rules were put up, otherwise I would have thought twice about killing him and just crippled his ship to the point in which the ship he was trying to board would have killed him instead of myself.