Question along similar lines (this really belongs in the Questions to the Officers area imho) ..
Say you're just starting on Infinity. You are running toward a hog (there are lots of hogs) and you see an opponent jump into the gunner seat on the hog that has no driver, and spin in your direction. Now freezeframe the scene. According to BFM rules, as I understand them, you are not allowed to nade that hog because there are other hogs present, and your opponent is not allowed to fire at you without a driver. However, you do not know who your opponent is, and since he's climbed into the gunner seat first, it is safe to assume (in the panicked scramble those first few moments of the map) that he is not a BFM or has a full understanding of the way we race on BFM servers. So ultimately you don't know if he's about to fire on you or not.
Now .. usually when I see an opponent claim a hog, in either seat, I move on to the next hog. However what invariably happens is, the opponent starts firing on me anyway, and I am at a disadvantage because a) I've let him live in the first place and b) I've abandoned the idea of claiming that hog for myself and have turned away from him.
So, if I see an opponent do this, am I in my rights to toss a nade at him in preventative self-defense, or is that considered just adding to the nadefest? As Nrvend points out, "the second a gunner gets on that hog he becomes fair game... the racer has just made himself an unnecessary target" but does that give me the right--according to the rules--to attack him? Or do I have to wait for him to fire at me first?
- frost