First off, I agree to your first paragraph as well, but I'd like to take a closer at the following passage:
If i would be a new player i probably would think your just some merceneries for tttla
This is the main problem of this forum; most of the people that post here are known pk's and since the gang issues section is for issues, the majority of posts are made by those that just got killed or that just dont like a certain faction/certain people.
As a result, most of the posts on here a wrong in a way that they are only based on one point of view, on only half of the facts, on a misconception.
And in the end a lot of people are too naive and think that what is written here is the truth. Of course Michael139 is best informed about the current constellation of gangs and has all the insider knowledge one could get of tttla, crazy88, hawks and whatnot.
At least that's what a new player would think.
Yes, we were TTTLA minions, that was last year when the only people of crazy88 with pvp chars were leon and me, joining tttla to help them. Nowadays though it looks differntly, sometimes even the opposite. The spammers dont care though and keep spurting that bullshit form 6months back. But anyway, that wasnt even the point fo your statement, I know.
My position as an APK player is quite easy to sum up: I only shoot known enemies (enemies as in people that are confirmed to once have shot an ally) and people that piss me off. Granted, a lot of "innocent" people might fall in the second category but hey, this is the wasteland. If soeones standing in BA+minigun in the middle of the street you dont run up to him and a bluesuit and talk shit.
My way of the APk even goes that far that I leave people that are unknown to me the first shot when I meet them in reno. At one point I was standing in front of eldriges's with cmbtlj+plasma psitol and a guy with a polish sounding name, m60 and metal armor spawns. I still left him the first shot.
If you are not an idiot and not a known pk'er then you wont get shot, simple as that. The difference between apk and pk is just that for me.