Everyone wins.. and loses.. engd result.. stalemate!
Let me guess - you heard that from pirates? They always talk such shit.
Answer: NO. Just common sense, even if it would bannable action - you always can lost connection, or pirates can use exploit against you, which cause you disconnect - and there is no possibility to prove that you logged out intentionally.
Actually I find the whole pirte trash talk thing rather amusing since it was the players who helped put them out of business anyway..
want to know how?
1. We now have a universal auction, you don't need to carry Lootables through space.. just put them up on auction and then buy them back and pay the transport fee of 2-6 ped to get them back..
2. is Logging off bannable? It's about as bannable as a pirate who uses the "Map open/close speed hack/exploit that exists in game.. I mean pirates use the map exploit a lot and you don't see them gettnig removed from game.. (Yet a simple player asked way back in Fefruary 2013 if the logging off on a mother ship was an exploit or not.. it's not an exploit as MA ruled it as such..) So maybe this year MA might do two things to make it more intereesting..
a. They will remove the "Map Speed exploit" factor in game thus having pirates to pay more attention to their surrioundings and not relying on a cheat to get an economica advantage..
and
b. conversely the Loggig off function will be removed.. but then also the ship guest lists will be increaste to the full 500 man compliment.
The end result is.. thanks to players complaining and talking trash about all of this, we can all ee where this is going to end up.. where no one really wins and everyone loses ..(And the prirates? They've already lost.. sad to say... Only one whowins in that argument is MA because.
1a. Because of the first part, and the removal of the map speed exploit pirates will have to use their alertness (what alertness/ they slleep half the time!) to catch aplayer off guard.. and
Thus it'll take more ammo and fuel to defeat a potential victim..
and
2a. Because the log off will be removed the end result is that people will in turn start to use the mother ships only togo from planet to planet and will sell their items on the auction and they could in theory buy them back at the other end and pay a 2 to 6 ped transport fee..
So yeah.. MA wins in this case, and everoyone complains..
(Gottta love it!)
oh well, there goes the universe! 
Benjamin Ben Coyote (Lance Corporal IFN Military)
a.k.a. "The Blind SNiper"
