I blew up a turret while a red was hacking it (to avoid it shooting at me) once and got removed from battle and banned for 24 hours. I thought that was the rules.

If this actually hurt you you take this game far too seriously, but we already know that don't we. If Dust were a good game your friend wouldn't have left it over one run in with us.

People are leaving this game and fresh blood isn't cycling in the game is dying and as awesome as it would be if we could take credit for it CCP is really to blame.

Dust is enjoyable because of the lawless insanity that it fosters, not in spite of it. If you want a game where blues are blue and reds are red, there are hundreds of other options out there. If you want a game where literally anyone can stab you in the back for any reason (or no reason at all) your options are pretty limited.

If you take a video game too seriously, you will have a bad time. If your friend can't handle this kind of gameplay, he was right to quit playing... the game is not for him. As small as Dust's playerbase is, people should play the games they enjoy, not the ones that frustrate them.

If you really want to have fun in Dust, get creative. Don't treat it as a shooter, treat it as a spy game. Infiltrate someone else's corp, spy on them, earn their trust. It's a challenge because you have to fool real people, who have every reason not to trust you... sometimes you win, and sometimes you'll lose. It's an amazing thing to stomp other players in proto gear, paid for by isk you stole from them.

If that doesn't sound like fun to you, follow your friends lead and find a new game. Find something fun for you.

Most of us here thrive on ruining peoples enjoyment - it's why we run in full squads of Proto in pub games...