I know there is some bad feelings about blanket bounties.

[Ceoran]

Sometimes it's really embarrassing to be a part of this mudfighting childish community and their pity desires for personal advantages as a player over actual roleplay. Janus opened the topic on his own to put the matter open for discussion, yet he gets flamed for it and people try to order him to take it back.

As a result, and as residing Samura faction leader, I hereby request anyone incapable of keeping a civil tone to stay out of the discussion. Furthermore I request the same from anyone encouraging the breach of rules (roleplay or server-wise), like this example:

I would oorply encourage every player to register, then sell the information to the bountied groups... so that Samura can be whacked afterwords by the highest bounty in FL! =)

As well as anyone who has a known personal grudge against Kusari in general or Samura in particular, like certain members of the junker playerbase do.
I'm currently busy with writing exams and don't have hours of free-time to crawl through irrelevant posts.




Now for some of the appropriate responses:

Strange though - that you have Daumann on that list - arent you guys doing business with them to terraform Planet Holstein?

Meh, maybe that is part of the strategy - deal with Daumann, but kill them if they come to Kusari?

This is in fact what certain rumours are suggesting. However, it is being discussed to drop factions we have standing deals with from the list. By it is being discussed I wish to express that this might take a while since my priorities currently are with my university exams.

On the other hand, why OSC? I didnt know samura transported passengers?

Valid point, but more because of the Hawaii being frequently visited by the Hogosha and Corsairs for their Artifact deals. Will be discussed.

TBH, upon further consideration, it's not really like anything new is happening. The parties hired already do their darnedest to kill and pirate their targets, now they just get extra for a straight kill.

Thank you. Furthermore I'd like to remind people that there have been periods where basically all factions in Sirius had a standing bounty upon them, yet people seemingly only complain if those bounties all originate from one factions.

I doubt Samura traders would <strike>Golden C.</strike> Shinobi mercenaries on them every time they trade and being destroyed. Now imagine such hunt on whole Sirius but very few factions.

In fact that's exactly what started going on by the time the GMG placed their bounty on us, along with the one the Blood Dragons have going.
Having a 1 million bounty contrary to the average 2 million piracy demand however does not seem to me like encouraging massive bounty-hunting.
Furthermore, traders are to be let free after having fulfilled a demand and I was under the impression this also covers bounties.

What did EFL and IDF do to you? (and why not GMS?)

Maybe we are just not too fond of one-sided deals like letting them into Kusari while not being allowed into Gallia ourselves. Or not very fond of gallic shippers running ore to Rheinland which technically should be our job. IDF is open for debate about being excluded for the previously agreed items.

Gooooooooooooood morning discovery. What a brilliant thread, and what an astonishing bounty board.

I'd regard it as totally ridiculous. So here's what someone is going to do...

- Make a hogosha character
- Object to the rather indiscriminate manner targets have been assigned
- Yell to the Ku govt.
- Yell to the other governments
- Provide evidence of this bounty board's existance to those people.
- Liberty and Rheinland will object to Samura ordering the killing of Rhein/Lib citizens.
- Liberty and Rheinland will prevent Samura ships entering Liberty and Rheinland
- The Kusari government shut the whole thing down, knowing that Samura is acting in a criminal manner, the government caving in to the international pressure, which is far more damaging to Kusari's economy than anything else.

The end.
I fully expect someone has quoted that already, but I'll quote it again.

But uh, nice joke with the bounty board guys. Independant traders... I mean, wow... Seriously, don't carry on with this. Very very silly idea that will eventually land Samura in the proverbial poop be it in RP or out of it.

Edit: Blanket bounties are not a problem. This issue here is this is not thought through. This bounty board is going to cause multiple houses to turn against Kusari. That's not wise, and will be unpopular (for obvious reasons) with the Kusari government.

This discussion is here for a reason, however, I'd disagree with calling actually following vanilla RP and playing the more shady sides of a corporation a "silly idea". And if the described scenario would take place, I would like to know how this would be tolerable practice considering the waste amount of illegal stuff the IND is into yet still being allowed to trade with all houses? Why would those of us with the vanilla lore to do it be worth less than an "elite-faction"?

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