I know there is some bad feelings about blanket bounties.

[Markus_Janus]

I have a question that I did not see in the vast amount of pages. If Rule 7.1 states

"7.1 All bounties must be posted on the forum. If you attack another player to claim a bounty and the bounty is not posted on the forum, you are open to a PvP abuse sanction.

Mercenaries, freelancers and bounty hunters may be hired on the spot in game to assist with a combat without a forum post. The other parties involved in the combat must be made aware of this."

How can this apply to pirates? Meaning are pirates with the Pirate ID given the right to collect bounties or perform bounty hunting? If so then why are they not added to this rule? I would think that the pirates themselves would be the ones that the bounty hunters and what not are hunting as they would have the bounties on their head.

I am new to the server but this is a question that I have not been able to find an answer to. Thank you in advance.

Edit: I see that they can "Can ally with unlawfuls, mercenaries, and freelancers" but it does not say in the ID that they have the right to fulfil lawful and unlawful bounties as the bounty hunter and freelancer and mercenaries states. I would say that if I was killed by a pirate and there was no other ship with the Id of one of the three around and he didnt RP this portion or if he said that it was due to the bounty then he would be in violation. True?

That is a very good question.
What it all comes down to is that you are what you are doing.
If a pirate is collecting bounties, if his ID says he can, then he is treated as a hunter in regards to the bounty rules.

The rules, while quite good, are written by a group of volunteers, so there will always be small areas that could be interpreted in different ways.
But anyone hunting is a hunter rule wise.

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Samura Omotai Zaibatsu.