Just a Short question

[Ursus]

I've always considered that if it doesn't specifically say NO YOU CAN'T, then YES YOU CAN.

Near as I can tell, that's only for activities that don't involve engagement, while activities that use engagment require explicit permission.

For example, "can escort" requires the escort to engage hostiles on behalf of the hiring ship. Since "can escort" requires being able to engage, then it falls under the scope of actions that must be explicitly permitted. There are also some IDs that would prohibit engaging hostiles on behalf of another ship (such as a Zoner ID), and they cant be escorts because of that too.

Applying that same principle here, pirate ID has requirements that must be met before engagement is allowed. Bounty is simply a permit to engage. The ID restrictions contradict the bounty, therefore the ID wins. Pirate can pirate the target, and engage him if he doesn't pay, but cannot kill the target for the sake of killing him, cannot set extraordinary demand in an attempt to moot the demand, etc. So two reasons why a pirate cant claim bounties, one is its not explicitly allowed form of engagement, other is that the ID has demands that must be satisifed

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