I know there is some bad feelings about blanket bounties.

[Ceoran]

The current bounty doesn't even allow people to do that. Not like that's a reality because of ingame mechanics anyway.

if the current prices would allow this to happen, we could easily exclude the relevant lanes. Since they don't I'm admittedly to lazy to go that much into details. Especially since it would only result in further paperwork for the claims since they would need to proof the exact position of the encounter and not just the system.

Can any of the Samura leadership give me screenshots of bar rumors about Samura bountying non Kusari ships? I thought Samura's shady side came from using their political muscle to get extra tariffs levied on foreign shipping, making them drop cargo off at Osaka/Tsushima, and stuff like that, not straight up killing people.

I wouldn't put it past Samura to get the Hogosha/Farmers to take out a single problematic person, but corporations worth of people? Not likely.

We won't find anything that exactly states bounties. All you will find is that the Hogosha and Farmers are doing the dirty work for Samura against the competition. It's a pretty wide web of rumours including all involved factions. I'll see if I got the time to look up a few. Knowing the rumours and knowing who stated them are two different things though.
Also, I'd like to point out again that the purpose of that bounty is not to literally kill the competition, but have the Farmers and Hogosha cutting into their profits. The cargo usually should end up in Kusari storages by the hands of the Farmers and Hogosha anyways.

I'm requesting clarification on this point. We're competition because we take the goods you produce to other places where they sell better? Very confusing.

Unlike the other houses Kusari has no seperate corporation dedicated to shipping, instead Samura fills the major part (if not all) of that position. Hence you are competing with us in the shipping sector.
Mind that Samura is very traditional and prefers having a monopoly over possibly economical more efficient outsourcing.

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