Remember the title of the thread?
*What it takes to Kill a LH LF*
Now this is not the correct place to personalize the event with ICO. Yuri has good points in his reply and the thing is I have objected something from the beginning. Trying to hunt a light fighter in a capital ship. Note that this is a personal objection since there ain't an enforcement to prevent such an action.
I have always backed up individuals and small groups in Liberty who are willing to aid the common will for preserving the safety of Liberty Code of Law. The reason why Virus made this thread is I believe he wanted to reveal his own opinion about something, that is facing a horde of capital ships against their small group hurt the fun and ambition of them at all. Now, we can only comment here because I personally do not know the exact details of the event. What I can and try is to solely comment on the impression I recieve from this thread. No, this is not an ICO flamefest thread. The reason ICO's name were mentioned here is probably because the witnesses gave the people the impression to do so. Anyway, we have lots of individuals as AoM has asserted in her previous reply, who actually slightly lack the RP reason to operate in these big toys. Again we need to note these down as personal opinion. Having a Liberty IFF and a proper ID enables a person to fly these big ships. Only thing we could hope for is waiting people to get more familiar with how things proceed here and at least fulfill a decent RP background for their vessels.
Remember that, we are not talking about a PVP server. We need to see the RP from a person. People could have mistakes or small flaws in the beginning. This should not mean the right for other people to bash on them and discourage with everything they have in their hands just because they are slightly older than them in this community. But we also need to preserve the decency of Roleplay here and thats why the debates could take lots of threads and pages with lots of people commenting in with their own ideas.
In the Rheinland mercenary ban, I personally thought that they should have marked the problematic mercs as kos instead of inflicting a perma ban on the entire same kind. New York is much more problematic than New Berlin with nearly all kinds of criminals and the chaos triggered by the shadowy mercs. Now, one could say that what if the number of mercs in kos raise to more than you can handle with? Even if we have the willingness and determination to hound these corrupted pilots, there is still the possibility of facing such a risk. One could also say that, one does not have the right to limit one's movement in Sirius. This is debatable since we have some limitations for some IDs. And there is a very recent example about mercs, which is the Rheinland ban case. I can say that, if the number of mercs in our KOS have an uncontrolled raise, we could inflict a ban on mercs in NY.
Now, okay most of the people say BHs are lawful, friendly to house operations which I totally agree. That is what we have in their IDs and description so we should treat them as lawful. But one thing, we must seperate them from the concept of mercenary. If we catch a bounty hunter taking a contract offer from an outlaw affliation, then that BH would be marked as kos too. Simple as that.
So discussing the way how to cope with a LF has caused lots of issues to be disputed in a chain reaction. New York is already too loaded, and we have the LSF and SA active enough to protect Liberty. So am I hinting that I don't want other groups to intervene in our job? Not exactly. They should continue aiding us but without forgetting their boundaries.
EDIT: And a small addition. I think people with the BH IFF should be wearing only BH ID. Not the Mercenary ID. The mercenary ID is being used as a way of exploitation by some people when combined with a lawful IFF. Either give them a mercenary IFF or they should be working for another one. Maybe freelancer or something else. But I just HATE to see people with a lawful IFF or even worse without any IFF holding a mercenary ID and playing for both sides with sole PVP fun without any pinch of RP.
