Mercenary - RP rules.

[Tenacity]

I dont know if it was one of the players posting here, but just today I was patrolling omicron minor and saw a player in a bounty hunter orca gunboat, with a bounty hunter tag (but mercenary ID) undocking from toledo.

Not a good thing to get caught doing. Frankly, I dont care if your ID claims you're nuetral - in this situation the target, regardless of ID, was -clearly- allied with an opposing faction.

You cant just 'work for everyone'. Every character will have his or her enemies, even mercs (especially mercs! nobody likes mercs).

If I see that you're using a ship and IFF tag from an opposing faction, that means you're on good terms with that faction (they trust you enough to sell you one of their ships), and that makes you a hostile target regardless of your ID. If you want to call me "OORP!" for attacking or being hostile/aggressive towards someone in that kind of situation, go ahead - the fact still stands that, as far as my character is concerned, you're working for the enemy.

Now, in this situation I did not open fire but made it very clear, in a very hostile tone, in system chat that he was not welcome in omicron minor using that IFF and ship. In the end I helped him get an IMG gunship and told him how to change his faction tag or drop it entirely so that he could play a more 'nuetral' merc - but he's still going to have enemies, just like everyone else.

If you show up in order space in a bounty hunter ship or with a bounty hunter tag, expect to get shot. Even if you're trying to play the "I've got a nuetral ID!!!" game, you're going to get shot. You've got two or more signs telling other players that you're working for a specific faction whether or not your ID is of similar description.



EDIT:

It's actually the guy who posted right before me that this encounter happend with =P


and to respond to him: That is -not- how the conversation went. I've got screenshots if I need to show them.

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