Improve Presentation of Discovery's Rules

[Karlotta]

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1. You can now long distance hire players via PM.
"Hired ingame" is broad and can mean anything. Technically if your ID rules of engagement influences bounties, I can use an order ID player to long range bounty people all over the server for me to engage.

I added "farther than one system away" to 3.2 in order to prevent abuse while keeping traders hiring freelancers to remove pirates feasible.

2. No way to tell if someone indeed bountied you.
Ties in with the above. The current wording seems to deem it sufficient if the mercenary informs you that you are bountied. If there is no forum bounty, and the mercenary's employer does not need to declare that you are bountied, how would anyone be able to tell if its pvp abuse?

The spoiler for 3.2 says that the person who hired must still be online when the attack begins, so that what the hired player says is verifiable by the target.

3.Pirate and Miner IDs seem to gain bounty hunting rights as it seems that all characters can be hired.
For the sake of ID balance this is not the case currently

A useless and unrealistic restriction imo, which could also be written in the 2 IDs it concerns instead of the rules, and I think the restriction should be dropped for pirates, Miner ID removed, and Freelancer ID given the same mining bonus as Miner ID.

But for the sake of minimizing deviations from existing rules, I guess I'll add it.

4. BHG IDs are forced into registering on all boards.

Bounty boards can just say that all Bounty Hunters are automatically considered registered (as far as they show their ID when claiming). That also makes more sense in places like Kusari, where as far as I know BHG isnt wanted.

5. Defectors and other unorthodox rp characters are immune to bounties.
You have to be hostile to ALL targets even when they are following RP that might be detrimental to their parent faction. For example if an intelligence faction agent goes rogue their parent faction cannot bounty them in response. Likewise their contractors cannot claim on that person.

I added "unless they're enforcing Official Faction Rights" to 3.1, which seems the only case where it's legitimate.

6. Loss of ability to place anonymous, bounties.
Line about administrators posting on behalf of players is missing.

This rule seems to come from the era before everyone and their dog had alt accounts. I don't think I've ever seen anyone use this.

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