Admin Notice: Updates, 20 July 2012

[fencore]

We're not here to debate the merits of players, but to discuss and understand what the changes to the bounty rules are. If you can't do anything put pick at another player, bite your tongue and walk the other way.

In regards to the concern about who's collecting what from where, I remind you that we've simply opened up the system to be more free for players. The process of bounty boards and bounty hunters is entirely player driven. What boards you register for and what boards decide to accept certain player registrations from are, aside from those which wouldn't make sense in the context of roleplay consistency, up to players. Refuse those you dont' want collecting a ton. Reduce your bounty payouts if you're concerned. Manage your own business. Wheel and deal among your allied factions and use whatever roleplay context to push someone toward or away from offering big bounty payouts and such.

Enforce roleplay consequences and take care of your business.

Concern about pirate IDs is unfounded. Such IDs will have to make a choice at every encounter, if that target has an applicable bounty, of whether or not they want to make a demand and engage in piracy or if they want to collect the bounty. Once one avenue has been initiated with a player, that path is set. Pirates choosing ti collect on contracts cannot extort their targets for credits, and players engaging in piracy, if their demands are met, cannot then engage their targets for a kill to also collect the bounty sum because their demands were met. Even then, unless you're given free engagement rights on someone, you've gotta engage in piracy first anyhow, and can only collect when they decline. And, y'know, excessive piracy demands in order to force a bounty claim situation is something we call "being a douchebag" and would be treated like any other unreasonable demands would.