//edit I was writing this before i saw your more recent posts. Dont want a flame war.
Eternal, man, that is a harsh response, and I find it pretty hard to take being made the focal point of your pretty obvious distaste for BHers. I don't think I deserve it. Ignorant? Well, it's a long time since I was called that by anyone. Not a word I'd throw around lightly, but maybe that's just where I'm from.
Here are the facts as far as I am aware:
Darkwing are listed as official but there is nothing on the status thread. I aint with them. Ive met one of them ONCE, and that was last night, and he got involved in a fight when invited by another hunter. I was juimped by OPG in sig 13. Ive hunted them in the past. Theres a 5 mil bounty on their heads. I enjoy fighting them. I usually lose. I was in a manta. The DW was in a cap ship. He got killed by an OPG and Benitez bomber. The only thing people complained about was the lag.
The SSO are in the status thread as official. Ive seen one online. I aint with them. Never had any contact with them.
The BHL application is dead as far as I know. They did a few contracts for us. They tried to bring in new recruits, even asked a guy to leave because he was abusing the capships.
The Ships with the [BH] tag in front I have encountered and wrote a pretty nasty diplomatic message to after a few run ins with them. http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17577
I have seen a load of other ships from time to time with BH- in front of their names. I have no contact with them. I refused to help one in a cruiser in New York when he squared off against smoq. Every time a BH capship shows up, all the valid targets run for it.
I have better things to do with my time playing this game than try to police the issue of capships to all and sundry. It might be enforceable if I had a faction as well subscribed as one of the more popular ones but that's not to say it's what everyone would want.
There is a register of Bounty Hunters set up by Robert Fitzgerald. We promote it as the place to register the credentials of all hunters. Many are in capships. you want me to write to all these poeople and ask them to clear off from the Houses?
The CORE is also unofficial, as far as I know. They, if I am correct, are modelled on the Guild Core, which is the well financed branch of the Guild at war with the Order. I have seen them on occasionally, and I am considering a set up where by members of my group would be promoted to the Core, but i have to actually talk to the Core about this. That might bring some cohesion to the Guild. Note that I am contemplating sending members to another faction.
I'm working on getting the S/D towards a request for official status, but I don't honestly think I will have the time to set up a faction that covers as much an area as the Guild. Plus people dont seem to want to join a BH faction. There are little benefits to being in one, and many disadvantages, if all you are interested in is stampeding around Sirius acting like Robocop.
We dont fire on people unless there is a bounty on them or they fire on us first.
As for the BCs in Omi 100. I said in my post that I wouldn't do something like that. That is my position on that.
I'd appreciate if you didn't use me as a whipping boy for your grievances against other players. It's unfair.
