Bounty Hunting & 4.5/4.6 Rule Changes

[Ramke]

This might be a silly question but it crossed my mind nonetheless:

4.5 - All IDs may:

• Claim bounties within their Zone of Influence.
  

So as per this, I'm assuming the implication is that you can't claim bounties outside of your Zone of Influence?

Does that mean if you were to assist someone out of ZoI (ie in a convoy), and you scored a kill on a pirate, are you not able to claim that as a bounty?

For IDs that have lines which permit them to shoot things outside of ZoI, are they able to claim bounties for those kills?

Cool changes otherwise,

All IDs can claim bounties within ZoI, but not outside, unless stated otherwise.

For example, Liberty Navy won't be able to claim bounties in Kusari (unless they invade and get ZoI extentions - one can hope), but Unione Corse may claim bounties anywhere as they are allowed to do so as per ID rules.

This does mean that you technically shouldn't be escorting players that do not share the same IFF outside of ZoI, unless the ID allows you to escort them out of it (and thus get paid). However, if you're defending ships of the same affiliation (convoy), you may still get paid by the player for shooting them as this doesn't technically count as "pursuing a bounty" in terms of engagement, but rather defending a ship of the same affiliation.

Bear in mind, this is mostly in relation to engagement rules - players are free to spend and give their money as they wish.

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