Bounty Hunters Gone Wild

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Okay topic moved, stay flame free or I'll lock it.

Pirates only get sanctioned for being white with the law, so if these folks we're farming NPC's and not getting shot at, impossible, there's something we could do.

If I may Baltar (and Del), I think Del actually misunderstood what you said in your first post.
AND there was more important information in your 2nd post as well, which you left out of the first.

He didn't deliberately dismiss what you said. Just said something on a different track which does have
relevance to the larger issue, but not specifically to the one you brought up here regarding BH.

Can I recap? Correct me if I'm wrong, mistaken or left anything out.

1. Your character (in this issue) is a pirate. You operate out of Sigma 13 - Yanagi.
2. You undocked or came home (Yanagi) to find BH camping and killing Junkers.
3. The BH told you that the Yanagi Junkers had hired them. Yet they were camping Yanagi killing Junkers.
4. They attacked you? (I think the ship types doesnt actually matter, fighter or capship - it's irrelevant. Lets look at the behaviour of the BHs.)
5. They also had an Outcast around. Do you know if they were in group?

Lets also look at how your reports and "complaints" can have more effectiveness. What is it that could help?
Do you have screenies? Is it the way you are wording something? Can you be clearer in your wording?
Are they being sent to the right people? (For example, can a formal INRP complaint to the Bounty Hunter
Guild help with this situation? After all, they are responsible for the Bounty Hunters.)

Do Forum complaints (like this one) help anything?

Do you want BH nerfed? Or do you want better RP from BH?
How can these things be improved? Could DW or BHG do something about the OoRP BH?
I suspect the troublesome BHs are either not part of the BHG faction, or they are not aware of
what they are doing.

I said that stuff about Junkers, because people think they are Criminals, and shouldnt have anything to do
with BH. But I counter that with Junkers are Semi-Legal, and so BH have just as much possibilty of docking
on Junker bases. But they need to remember that Junkers DO deal with Criminals daily and it is a hostile
environment - I don't mean rep wise - to enter. I mean literally, if they dock on a Junker base
(which I maintain that they can do) then they better make sure that the criminals and pirates ON the base
wont take them out - i.e. display of force and intimidation tactics.

But this is something that has to be left up to the individual BH because that mechanic isnt possible ingame.

What I was saying is that as a Junker, I am willing to deal with BH and police and crims. I wouldnt let the
other hand know what I'm doing. No one unlawful would see me dealing with a BH, and no one lawful would
see me dealing with Outcasts/Rogues/Corsairs. I would make sure there is no neural net trail either.
Nothing illegal can be traced back to me. Hence I would be seen as "lawful and just a scrap dealer or debris
field worker" by the appropriate people. And because of that I could quite easily gain contacts with Bounty
Hunters. Yes I could use Mercs but those are harder to trust to get the job done. So I would make sure that
the BH think of me favorably, so that I can use their services.

Did you ask them ingame what they were doing in PM? Could they have been fixing their green rep so that
it is red? Remember that most OoRP BH would attack any unlawful, without having a bounty. Coupled with
the misunderstand that Junkers are unlawful, can you see how easily BH mistakenly do things?

That's why I brought Junkers up, not because anyone was a Junker player, but because all of this happened
around a Junker base. That being said, in RP, the Junker base would've told the BH to stop firing in their 5K range.

(I think I just convinced myself that BH shouldn't be around Junker bases, despite what I was saying before):D

Tink: I think I am guilty of trying to redefine Junkers. I'll try to curb that.

Recon: Baltar, I agree with you on the fact that there should be one set of rules for everyone, but that is impossiable. Lawfuls and unlawfuls are very different so no one set of rules can work for both. And all those times where you have seen bounty hunters near rogue/dragon/hacker bases, you should have reported them. But a hunter outside of a junker base is a different story because, like i tried to say before, junkers aren't really unlawful. They are mixed.

Then maybe it's time we brought out specific rules for unlawful and lawful types? Stating those specific differences? And splitting the PVP / RP rules further so that it's more clear?

I think new people need examples what what is bad RP and behavior rather than leaving open to interpretation. Lets face it, rules are made for our protection, and if they are written the right way, then it leaves it open for creative and good RP, while being clear about what is NOT allowed (base camping to farm NPC's for example.)

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