Bounty Hunters Gone Wild

[Baltar]

Easy dude your comeing unglued. We seem to agree something must be done but not on what. by defineing our collective stance by ironing or recognizeing our differences we will get our collective stance.

From there we better figure whats going to work best. Right now if we gave you the magic wand, we would get a knee jerk reaction which would not benefit everyone.

Maybe pirates need a buff to match lawful might. I have been advocateing that pirates should have more freedoms as Lawfuls have more now. I really dont like the idea of nerfing anyone but buffing the pirates I'm all about.

What if Lawfuls could only enforce the law in gunboats and below and had to reaserve thier criusers and up as purely war machines?

After all pirates can only break the law in gunboats and below so is it not fair play. I mean the rational that pirates dont pirate in criusers cause its too expensive is as silly/valid as saying law enforcement is too exspensive to be done with criusers and up. After all wouldnt the tax payers be more up tight than a single pirate captain whose god of his ship as opposed to a lawful who must answer to congress the senate and the tax payer?

There are no BHG NPCs in Sigma 13 so doesn't that mean there should only be limited player presence unless specifically contracted to be there?

Magic wand is not what I want ... but Bounty Hunters in battle cruisers while Mercenaries are in gunboats is a bit off. Lets seriously think about this ... Mercenaries participate in wars ... Bounty Hunters are an extension of the police. But I really would not care if the hunters kept their big ships if they didn't abuse this.

Rogues, Mollys, Outcasts, Corsairs, etc are allowed to have battleships ... they just cannot pirate in them. The Pirate ID specifically limits the pirate to a gunboat for this very reason. What I propose is that a Bounty Hunter can have his battle cruiser ... BUT ... he cannot hunt pirates in them. He can only hunt other like sized vessels ... like those Rogues, Molly's, Outcasts and Corsairs ... oh ... and those Order that are in their battleships, cruisers, destroyers and Osiris.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. again.........
I see a talk about BHG capwhores, I spoke with my fellow agents: we all work in house sytems with VHF's and bombers, I have been on for 2 months with only seing one incident of BHG cap ships in the House systems, I believe only one other member has seen a BHG cap ship once in the house sytems.
These "cap whores" seem to be outside of the system or they were something from the past that stil hasn't been let go.
If you see a BHG Cap ship out in the edge systems; run don't whine, BHG cap ships should be out there not in here, if you are out there - take it like a champ, it is where they belong.
If it is an issue you have with BHG because of somthing that happened two month ago....take it somwhere else.

Ah ... I understand ... you want to see where the problem children are ... venture outside the house systems.

Basically, I'm going for Neutral Evil.

I'm more of a Chaotic Good (this is the Robin Hood type for you lay people to D&D ... William Wallace would also fall into this category). These folk were on the wrong side of the law but on the right side of morality.

I'm glad you brought this up Rudo ... here's how I see all these abusive Bounty Hunters. Those like the one's I've displayed in this post fall under the Lawful Evil category. These are those on the right side of the law but on the wrong side of morality. If you've ever seen the movie Patriot with Mel Gibson ... take note of the Lawful Evil character portrayed by that British Colonel who led his troops to murder innocent civilians and justified it by saying they were supporting the rebellion.

I cannot help to observe how all this recent decline in Sigma 13 RP quality is becouse of me, placing my pirate on top of the NB jumphole, and making the dangerous route dangerous....

I've spoted a predictable patern:
Pirate a power trader, out comes the reengaging powerwhore. As the ship commander often speaks russian and very little to no english, no words but an engagement is eminent.... Then most of the times I destroy the fiend with my gunboat... and pop the route goes down... Then come outcasts hunting me in oorp fashion, then come the bountyhunters, then the traders start thretening with their cruisers, then they buy battleships, and switch to BH Gunships...

Now I wouldn't be pirating in sigma 13, if I didn't make damn good money...

Anyhow, If only one could be bothered to write all those reengagement reports, and find out who's who...

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