NOTICE: Bounty Hunting Line Update

[Seapanda]

Contract - Agreement between "Employer" and "Contractor" for the "Contractor" to perform services in exchange for payment from the "Employer"
Services: Escort, Elimination, Delivery or any combination of these
Target is the entity that is to be:
- Escorted (including but not exclusive to "Employer")
- Delivered (including but not exclusive to "Employer")
- Eliminated (including but not exclusive to "Employer")
Purpose of the contract is:
- Escort
- Delivery
- Elimination
Target is not to be confused with Purpose.

Old: Can attack any ship in pursuit of a contract.
- ID Lines would over write Server Rules 2.3, 2.4 while the BH Player was "in pursuit of a contract."
It is interpretable if you overthink it. Really.
Case:
BH1 - Are you Pursuing a Contract?
BH2 / Freelancer: Yes.
BH1: I can attack you! /1/2/3
"Insert meme here"
OR
BH1: I am pursuing a contract and you are interfering. /1/2/3
This would let the BH get in fights with anyone. Anyone.
IMO: Old was better, with more room to maneuver and create organic encounters with backstab possibilities.

New: Can attack any ship that is the target of a contract.
If I hire BH1 to deliver item X to station Z, the target of the contract is?
The purpose is the delivery.
The target is the item? If so, any ship attacking the BH would not be a target of the contract, instead the BH would have to attack only in self defense (allied or neutral) or against enemy ships.
Or
I hire BH1 to Escort ship X to Station Z.
Target of the Contract is Ship X.
Purpose is escort to station Z.
BH1 can attack the ship its paid to defend, without any interference from anyone else.

You tell me which is more complex.

I think this is splitting hairs and bordering with the "too niche". Why would you ever hire a bounty hunter to do transport duties? That line doesn't mean now, nor ever before, that the bounty hunter should "attack your items" that they are transporting.

The way the line was meant originally was, as it was explained to me was reading as follows:

It means BHG
Comma
In pursuit of a contract
Comma
Can attack any ship

I hire BH1 to Escort ship X to Station Z.
Target of the Contract is Ship X.
Purpose is escort to station Z.

You are still confusing bounty hunting with escorting. Hiring someone as an escort is not the same as issuing a monetary bounty on someone's head.

BH1 - Are you Pursuing a Contract?
BH2 / Freelancer: Yes.
BH1: I can attack you! /1/2/3
OR
BH1: I am pursuing a contract and you are interfering. /1/2/3
This would let the BH get in fights with anyone. Anyone.

With the new bounty hunting lines that were added, this is also covered.


Please see the original post, I've added the new lines there.