Remove the Blanket Bounties

[Athenian]

That's called being lazy. You wanna role play as a bounty hunter ... or do you just wanna get on with the PVP?

PvP obviously. Although that's a false dilemma you present looqas with. Role-play and PvP....these are not mutually exclusive things.

PvP is an important component not just of Discovery, but specifically of playing the role of a bounty hunter, a mercenary, a pirate, certain freelancers, and pretty much all the House militaries. This is not Discovery Hand-Holding Server 24/7 - it is a role-playing server with the added "attraction" of having spaceships that can fire guns being available to the general public. A kind of a right to bears arms exists here, but it's more a "futuristic galaxy where life is cheap" than "your neighbours now own a anti-aircraft gun" kind of right.

Evading hunters, lawful and unlawful, normally involves exploitation of game mechanics, but has also been known to take the form of people claiming that even though they are using the ID of a criminal gang, are considered a member of said gang, have acquired the reputation that allows them to land on pirate bases, trade in illegal goods, and generally take long, warm showers with all manner of disreputable thugs, they somehow should not be considered pirates. It all sounds a little disingenuous. You can't have everything. You can't have the freedom of a pirate ID and not expect to run into trouble should the law of its duly appointed deputies come after you...
1)having posted adequate forum roleplay
2)in keeping with the canon of Freelancer and people's experience of how the NPC engine behaves in hunter-criminal interactions. Of course players should play to a higher standard than NPC's...but if you watch NPCs you may be surprised at just how much better they can be than many players.

And the bounties aren't true wildcard licenses to kill - look at the restrictions (some of which are probably a little too rigid).

Bounties have been closed before for being too broad and having flimsy RP behind them. The current ones seem pretty okay.

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