BHG Warships. A flawed concept?

[DarkOddity]

Ok, I told myself I wouldn't get involved in any of these arguments and back and forths but....

As a former Bounty Hunters Guild pilot (Founder of the Shadow Stalkers Organization) who owned and operated a BHG Battleship, and admittedly got PVP-whorish with it (I'm a big part of the reason cruise was outlawed in combat... as I used it with my BHG Battleship to move at the speed of fighters)


There are a couple of things we need to look at, one of which is a good thing, Bounty Hunters REQUIRE a target to have a bounty in order to engage another player.

The second is a very bad thing, the boards (I haven't looked myself, but spotted multiple mentions of it in this thread) contain general bounty contracts. Simply outlaw general contracts that exploit the bounty hunter engagement rules. That solves that problem.



Now, for a personal suggestion to help curb the cap ship abuse.. being a former cap ship pilot and PVP whore (Yes, I can admit it now, but that's all changed:P) do the following:

PUNISHMENT FOR OORP (Out of Roleplay) CAPITAL SHIP USAGE (Gunboat and Higher Classes)

1. Deletion of ALL characters, across ALL accounts owned by the player, including banks and armories.
   
2. 30 Day IP Ban, or more depending on the severity of the violation
   

These are SERIOUS punishments, for (in my eyes, and others) a very serious crime. There should be absolutely NO exception for the abuse of capital ships, and the punishment should be more than just taking the capital ship away and giving the player a temporary ban.

Capital ships are a privledge that we have been given, and on the RP server, there is absolutely no excuse for a player who is piloting a battleship to violate any kind of RP rules, especially those governing the use of a capital ship. If you've been around long enough to afford a capital ship.. You've been around long enough to know the rules, and violation of those rules is unacceptable.



For the record, with the above in place.. my vote is to NOT put more restrictions on capitals.. just thoroughly and abundantly punish the abusers of these rules.

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