Placing a Bounty.

[Derkylos]

There are an awful lot more "generic" pirates floating around than you'd think. The main reason for this is that, as an unlawful, your activity is more pro-active. You go into the houses, spout forth your views, kill some traders, and get a response from the lawfuls. Lawfuls cannot do the reverse...Bretonians cannot go to Gamma and attack Corsair ships, Libertonians cannot invade Alpha.

As the primary lawkeeping forces cannot maintain sufficient presence 24/7 to ward off hostiles, hired guns must be given free reign to attack these unlawfuls, naturally in return for cash.

Even with the current blanket bounties, it is usually very hard to find a target. Most of the server population will, at any one time, be tradeships. Of the rest, one must eliminate the lawfuls, mercs, and oddballs. This leaves a very small portion of legitimate targets.

As a pirate, I find it incredibly easy to avoid both the law and hired guns. And, no, I don't pirate in Sigma-13 (the place of constant warfare) or New York, yet I still make a sizable income from pirating...

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