Placing a Bounty.

[looqas]

Now I have more time to refine my thoughts, so here we go.

Personally I think LPI and BHG (along with BAF and BPA) blanket bounties are very good examples how to place a blanket bounty that has all the good elements of any bounty: ZOI, ship class, how much all heads are worth and who can collect them. And all those 4 items are in those said posts well within RP. They make common sense.

If the bountied party ventures to opposition's "home turf" then it should not be a walk in the park. And as such a bounty makes sense. But placing a bounty to some area that is not exactly your core operation just sounds wrong no matter how well meaning it is.

But placing a blanket bounty on the enemy territory is problematic to say the least. I think BHG's blanket in Gamma and Alpha is cool since it has strict rules of limiting ship to be used in collection. I don't have a Corsair char, so I don't really know how bad the collecting is right now. Still the regulations in this particular bounty leave a door opening for abuse (namely GB horde).

Also placing a blanket bounty seriously can hamper your own game time. You have to pay up, report it and what-not.

Of course the simplest way to not endorse a bounty that seems bit off is to ignore it. Not to go chasing it. All bounties that have not been responded within 2 months are erased, so...



All in all. I think we are heading in the right direction with the bounties in general. Things are still in the shaping phase. Personally I think the blanket bounties are a good thing and promote RP. It forces at least one of the participants to talk (the hunter).


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Personal puff to hope to see some change and make thing easier to all the pirates and hunters:

All I could hope for is for those who place the bounties would edit the subtitle to say something like CLOSED if the bounty have been fulfilled/closed. Also edit the first post to read CLOSED if it is indeed closed. And also edit the first post to have include the "Added bounties", so they don't drown in page 4 amidst the collection reports.

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