Placing a Bounty.

[Athenian]

If I report a bounty hunter for killing me without a bounty, will said bounty hunter be sanctioned? My guess is "no" since there are so many generic bounties out there he can lie and claim he was hunting for one of them. He'd get away with it too since nearly every lawful faction has posted a generic bounty to loophole the rule.

People have been sanctioned for that in the past week.

As for the /setbounty and /renameme commands...

/renameme makes named bounties practically impossible to set, let alone collect on. The BPA set bounties on countless individuals who shot up New London, attacked police officers (most of whom RP with the intent of an arrest rather than a fight). We had cases where people renamed their characters changing a single letter to avoid the consequences.
When the /setbounty command was being proposed, many of us raised an objection on the grounds that it would encourage a rush to kill someone who logged on without any decent RP - in game or on the forum.

I know the bounties that are out there pretty well. And there are a lot of places and circumstances where anyone killing a pirate is beyond his jurisdiction. For example, the BPA does not license any attacks on Outcasts.

If you kill Corsair fighters in a Battlecruiser then, based on the current bounties, you are out of order. If someone does this, they are, in my opinion as a player, abusing the game.

Having said that, pirates sitting on trade lanes within 10k of a House planet deserve what they get. Pirates that sit in New London orbit ganking ships wthout so much as a by your leave deserve what they get.

What they should get is RP. An opportunity to surrender or defend themselves. And a bashing if they won't come quietly. In all my time asking people to give themselves up, only ONE player has surrendered - elgatodiablo. I caught him pirating a trader in Cambridge; he knew he was outgunned and his ship was boarded and his character put in restraints until the cops arrived. He was the subject of a blanket bounty. Compare this to my experience of hunting a named criminal and trapping him in Newark Station (he docked when he was informed that we were taking him into custody). We tried, in vain, to RP a sitaution that had him locked in a docking bay with a squad of hunters trying to force their way in. What we got in return was ooc waffle and a departing player message.

As Agmen said, it's the players that make this game what it is.


Moved to Bounty Discussion thread

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