Placing a Bounty.

[looqas]

Listen folks ... I'm all for a good hunt ... being hunted by hunters and me hunting traders. I just don't want it cheapened by generic bounties. I pick and choose my targets. I don't take on every freighter, transport or liner that crosses my path. You pick and choose the one that's worth the most ... and you make exceptions. A doe and a faun in my book would be Zoners, Junkers, GMG (Kishira because of their rep with GMG) and other friendlies. I go after the bucks ... house traders and such. House traders are supporting oppressors. Because of them I must move water, food, medicine and other such commodities between the oppressed throughout Sirius. Are you guys catching on to my role play here? What one man calls a criminal another calls a freedom fighter. Think Robin Hood folks. If you wanna hunt me ... then place a bounty on me for something I actually do. But don't cheapen fun because you're too lazy to check the forums and compile a list for your day's hunt. Prep your battle field by doing a bit of research and conduct some intell. Then grab your gun and go on the hunt. But don't shoot a duck with a machine gun ... no sport in that.

Moved to Bounty Discussion thread

I kinda agree with you there on some points. This is discussion about the blanket bounties after all. The good and the bad sides.

But before going to discussion about the blanket bounties I'd like to comment about what you said.

Do you have any idea how much time I use to keep a list of applicable bounties up-to date? It's much more work than actually hopping on the server and going RP in my pirate and possibly reporting it in the dump. Browsing through the list to see if it fits it takes time. Or have you ever taken a look at the posts Athenian makes to bounty boards? The amount of time he uses just to compose one good bounty claim. And how much background work any of the S/D puts in there, doing intel and such?

The way I work and I see most of the S/D work too is that if they see specific bounty we go after him, but if there are no specifics around we patrol and see if we can catch any blanket bounties. So you could say you very, very rarely see S/D guys out of house space.

Certainly I've made mistakes in engaging when there is no bounty in place. But those have been honest mistakes.

How does a generic bounty cheapen the hunt? The RP has to be there too. Most likely you'll get same kind of RP whether you have a specific bounty on you or not. Sometimes it can be even worse. Almost all of the blanket bounties restrict the hunters to use small ships whereas many specific bounties is free of all ships. I'll rather have those hunters come at me in bomber and fighters than in BH BCs.

And I think it even help the pirates to have a blanket bounty on them. If a hunter comes at you and says there's a bounty on you and I lose, get pissed at the hunter then storm to forums to find out if he was telling me the truth. As a pirate you should also be aware of the bounties on you, so you spend time searching for the bounty too.


I've got both pirate chars and hunter chars. So I see both sides. I find that playing hunter actually demands more. More RP and more restrictions are placed on you. And there are bounties on hunters as well so you'll have to keep your eyes open to Mercs and Freelancers as well. They can fly next to you and announce that you are on the list and deliver that sucker punch. Nobody forces me to play the hunter, but I find it interesting. But what would be the fun if everybody played cops and robbers?

At least when I'm on my pirate I have a pretty clear and definite idea who my enemies are, whereas in hunter the solution is not just alt-tab and check the list. This ends me dead or quarry 15k away. So those REASONABLE blanket bounties help me catch the guy.

And I think we are slowly moving in the right direction with these blankets. True, blanket bounties are open to abuse but I started this thread to negate that and raise the profile and discussion of such abuse cases.

- Bounties should be placed on unlawfuls based on their reps with those being pirated (as illustrated above). Generic bounties do not take these situations into account. Perhaps a better way to post a bounty would be if the pirate is actively pirating within your house. But if he's pirating your enemy ... turn the other way as if you are unaware of his presence or activities.

Currently the blanket bounties (what I consider to be in RP and thus have included in my own list, not Sigma bounties) have very clear ZOIs and/or restrictions. I don't find the current blankets to be that problematic really if done correctly. It's totally up-to the ones who place the bounty how to restrict the terms. Mostly the blanket bounties consist of house spaces. Any criminal should be hunted when he crosses to house space. It's the risk that comes with the territory.


And I've learned a long time ago not to judge a faction based on the works of the individual(s). Be that pirate, trader, lawful or hunter. There are stereotypes and I make fun of them, but I can tell the difference in the server. The reputation of an individual or a player group is earned over time. The reputation can be either good or bad. Everyone in the server has that luxury and will eventually make a name for themselves (be that good or bad).

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