Placing a Bounty.

[Baltar]

It might be an idea to remove holders of independent pirate i.d.'s from certain bounties. That way, the authorities are targetting organised crime and members of known criminal gangs.

Thank you, Athenian. That would alleviate a bulk of my problem with generic bounties. At least your point here meets me on some middle ground on this issue. Both bounty hunters and pirates need to be able to role play their characters. The primary reason Black.Pearl has been "inactive" in piracy for over 3 months is due to the BHG BC's that over-populated Sig 13 a while back. It got to the point that a pirates ability to role play a pirate was completely gone. I moved Black.Pearl to Sig 13 for the specific reason that Liberty was too difficult to pirate in because of we were always outgunned. Liberty was effective in running off most pirates. Rheinland is the same ... too difficult to hang around there. So I moved to somewhere I could operate and role play my character freely. Next came the BH caps ... they showed up in groups of 2 or 3 BC's and battleships ... some even hanging out less than 2k from Yanagi. It got so bad that I had to give up piracy completely and move back to Liberty. Black.Pearl has (for the last 3 months) been moving water, food and medicines between Junker, Hacker and Rogue bases. I can't role play a pirate in an environment where every bounty hunter shows up when I login.

We need some balance ... hunter need to be able to hunt ... and pirates need to be able to pirate.

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?

Yes ... I understand it is cumbersome to keep a list of bounties. But you cannot use this as an excuse to put everyone under the gun. As I mentioned above ... we need some middle ground here. I want to be able to role play my pirate as a pirate and you wanna be able to role play your hunter as a hunter.

And I know full well there are absolutely no bounties with my name on them because I've been inactive for over 3 months. So unless someone has a grudge against me (personally or otherwise) you won't find one with Black.Pearl listed. But I'm gonna get ganked anyway because the generic bounties are gonna be used against me.

Middle ground please ... PLEASE.