Placing a Bounty.

[Baltar]

@ Drake & Reverend Del: I really appreciate the fact that factionized BHG are under control ... its the indie BHG that worry me. So long as you can keep them under control I'm cool.

@ Drake: Don't call me hogwash again. I don't appreciate it. And yes ... the reason I stopped pirating is because of the ganking BHG BC's. I'd undock and there'd be 2 or 3 of em staring me in the face. May not be the way it is now at this very moment, but 3 months ago it was a different story.

@ Reverend Del: True ... being a pirate will make enemies ... but the long arm of the law doesn't extend to EVERY system. There are systems that lawfuls should fear entering. [RM] does a good job keeping their fleet confined to their home systems. KNF for the most part sticks to their systems as well. But BHG seem to go wherever they please with no expectation of opposition. Dropping the BHG to smaller vessels is a good start. I don't mind seeing a few BHG in fighters/bombers/gunboats coming after me ... but I should never see a fleet of BHG or caps chasing down a single pirate. You expect house systems to have a strong defenses and strict control over their systems. You would expect the same from the Outcasts and Corsairs (combined would be the Hispania house) ... but we see BHG caps parking near Crete quite often. And then we have independent systems where there is no organized group big enough or strong enough to effectively defend or control it ... and the BHG cannot defend and control every independent system. They are not a military organization. They are at best a loosly affiliated group of hunters. Its a guild ... not a government. They receive their pay by performing a service ... not by taxing the populous. My concern is NOT that I will be hunted by bounty hunters and such. I fully expect to be hunted (as I've said numerous times). That's not the issue. The issue is balance ... is this a game where we all get to have fun role playing our characters or are lawfuls the only ones that can control a system? Can't pirates maintain control of a system?