Placing a Bounty.

[Grumblesaur]

I'm going to have to agree with Drake here, the blanket bounties aren't that serious. I had a horrible vision that they would be and have steps laid out to tone them down if ever they do get that bad, but 99% of them limit what you can take them in, and frankly you are a pirate. Life isn't supposed to be easy for you. Traders hate you, lawfuls of any stripe hate you, in fact there aren't many folks who DO like you. If you want an easy pirating life, play single player. I speak from good experience running a piracy operation in a place where there is no restriction on what size ship can turn up to make your life hell. Yet I still turn an ample profit with my Rogues, and there's TWO blanket bounties covering that area. So yeah if I can play an entire faction in Liberty, I fail to see how you can't pull off one GB in sigma 13.

But do you think it's fair, that a few Outcasts come down and attack someone in New York, and return to Alpha. A few hours later, we have a blanket bounty on every Outcast to enter Liberty space and the surrounding independent worlds. Then another Outcast, totally unrelated to the others, comes down and is swarmed by lawfuls on a something that isn't his fault? Corporal punishment isn't fun. A group is not to be punished for the actions of one. I wander down from Alpha to help with a gun transfer at Rochester. The first time I go in, I'm tailed by an LSF and BH. When I'm within 8k of Manhattan, I get at least one more LSF ship, a few indies, and a Kraken-toting freelancer shooting at me with as little RP as "engaging" and some don't say anything at all, failing to give me a chance to respond. Preventing a trial-by-forum here by not mentioning names. The reason I was originally attacked is for having a bounty. The hunter saw me first, and after that, everyone decided to join in.

Blarg.

Regardless, blanket bounties are a way to genocide people. Bounties should be done one single people. Let's say a rogue kills an LPI. Normal stuff, right? But then placing a bounty on every rogue, whether they were even involved or not is just overkill. Now I'm not saying the lawfuls are the only ones to do this; the LH did the same a while back. I really can't say I approve of it done on either side, unless they are constantly raiding each other.

And to add to that, blanket bounties are the way around the 'Hunters can't engage pirates on will.' I know it's not easy to be a pirate, but would it kill people to talk to me a bit like the way I do back to lawfuls?

/rant

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