Placing a Bounty.

[Drake]

Don't feel like quoting anymore, so I'll just answer.

Never called you a liar, stop saying I did. I said the supposed reason why you haven't pirated for the past 3 months is absurd, which it is. You get capwhored when hanging out in Sigma-13, so you stop pirating altogether because of it, that's a bit of an overreaction.

ZoI has also come to mean 'Zone of Interest' and, like I said, is used by many/most people to represent any area where a particular faction can operate with regularity, not just where the faction has 'control'.

All blanket bounties have no specific target, unless you're talking about an entire NPC faction(s) as a specific target. Either way, I support blanket bounties which include 'x, y and z factions, and anyone with a pirate ID'. They're all an equal threat to the traders/civilians/lawfuls of the area, and it's no more possible for a generic pirate to pretend to not be a pirate than it is for a Outcast to pretend to not be an Outcast. There's no much room for subtlety or sneakiness in Freelancer, you're either 'lawful' or 'unlawful' or 'merc/freelancer'.

I've already provided my side, without calling you a liar.

None of the blanket bounties, whether specifically directed at a faction(s) or generically directed at all pirates, encourage PVP whores in capships to kill you, they do that in spite of the bounties, and it's sanctionable. You should be content with the fact that BHG players can't just KoS any unlawful (which is what the NPCs do), despite most of the unlawfuls appearing listed as 'enemies' in the faction information (BHG are the only faction which isn't allowed to engage their 'enemies' at will in any kind of ship they'd like). Unlawfuls are certainly still allowed to engage the BHG at will, and many (the majority?) do unless out-gunned.

Do the BHG need even more restrictions placed on them? I think not. They already have plenty of red tape, what with having to keep track of bounties, take screenshots of the enemy tag/ID, kill message, making sure those screenshots make it obvious what system(s) it was in, proper ship size (which in some cases is limited to fighters/bombers when a merc or freelancer going after the same bounty is allowed a gunboat), etc. They're more work to play than any other faction on the server... Except for random PVP capwhores, but they can be sanctioned now (though only random BHG capwhores can be sanctioned, not random pirate capwhores). Even if a blanket bounty allowed Hunter battleships to go after Mk. I light fighters, they'd still have to do all the screenshotting and uploading and 'paperwork' to make it legit, which is far for effort than a random PVP-whore will be willing to do.