Admin Notice: Bounty System Overhaul

[Govedo13]

I am not sure that bureaucracy will stop certain groups of experienced(aware about the rules) and skilled PvPers to find a excuse(bounty) to PvP around everything that moves.

Actually I think that the Freelancer id must loose the right to collect bounties.
Right now I cannot see why should I choose BHG ID for lawful merc when I can take Merc ID and be lawful in one house and unlawful in the other.
Merc ID allows me to RP with other factions and get their ships/guns. In proper BHG RP I should stick to BHG tech. And BHG ships received some nerfs- Bottlenose for example.May be unnerf it and allow it only for official BHG players? It will make slight shift of the balance- I mean people who make problems go after blue msgs not after any kind of RP- right now they all use sabres(best civ VHF) with codes and Merc IDs..

Merc ID offers more options - RP and PvP ones- that is the actual problem.
Since there are game mechanics that allow loopholes the only way to be controlled is by changing this ID.In sirius is nothing like Interpol- for example Merc A can kill Lawful ships in Bretonia and the same time to work for Rheinland Military killing Unioners for them. It make no sense in RP why the Bretonian ambassador
would not demand FR5 for this merc in Rheinland. There is no logic why two houses who are not in war and have join efforts to secure space as much as they can (BAF and RM in their treaty about Omega patrols) should allow such thing to happen.
I think that Merc ID problem is the same as the old Miner ID- you cannot be unlawful and lawful at the same time without metagaming- the game mechanics simply don't allow it. The whole bounty problem is Merc ID problem nothing more.
Change the IDs solve the problem.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)