Suggestion for 4.86 or some other update

[Not Espi]

I understand what are you saying, but i'm not talking about "unlawfull awareness". i'm talking about "lawfull shortage". let's take your example, you are liberty mil/police that recieved distress call. you respond, arive to the california, and at the location encounter 2-3 pirates. my question is: do you have authority in that situation? do you think that pirates are thinking about fact that you have entire "state" behind your back and that it's better to comply with your demands? no, i don't think so. they will attack you, destroy you and continue pirating.
that is the reason i recommended 4-5 times stronger lawfull ships, because only one lawfull is enough in that situation. yesterday in whole bretonia there was only 2 (two) BAF...
btw i like the idea about much stronger weapons on trade rings.

plain logic would dictate that since trade lanes just don't go being disrupted by accident, and therefore if someone - in the position of the law enforcer - goes there alone, he is an idiot. it doesnt matter though. personally i think it would be a pretty complicated script to write anyway.

bounties not being claimed was a prediction that was made when people cried about the BHG too much.

bounties are too complicated - simple as that. - a pirat can fire on a BHG at will - at any time, anywhere they go.... a BHG may self defense - but if he wants to attack he must be 100% sure that there is a bounty.

the difference is - that .... if he is not 100% sure ... he might face a sanction. - that is a lot more than just roleplay consequences.

people back then ( and still ) said that "its not too hard to keep bounties in mind" - but it is... bounty hunting doesn t work anymore. - why be a bounty hunter if you have to keep yourself totally up to date with all the complex little exceptions, laws, rules - etc. ?

bounty hunting is unattractive.

it is now the opposite of what it used to be. - hunters used to herd and swarm the pirates - they had to stand in a queue to attack pirates.... - now they are simply gone.

how about increasing the price for pirate pilots in lawfuls/bhg guard systems?

im guessing it would be pretty hard for a random freelancer/trader/anyone to dock on a guard base and sell his tractored unlawful pilots for lets say half a million per piece.

of course just that this would not get abused, the npc ships would drop a different sort of pilot than an actual player.

that way, lawfuls would be much more motivated to lets say hunt down a pirate and share the profit.

im talking about a RADICAL increase in price here. 2 mill for a corsair/outcast/molly/etcetc pilot for example. makes sense doesnt it :cool: