Unlawful Mercenary ID

[Leo]

You mean that a Zoner Whale can Hire my mercenary bomber to pirate someone if he hires me?

In that case yes we should add this to the ID.

I believe how the ID was worded before it was taken off was something like:

"-May pirate while under contract and in the company of other pirates"

...or something to that effect. I don't remember the actual wording that was on it, but that was similar to what it said, so no, you couldn't hire your whale, but other pirates could to help them out on pirating runs on lanes and what not. But I think it was taken off. (On a government computer and cannot get access to the wiki from here, it's blocked).

The point is, mercenaries are there to either provide security or perform hits on people. They're hired, they get paid by their employer.

In your case, if the person in question is 'hired' to plunder a ship, he's basically earning money from the piracy act, not being paid by their employer. So in the end, he's still a pirate, not a mercenary.

What we do need to add though, is the ability of Pirate IDs to perform bounty contracts.

Incorrect, sir. They were hired, paid to help the pirates pirate traders. As an extra pair of guns. When it was on the merc ID before, I did it tons of times. I never took cargo and the pirate was the only one who got the credits, not me. I was just there to provide cover for him, however, being there and threatening a trader counts a pirating, so, I got paid by the pirate to help him at the start, and didn't take credits from the trader.

...and, adding the ability to do pirating to the pirate ID would be cool, but only for unlawful hits, which in such a case, would remedy this entire post because then it would work out the same as the Unlawful Mercenary ID would have done.

~Leo

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