Mercenary on contract...

[Ion]

Ok... so im sitting at buffalo base with another rogue...

theres a merc and BH after him... following a contract to kill the rogue I am with

the merc proceeds to dock on buffalo before the attack.

this just seems WRONG, or is it me.


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mercs seem to have this " I can dock anywhere I want to because I am a merc" attitude, which to me, is just wrong.

that is a PIRATE base mate, and you are hunting one of those pirates! you think they are gonna be your best mates??

(also the small issue of the merc in a corsair gunboat, killing corsairs, suprised when we say he cannot dock on arranmore)

GIVE RP A CHANCE! these mercs think they are immune to anyone being hostile.

(the one outside buffalo got suprised when I attacked him and his friend)

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[frozen]

agreed. this is a case of OORPness. why? because why the hell would a pirate base let you dock on it, when you are about to engage on of their own?

in RP sense, this should be a violation (imo, id be all for reporting it, since its not within roleplay at all). that kind of attitude is the kind that is giving all the merc who ARE rping a bad name (including my merc >.> )

for example: my merc works for money, the highest bidder getting my services. however, if i just undocked from lets say, malta, i wont be hunting no outcast. id instrad go for a corsair, or anyone else.

seriously, id consider reporting the guy ( >.> <.< )

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[sinned-40]

I had a simmiler moment with a Full corsair tag and ID in O-15 i was taunting him with my Merc in my Bommer to draw him ayay from the junker base> I flew to the BH base but over flew it because of typing and when i looked around He had docked at the BH base to resuply then he came after me again ya ya Reengaugement But what i pointed out to him is He is a Pirate Docking at Pirate hunter Headquaters and i wasnt gunna let him shoot at me any more for such a cheap OORP trick and my job was done the guy the guy that hired me to distract the corrsair launched safely so i just flew away..

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[Ascended~Sempi]

realy ppl
n real life the merc take whoever pays him the higest he could be in usa and some pays him to kill the prsident he would this is trupid mercs are neather lawfull or unlawfull there a rift betwee the to honestly this Rping is far from real life!

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I may be ascended but that does not mean I have to be well mannerd!

Halt i am a big pink blob of goodess i will kill you with my Mellow-Nator!

[Thor22]

Ok... so im sitting at buffalo base with another rogue...

theres a merc and BH after him... following a contract to kill the rogue I am with

the merc proceeds to dock on buffalo before the attack.

this just seems WRONG, or is it me.
/// RANT ///

mercs seem to have this " I can dock anywhere I want to because I am a merc" attitude, which to me, is just wrong.

that is a PIRATE base mate, and you are hunting one of those pirates! you think they are gonna be your best mates??

(also the small issue of the merc in a corsair gunboat, killing corsairs, suprised when we say he cannot dock on arranmore)

GIVE RP A CHANCE! these mercs think they are immune to anyone being hostile.

(the one outside buffalo got suprised when I attacked him and his friend)

/// END RANT ///

Right, this was my merc char, and I admit that it was an ooRP thing to do - but you have taken this very badly, almost personally. It's not my intention to upset you on a personal level, if you must know, I never even recived my fee for this job, so it was quite fruitless to say the least...

I also docked on Buffalo due to the fact that my contractor was a fair distance away and still searching for the rogue - I was contracted only to protect him if he was attacked - but again, it was silly to do this and I apologise for any - and quite obvious - personal strife this has casued you.

agreed. this is a case of OORPness. why? because why the hell would a pirate base let you dock on it, when you are about to engage on of their own?

in RP sense, this should be a violation (imo, id be all for reporting it, since its not within roleplay at all). that kind of attitude is the kind that is giving all the merc who ARE rping a bad name (including my merc >.> )

for example: my merc works for money, the highest bidder getting my services. however, if i just undocked from lets say, malta, i wont be hunting no outcast. id instrad go for a corsair, or anyone else.

seriously, id consider reporting the guy ( >.> <.< )

Feel free to report me if you feel it necessary, but in all honesty, it was a simple moment of forgetfulness.

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[Lohingren]

ahem no offense puck i know this guy

and alot of this stuff is rather exagurated might i add bud

as i said i know this guy infact hes a very trusted mate, the fact your over blowing this is annoying to be honest.

this one usually works for pirates quite alot so yes in RP mate he most likely will dock on buffalo.

as for you saying hes out on a contract against this rogue is kind crap also since the rogue attacked his contractee 1st all he was doing was protecting his cash like any paid whore would do.

i personally told him to say what he said why? cause puck im sorry bud your the one who started the crap doing the rule lawyering (or did you forget to add that part) saying you docked there and engaged me blah blah blah.

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oh and dont forget the fact that noone can know who the merc is working for, for any given moment so as for the thing about buffalo not letting him dock because he is out to get a rogue aint such a good excuse cause to them hes just the merc who helps pirates usually. they would have no clue he was after such person until he opened fire on him. so theres that one out the window

//EDIT

let me put it another way puck bud, instead of saying he was ooRP (which in ways it may seem like he is) in some ways he actually isnt.

why not do the REAL rp thing to do and consider it this way, this merc has deviated from his pirate ways and is now defected to the lawful side. he took a contract to help a bh kill a rogue using his connections to dock on buffalo to attempt to kill him while he was defenseless.

instead of jumping to the sanction forum put it this way, he succeeded in lying and tricking buffalo into letting him dock and has been found out to be a traitor and is now to be put on KoS list to all Rogues

is that not the more sensible thing to do instead of trying to punish someone for something so stupid?

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Reapers of Sirius Database

[Ion]

this mercenary was working for a Bounty Hunter, who was seeking a rogue target.

This means he is aligned to the bounty hunter, for whatever length of time the contract is.

lets say olden days... if spain hired a mercenary company in the caribbean, would they be allowed to dock at an english port?

no.

if they started to work for england, then they would, but spain would not let them dock.

very simple.

mercenary alignments may shift with contracts, but they can not keep their freedoms while on a job.

(I also have a generic mistrust of mercenaries and generic ID holders... too much bad RP form them over my time on disco)

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[Etaphreven]

I don't know what to say, actually. How would the pirates know he's about kill one of theirs?

[Lohingren]

he aint no marked merc he has no tag or id (saying hes working for the BH) they have no way of knowing that he was working for the bounty hunters at this time, unless your making out your char is psychic? ........

and that the rogues themselves are psychic ......

a single merc/assassin can find it very easy to dock on such base he aint no damned mercenary group thats known by all hes a lone merc that probably none of you heard of in yer life

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Reapers of Sirius Database

[Reverend Del]

The offending pilot has apologised. Simple as that.

Puck is quite correct about shifting loyalties,as Frozen said a Merc works for whoever pays him money, if that's the lawfuls today then he ain't going to get a pat on the back from the unlawfuls.

Nobody in their right mind trusts a merc. You pay him he does the work and you part ways. A merc that works predominantly for pirates is going to make a name for himself as a pirate, whether he is one or not. Lawfuls wouldn't go near him with a ten foot pole, he's likely made to many friends within the pirates to be considered in any way a useful asset.

Let's take an example from another RPG: the table-top game Shadowrun. In Shadowrun you are mercenarys, freelancers for hire to do the dirty work of whoever pays the nuyen. A shadowrun team that wroks mostly for one corporation gets the best toys and the higher cred and ends up working for the corporation entirely because no other corp or fixer will want to hire them, they've become too enmeshed with one corps workings and that could create a conflict of interest should they be accepted for a job against their preferred company. What little trust there must be between Merc and contractee is lost and negotiations will not even be mooted let alone held. This group sells out after this because it has no choice. A good Shadowrunning team works all sides of the fence, working for whoever will pay them and never working for the same corp twice in a row.

Reputation is everything to a mercenary, as it's this which gets him his work. Working for the pirates will tarnish your rep with the good guys and this means you need to tarnish it the other way as soon as possible, keeping the balnce is difficult.

A Merc that almost exclusively deals with pirates should have the good RP not to accept contracts from the BHG or any other lawful. Mercenary reputation isn't a big thing on Disco and perhaps it should be better made aware of.

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Saint Del is considered a holy healer of diseases of children, but also as a protector of cattle.