I'll merely paraphrase what Del and Cannon have said. We reserve the right to change our minds.
paraphrased Wrote:Daumann and Kruger do not directly attack each other. As Rheinland corporations they are not hostile to each other. They are not allies but they don't shoot at each other.
Our interpretation of the rumors is that they can and do pay other people, i.e. mercenaries, to harry or disrupt the other corporation's operations.
You can do what's needed to move others out of your fields up to the hiring of naughty folks to move them along, or asking the good folks to do the same. But no shooting each other.
Edit: The thing is: long term, how does this affect things? How does it contribute to the server roleplay? Following in game rumours is one thing, blanket bounties are another.
It wouldn't act like a blanket bounty against any Kruger miner you find cruisng by. It would be made as an area specific bounty, Krugers mining inside Daumann fields. We had a similar biunty against img some time ago where mercs would target miners in our fields only. We would also keep a a list of known people that use our fields, we had this before as well, called the omega book, so mercs know whot to look for.
We are not looking to go and attack Kruger miners, but to defend our fields from "intruders"
I'd say the best solution is a jointly funded bounty covering assassination missions on any and all Kruger/Daumann miners, you lot can figure out the IMG angle, who operate in fields deemed inappropriate. Likely dictated by the dividing line of the tradelane.
That's rather similar to what you lot had back in the day with MercNet.
as sombody that has nothing to do with this, i think DHC has the right of way here, they should be able to fire on kruger ships granted that
a) they get RM/RFP permission
b) official kruger permission, though they dont matter in this decision as much (either way the agreed not to mine in dhc fields anymore)
If you are in your country, and you discovered a gold mine, so you bought that gold mine from the government, and then you see strangers, who are also citizens of your country, mining your fields without your permission, and then the government tells you, you cannot stop that person from taking your gold, how would you feel?
I feel that RM and RFP are the ones that are responsible here, I dont think admins should be intervening unless both parties are shooting eachother for lolz
DHC is in a similar mess right now, and they should be able to punish kruger ships that are in fields that are legally owned by them (dhc) the opposite (kruger shooting DHC where they don't belong) should apply as well.
Again so long as the pew pew only occurs regarding ore theft, its fine, if its a blanket bounty, or KOS, then its OORP-fullstop. but that's not whats going on here. DHC is bountying folks that are stealing ore..
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Blanket bounty on mining vessels at work in fields of competitors does not seem illogical. Good luck finding mercs who are hostile to your competitor but friendly to yourself however...
I see keeping order between in-house fields as a task of the local law enforcement, in this case the RFP. One Mjolnir should be able to boot vessels back to their own fields quite easily. Outside of house space (Taus, Omegas, Omicrons) things tend to get a bit more lawless... I could see more direct hostilities taking place there.
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