Remove the Blanket Bounties

[Jihadjoe]

Indeed.

Auxiliary Police



Bounty Hunters



The key difference is, obviously, hair.

*High-fives Athenian*

The point being, that as head of the LN, if I see any bounty hunters trying to enforce liberty law, I will shoot them until they explode for vigilanteism. Unaccountable 'men-of-the-law' running around and dishing out justice as they see fit? Bad thing to have.

So, SeaEagle/SeaFalcon, you'd better stop with trying to enforce liberty law.

The blanket bounties are to deal with low profile criminals the lawful forces neither have the will nor the time or manpower to sort out. The bounty hunters are an ideal group dealing with that.

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[Baltar]

Question: If, say, the police were hunting Jeffrey Dahmer for being a murdering cannibal but when they caught him eating a perfectloy legal cheeseburger, would they be breaking the law in arresting him?

If I'd wanted a consequence free gaming experience, I would play chess against myself.

If needs be, we can put the blanket bounty question before the Admin team and find out if it needs to be changed. Depends on how much opposition there is (as opposed to how loudly people argue.) But, within reason, I think general contracts to target all members of known criminal organisations are fine, so long as people are reasonable in setting the terms and can show as much sportsmanship in "victory" as in "defeat."

How about the guy that robbed a bank and spent 10 years in prison. When he gets out of prison he's an EX-con ... he's done his time behind bars ... paid his debt to society. If you go beating up on him after he's served his time ... what's he gonna do? He's gonna realize that you aren't interested in "rehabilitation" and go back to his old ways. So ... if an ex-bank robber who just got out of prison (and spent his time in jail with good behavior ... ie: he's been rehabilitated) is sitting there eating a cheeseburger and you plug him full of holes with your .40 cal ... what does that make you? I'd say that's a fine line wouldn't you? Maybe you'd be called a "vigilante" rather than an honest law abiding citizen.

[ProwlerPC]

How about the guy that robbed a bank and spent 10 years in prison. When he gets out of prison he's an EX-con ... he's done his time behind bars ... paid his debt to society. If you go beating up on him after he's served his time ... what's he gonna do? He's gonna realize that you aren't interested in "rehabilitation" and go back to his old ways. So ... if an ex-bank robber who just got out of prison (and spent his time in jail with good behavior ... ie: he's been rehabilitated) is sitting there eating a cheeseburger and you plug him full of holes with your .40 cal ... what does that make you? I'd say that's a fine line wouldn't you? Maybe you'd be called a "vigilante" rather than an honest law abiding citizen.

A rehabilitated criminal is a civilian, a rehabilitated criminal that keeps going back to his gang and supporting them is a repeat offender.

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[Baltar]

A rehabilitated criminal is a civilian, a rehabilitated criminal that keeps going back to his gang and supporting them is a repeat offender.

Yes ... but if you meet my pirate ... how can you tell which of these I am? Maybe if I fly by a trader without stopping him or demanding anything from him ... and maybe I just say, "hello" and go on about my business ... maybe that would be an indication that I'm not causing trouble. Or do you just see the ID and IFF and start the pew pew. It takes a few more brain cells to play along with role play than to just see an ID and IFF and start trouble.

FYI ... my pirate does NOT pirate in house systems. When he does pirate ... its usually in border systems or the outer systems. Considering there's a war between Bretonia and Kusari ... if I pirate exclusively traders who support Kusari ... wouldn't that make the Bretonians turn a blind eye toward me? Think outside the box my friend.

[schlurbi]

Have you bothered to check our ID's?

We CAN'T bring our cap ships in to house space. Omegas, Omicrons, and Sigmas only - and we're prohibited from bringing them into Gamma, Alpha, and assorted Omega systems. Otherwise, what kind of escalation do you think you'd have seen when the KNF started trying to kick us off of Deshima?

Please, when did I say that people are bringing them into House Space.

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"Who is it doing this synthetic type of alpha beta psychedelic funkin'?"

[Dashiell]

Please, when did I say that people are bringing them into House Space.

just drop it, ok? this argument was slain with the 'hair reply'. all other posts are henceforth meaningless.:P




why was the first thing I thought when I saw this pic, 'S/D'?

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[Agmen of Eladesor]

A rehabilitated criminal is a civilian, a rehabilitated criminal that keeps going back to his gang and supporting them is a repeat offender.

Yes ... but if you meet my pirate ... how can you tell which of these I am?

Do you have a civilian ID? Then you're a civilian. Do you have a pirate ID? Then you're a pirate. Boy, just how HARD is that for you to understand and/or comprehend? Your ID is your way of telling everyone on the neural net what you are... <facepalm>



Oh, and Dash - that's because the S/D bar is the Duane Chapman Memorial Bar....

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.

[Baltar]

Do you have a civilian ID? Then you're a civilian. Do you have a pirate ID? Then you're a pirate. Boy, just how HARD is that for you to understand and/or comprehend? Your ID is your way of telling everyone on the neural net what you are... <facepalm>

Ah ... so red is dead for you. Thanks for letting me know of your limitations. :unsure:

[Bolverk]

If you have Pirate ID that means that you ARE a criminal.
You already did crimes and police has a record on you.
If your character is innocent, then he must have some other ID.

[AJBeast]

Wait a second, aren't IDs OORP information? I mean, it would be pretty damn dumb if someone walked around with an ID saying he is a criminal...