Regarding fake bounties.

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Well, apparently have have blanket bounties for just about every faction out there. A secondary question to this though, being an unlawful bounty, the person who claimed it was bearing a Freelancer ID and flying a Gallic Navy vessel. Is that appropriate?

In regards to blanket bounties: There's a whole lot of them. Most official factions have blanket bounties for just about every major enemy they have. Your example, the Contari Lance, happens to have a lot of enemies.

Specific bounties in my experience don't work so well. The player renames, or simply doesn't log that character for a bit, and so forth. It wouldn't be worth hunting bounties without blanket bounties.

As for the GRN ship with a Freelancer ID: everyone and their dog 'roleplays' a 'stolen ship' nowadays. An unfortunate fact. It's acceptable rule-wise, however.

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