Getting Pirated by a freelancer

[Hannibal]

The question was:

Can Freelancer defend Pirate from trader firing at him, while being hired as escort?

I was told that Bounty Hunting & Freelancer Hiring rules are not applicable to the situation, in which Freelancer is escorting another player - in this case: Pirate, helping him only in the situation if Pirate is fired upon. Other than that, Freelancer was said only to CD the trader, without being initially directly involved into assault onto trading vessel unless 1) freelancer being fired upon or 2) escorted vessel being fired upon.

the only problem is that you applied the above to a generic id pirate
you should have read the server rules:

4. Mercenaries, freelancers and bounty hunters may be hired on the spot in game by non-generic IDed players to assist with a combat without a forum post. The other parties involved in the combat must be made aware of this.

you've been breaking this rule for 4 years in which you had no excuse for not reading it(since you're not new,as you said above)

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