BHG Warships. A flawed concept?

[DarkOddity]

Markus,

You make a good point in regards to the oorp conduct by those 'afraid' of the bounty hunter. This behavior is silly, because apparently the players behaving like this do not realize they have a choice.

Option 1: Ignore the bounty hunter, he can't engage you, so obviously he isn't there to 'pvp whore'.
Option 2: Attack the bounty hunter, after all.. pirates don't like hunters.
Option 3: Demand the BHG leave, or suffer the consequences.

So if you look at those options, there is no excuse for the OORP chat by those who are trying to get BHG to leave them alone. If you want to get rid of them, doing via RP. If you choose option 1, and you don't have a bounty on you.. then they are acting out the pvp-whore mentality and can justly be reported. However, if you start getting irritated and start spamming system about capship abuse before the capital ship pilot can even do, or say anything, you are the one creating the problem.

So let's draw up a scenario for everyone real fast.

BHG Battleship enters Omicron Gamma via the jumphole from Omega-41. BHG Battleship approaches Crete, or Tripoli and begins to slay countless NPCs, player corsairs watch the onslaught. There are no bounties posted on forums for the corsairs. The player corsairs are now faced with the three options. Say there are 5 corsairs, and 3 of them choose to initiate in option 2, and attack the BHG battleship. The battleship now engages these 3 players in self defense. The other two player corsairs? They are off-limits as they do not have bounties, and did not engage the hunter.

Basically.. if you see a BHG Battleship in your system killing your NPCs.. they are fully within their right of roleplay, killing the NPC's, collecting their escape pods to sell for credits. The perk of owning a battleship at this point is, if the enemies in charge of the system you are located in want you gone, THEY have to make the choice to engage you. This choice is left up to the pirate NOT the bounty hunter, therefore BHG capship 'whoring' is IMPOSSIBLE unless the pilot of the capship actually breaks the RP rules, which is a sanctionable offense.

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