Bounty Hunters Guild Feedback

[Athenian]

Well, I would really have loved to replied in http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=40768 seeing as stuff was directly addressed to me, but that thread got a lock before I could. What Agmen said goes pretty much for me as well. However there are some things I would like to point out.

I'll introduce this topic saying that I was killed by hunters and that's not a problem for me (except when 10 hunter/LN ran on me and got my 47 xenos pilots today and I wanted to use for making my hacker a specialist ...), some of them gave me good fights. I lost, I won, well it's the game ! So please understand that I'm not crying about the players killing me while this mod was done for that.

Nevertheless, there is a real problem with current hunters but one lady : Esther Carson.

You will note here that our huntress is the only one claiming her bounty.
Athenian, have your guild an other kind of incomes ?
How the hunter get funds for their operations when they aren't claiming the bounties ?

PLEASE CLAIM YOUR BOUNTIES OR DO NOT ENGAGE MORE FIGHTS !

Well, in more sophisticated, I'd say to hunters to do their jobs and do it well, not half ! It could come out of RP (even more than the "dai hacker" that i had right today)

Personnally, I'll take next kills from an hunter, which is NOT claiming his bounty in the following week, as abusive and out of role play.
You play an hunter so hunt me, don't kill me for simple pleasure of the blue text and fireworks.



EDIT : If it's not taken in consideration, then look at all the bounties there is in the forum, it could allow any mercenary to turn into a terrorist !

Are you high? You threatening to sanction people because they don't post on the forums?

I have a real life. An actual real life with family and a job and a child on the way and things like mortgages. If I posted on every single kill I made, every single interaction between me and other players, I would have none of the above. Especially the unborn child. I have better things to do than convert images into jpegs, upload them, and then write a post. I'd rather write one when I actually feel like it. And make it funny or entertaining

Maybe we could re-write

6.21 Attacking without an engagement notice is not allowed. All attacks must be preceded with some form of RP, regardless of NPC faction diplomacy.

as

6.21 Attacking without an engagement notice or forum post is not allowed. All attacks must be preceded and followed with some form of RP, regardless of NPC faction diplomacy.

If you think someone has broken the rules, go ahead and report them. You have my skype - go that avenue in future if you have a problem with any of the faction. You should know better by now.

Nowadays the Bounty Hunters are working like the Police. They see me chasing a Trader. So they go after me.
(Even when i dont have any Credit on my head) Its bad and people start fearing them more than the Police or Navy. Feck, there are even more BHG|'s in Liberty than cops. Move around. I never see a BHG in Bretonia. And there are Bounties to claim aswell.

In fact i get Bounty Hunters camping bases, Bounty Hunters shooting at me while docking and undocking. Attacking me without having a bit of Roleplay. Sometimes even without an rp'd engagement notice.

I really see a lot of Bounty Hunters Shooting at people which dont have a Bounty.

Remember:

You are not the Police!

You can't live in a consequence free environment. It's taken us well over a year to establish current bounty systems. We increased our presence in Liberty deliberately to counter the Cap 8 Gunboat Pirate gangs phenomenon. That was fun.

If someone is camping a base get a ss and post it to me or post a rules violation report.

Seeing as we are now talking about sanctioning people for not writing on the forums, maybe you should be sanctioned for not reading them properly. Better consult Grimly on this one.

Hmm... perhaps it's time for me to show my face before this turns into an all out flame thread.

I do not like Bounty Hunters. Straight out, let my bias be known. That said, I understand their purpose.

As a pirate, it is not that I cannot pirate every trader that comes along, I rarely do that anyway even if I'm not harassed by your kind. But it has become a bit ridiculous of late. I step out of base and I have about five minutes before one comes down the line and with minimal RP, attacks. I won't complain that I get killed, that's part of being the scum of Liberty, right? But when I get to fly for five minutes at peak time before one runs down the line is downright annoying. At least give some good RP if you're going to rain on my parade.

Now, that's the end of that part of the rant. Some of you DO provide fun RP. Sometimes, I get to fly around on a multi-system chase that ends up usually with my death. Barghests just can't turn fast enough to track ya, but that's part of the fun right? I love those encounters. I end up shaking with adrenaline and have a huge smile on my face. Kudos to those bounty hunters that provide such an experience.

Unfortunately, those experiences that I'd list as fun are few and far between. I mostly just run as soon as I see a tag or IFF now because it's not worth it to stay. Perhaps if you did something about that, I don't know what, you might have more fun too.

But perhaps not.

I'm to blame somewhat as well. I realize that sitting in some of the lanes that I do makes me an easy target. I have begun moving around and not hitting the same place for too long and I'm better for it. I'll tell you what though, if I see less bounty hunters, I'll not shed a single tear. Not a one.

Post here in future. I went to the trouble of opening a faction feedback thread. Do us the courtesy of posting your remarks in it.

Three pirates have surrendered in my time chasing people. Three. The RP thing goes both ways.

This "squeaky wheel" approach to Bounty Hunter role-play is a pain in the back-side, frankly. Any one of you could have contacted any of us in private but you chose to do it in the forums and even then not in the thread we had set up for it. And much of it sounds like sour grapes. As a result...



Complaints filed.

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