Bounties

[Dusty Lens]

So if you kill someone the local cops would show as hostile?

Thing is, if you are a merc who is killing folk, and sporting the fl tag, then you will show to most people as neutral. I'm wondering if these generic IDs shouldn't have a requirement for a different tag depending on one's employer.

Not exactly.

Copper.Reaver blows up Kruger ID ship = RFP get knocked down to red.
Copper.Reaver blows up Liberty Navy ID ship = LPI get knocked down to red.

That's the idea in a nutshell. Police are chosen over corporations due to empathy issues. For example if Copper.Reaver was hostile to Kruger then any Kruger NPC that wandered by would set off the entirety of creation, even if this is not appropriate.

This would either be applied only to the generic IDs or balanced with our current rep ninja.

While I personally feel that there is room in Discovery for mercs to "get away with it" the system of oversight in that regard is... Cumbersome. If not entirely ineffectual... Faction right 5s are rarely employed and there is very little con to balance out the pro in regards to mercs opening up on various targets.

This is just one of the many reforms I would like to see applied to the bounty system in order to balance it out a tad.