New Rule Addendum

[chovynz]

I don't believe this rule stops BHs from attacking Gamma/Alpha. BH tag/id/npc faction allows random attacks on pirates.

This rule only serves to hamper your average merc from doing a job, in order to try and curb 'pvpabuse'

It is supposed to stop BH "abusing" their intended RP by shooting and killing
people who dont have a bounty, but as a disguise the BH claim "you had a bounty on your head."

And I'll reiterate, while I think the intent behind teh ruling was ok, I
think that it needs to be reworded so that legitimate bountys both
ingame and on these forums can be taken up and collected.

Otherwise the current statement will completely stop all bounty
collecting for fear of sanctions. It needs clarifying that ingame
bountys are just as legitimate.

Spur of the moment bounties do happen. And if they have a ss of
the bounty they intend on collecting, or have collected, then it should
be ok. In addition to that, saying "only forum bounties" is a little weird since, there are
a few forum threads with open bounties for any unlawful / lawful ship in certain places.

It is also mentioned only in the sanction thread. if they make this
ruling it needs to be added to the rules section as well.

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[Jihadjoe]

I have to say this new rule has made merc roleplay much harder.

My merc Rawshank had an extended RP with a fair few people with regards to getting long term contracts, and some of it was conducted entirely over forum PM. Does this mean that the contract we negotiated with this is now null and void? I hope not.

Mercs have little enough to do as it is, without this rule plreventing them from being paid for individual fights, or contructing contracts in private.

Having never engaged anyone without a prior contract, or attacking without prior RP or reason with my merc, I find this extremely restrictive.

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[chovynz]

I have pmed several admins about this thread so that they are aware of it's existence.
Hopefully we'll see them in here soon.

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[Fellow Hoodlum]

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=26712

I thought it was made clear, if you are happy there is a bounty in force, then you would have absolutely
nothing to worry about. If you are just working for the highest bidder, then you have nothing to worry
about either ...
As was said before, this is to curtail the 'bounties' that have nothing whatsoever to do with roleplay, and
appear to be just of a personal nature, or the old 'Red is Dead Syndrome' attacks.
Relying on you to use your best judgement in this, if you are happy with your situation, then so are we.
If you think after killing someone, you can say to justify it ... "Oh there was a bounty on you," then you
may find your guns repossessed. If you are genuinely roleplaying, what is the problem ?

Hoodlum

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[El Nino]

I like this clarification... it gives opportunities to roleplayers and opportunity for admins to sanction those that don't roleplay...

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[Muleo]

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=26712

I thought it was made clear, if you are happy there is a bounty in force, then you would have absolutely
nothing to worry about. If you are just working for the highest bidder, then you have nothing to worry
about either ...
As was said before, this is to curtail the 'bounties' that have nothing whatsoever to do with roleplay, and
appear to be just of a personal nature, or the old 'Red is Dead Syndrome' attacks.
Relying on you to use your best judgement in this, if you are happy with your situation, then so are we.
If you think after killing someone, you can say to justify it ... "Oh there was a bounty on you," then you
may find your guns repossessed. If you are genuinely roleplaying, what is the problem ?

Hoodlum

The way this rule is written now, intentional or not, means that, when Asno Muleo hired Rawshank to kill Bretonians, with some 30 minutes of ingame RP, when XO hired my merc as a personal hitman/body guard, and PMed me weekly targets to take out, when I hired Baconsoda's merc to attack Benitez during the Corsair minicivil war, all that which was awesome fun, good RP, all of it is now considered illegal, simply because it wasn't posted publicly on the forums. -That-'s the problem here.

Sure the ongoing BH rampage needs curbing, but not at the cost of the awesome fun that properly flown mercs can be.

[mwerte]

It seems that this is already covered under

6.6 PvP combat is allowed only on roleplay basis. The pilot who is attacking must scan for an ID prior to the attack. Relying on general reputation status (red/neutral/green) without scanning for the ID is not allowed.

Non-RP attacks are considered PvP abuse and are sanctioned accordingly.

This just needs to be enforced a little more judiciasly. As it stands it's fine.

Edit: I believe you can tell the difference between a legitimet bounty, and someone who is just shooting to shoot (a la Kuun-Lan). We aren't the IRS here, we don't have to blindly follow rules and protecals, we have initiative and flexability.

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[Fellow Hoodlum]

Mule, trouble is with those situations mentioned, is that no one else is aware of your roleplay ... It is
yours and and your hitman's only. Time for PMs means time for an RP thread really. Is that such a big
deal ?
Keeps everyone else in the loop, and enables larger involvement for everyone playing on the server.

Hoodlum

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[Laowai]

Mule, trouble is with those situations mentioned, is that no one else is aware of your roleplay ... It is
yours and and your hitman's only. Time for PMs means time for an RP thread really. Is that such a big
deal ?
Keeps everyone else in the loop, and enables larger involvement for everyone playing on the server.

Hoodlum

Would an Ingame screen shot of In game Pm's suffice as evidence that prior Public (by that i mean involving more than one player) RP was undertaken?

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[Muleo]

Mule, trouble is with those situations mentioned, is that no one else is aware of your roleplay ... It is
yours and and your hitman's only. Time for PMs means time for an RP thread really. Is that such a big
deal ?
Keeps everyone else in the loop, and enables larger involvement for everyone playing on the server.

Hoodlum

For an assassination, why the hell does everyone have to know about it? Now you're just looking for excuses to keep the rule in place. Please, look at it, and consider adding "Forum RP or ingame RP" as elligible for bounties.