You're a corporate pilot. You are simply out doing your job. You're ALREADY drawing a paycheck to go hunt those pirates. So normally, you may NOT claim a bounty, with the following clarification below the quote.
Quote:6. All bounties must specify the persons hired to take the bounty before they can start collecting on it.
If the Bounty poster states that his bounty is open to absolutely EVERYONE, then you can claim the bounty. Otherwise, No.
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
Hunting someone for bounties is allowed if you can treat them as a combat target. Ageira against Rogues, Hackers, Xenos, IC against Hackers, Gaians against any lawful or pirate in Bretonia, GMG against any OC/CO/RM/Hogs in Sigmas/Beta/Eta/Theta, et cetera.
Of course they must still be registered if the board requires it, normal bounty policy and etc.
Using Cannon's quote from 2010 as some sort of proof is rather short sighted. The IDs have been updated since then (for 4.86). Cannon's quote is from a time when almost every other ID said they could collect bounties (Zoner ID did then, doesn't now).
The problem, and one I voiced before 4.86 and doesn't seem to have been fully resolved is the IDs are wishy washy. They should either say what you cannot do or what you can do. Not a mix. That creates room for interptations that can lead to sanctions and/or abuse.
I'm thinking that Dusty's train of thought is most likely the same as the admins, because he was the man that helped re-write the IDs. Plus, it rather makes sense.
IC for example is already going to be killing indy pirates, Rogues, Hackers, and Xenos. Regardless of if there is a bounty on them or not. Collecting a bounty for doing something you already can do is merely gravy on the top.
That is a far cry from an indy pirate ID. The indy pirate ID cannot treat anyone as a combat target. Thus, they'd have to violate their ID restrictions in order to get the bounty.
If you remove the Can fulfill bounty contract & May treat trade vessels as combat targets in pursuit of a bounty contract. from the freelancer ID, it cannot collect bounties because it cannot treat anyone as a combat target. Those two lines give the freelancer ID the ability to treat every ship they encounter as a combat target so long as there is a valid bounty on which they can legally claim.
The pirate ID doesn't have that. Corp IDs do not need it because they already have the ability to treat a select number of IDs as combat targets.
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' Wrote:If that were the case, house militaries could collect them too. But they can't.
Registering is intent to engage. If you are not authorized to register, you are not authorized to engage for the purpose of claiming a bounty.
So far as I know, House military IDs have a line specifically banning the collection of bounties, so you've raised a rather moot point. Then again, I haven't looked closely at one recently - if someone could grab a quote, it'd be much appreciated.
' Wrote:So far as I know, House military IDs have a line specifically banning the collection of bounties, so you've raised a rather moot point. Then again, I haven't looked closely at one recently - if someone could grab a quote, it'd be much appreciated.
So if GMG| makes a bounty on all it's enemies for GMG to collect does it mean from then on GMG ID users need to do forum work for every combat action it performs against it's own lore enemies? This is a topic on the admin table and the above scenario is something I'm wishing to avoid.