A simple question which will likely devolve into pages and pages of flames, rants, and general fun, before finally getting locked without the question ever having been completely and fully answered by the Admins:
Are people with IDs which allow collecting bounties allowed to KoS bountied traders for the purpose of collecting said bounty, assuming they're not flying anything larger than a gunboat?
If so, isn't this a bit of a loophole in the 'OMG protect the traders!' Act of 2007?
Yes but what was "done" to smugglers was not that they'd be killed on sight, but demanded to drop their illegal cargo, and be destroyed if they refused after repeated warnings.
As the contract stated, auxiliary military forces.
Bountying all lawful traders of Sirius isn't the same thing.
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' Wrote:They did it to smugglers, so we can do it to traders.
hooha.
Smuggler, trader, same thing. 'Contraband' is different depending on what House or faction you talk to, where you got the commodity, and where you're taking it.
' Wrote:Bountying all lawful traders of Sirius isn't the same thing.
I'm not talking about anything so drastic (or so flagrantly OORP) as putting a blanket bounty on ALL traders, but rather on factions putting a bounty on all traders of a specific other faction, or including trader vessels in their blanket bounty on that faction.
' Wrote:but rather on factions putting a bounty on all traders of a specific other faction, or including trader vessels in their blanket bounty on that faction.
As it was once said to me, if they carry the ID of the faction bountied, they can be killed just for the bounty just like military vessels. Of course not with ships bigger than gunboats.
And also, the bounties can span carriers of specific cargos, like we did with cardamine and slaves.
Now I am not sure if it involves directly killing them or just having to first demand the cargo.
Admin wordeys would be nice.
Edit: Oh no no no, Drake.:PI wasted my 3000th post on this topic, while I wanted to make it a silly speech or something.:D
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