Change for bounty hunting

I am against that ofc.

Well the PX policy is to use multiple pilots to make an easy kill on one player, to gaurantee their payment, so I don't see why Arrow would object.

However if this is something that is being discussed, this also means that pirates and police cannot respawn into their RP either.

It's a one way street and the rules are applied equally.

I agree with mara, also when u leave the RP (fleeing) they call u a pussy.... PX is big enough to handle this rule, this means more tactics, that is RP right... not just brainless tax and shoot or collect, or brainless shoot the one with an bounty!

Why do so many have a problem with running away. Personally I prefer make the bounty hunter work for their bounty. I make them chase me all over the map. I prefer to have a good chase then just a simple fight.

And if I try to collect a bounty on SMG Diablo (on suggestion) and there is Picard and Simba online too, I attack him and all 3 goes on me, they kill me and I need to wait 1 hour to collect bounty without a fair chance to kill the target?
Imo. if this new rule really happeneds, then when a merc is trying to get bounty it should be a pvp (1 vs 1)
And if you selfkill, I have to wait 1 more hour too?

Raxors: nobody's calling you pussy if you flee, who says that? Nowone can ban you your escape when mercenaries are behind you

Diablo: When a pirate, you can tax anywhere and anytime, as a merc only when there is a bounty (arena is exception)

Btw. not so many bounties I see when I am online

I always try to make the mercs work for their bounty. That has led to hilarious cases when 3-4 mercs are fighting for half an hour and spending 10 times the amount of the bounty on ammo before someone collects it.

Arrow got a point, but with the '1 hour rule' lets say it still counts and when you attack the bounty we could say that nobody els gets involved. Or we should do this the old fasion way. But woulnd it be more fun to add some tactics to it, its way more fun that way. And c'mon!. I started a Merc clan and I got 1 member under me. So if someone should complain about this rule then it should be me right. See it as a challange. Its not suppose to be easy ya know.

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I attack him and all 3 goes on me, they kill me and I need to wait 1 hour to collect bounty without a fair chance to kill the target?

Sort of the same thing when Mercs attack 2 and 3 v1 to "ensure" your victory. What fair chance is that to YOUR target to defend?

Whoooooooooooooooooooooops!! Shoe's on the other foot.

This is not the first time this has been entertained as a guideline for RP, however it seems that most do not learn from the past.

If any of you noticed, when suddenly players started crying about "enforcing rules black and white", more problems actually started and more and more rules started being discussed.

So be careful what you ask for, because it may end up being more than you are willing to deal with.

if faced with multiple advesaries attempting to acquire one bounty, the best plan is to run until you are among friends that can assist. like Lucy said, if u manage to kill your aggressor, why would u stick around long enough to give them another chance? the smart thing is to run and try to connect with friends.

we manage to do this quite successfully until our great plan fell apart and the merc got a lucky shot. the point is, DbrDbr was well protected by many police.

although this "unwritten" rule makes sense to a point, it's my firm belief that the way we conduct RP is sufficient and we need to have better tactics in place to keep us alive long enough to get help or evade the mercs.
-PipeHitter.

When I enter into an RP situation one-on-one, a personal guideline is generally applied. It is not that different from what was originally proposed here. The practice of having a 20 second RP intro followed by what is essentially continuous PvP until one player gets bored or signs off from the server is unrealistic and, for one who does not like PvP very much, not fun. My personal solution is that if I issue a fine and a pirate kills me, I will try to depart the scene and do something else. On occasions that I refuse to pay a tax and die, or in most other RP situations the same applies. There was a contest of skill and I lost - that's the end of the RP encounter as far as I'm concerned. From there the first opportunity to leave the scene is taken. If this is not possible and I am again killed, F1 is used as a shortcut to someplace else. Things work differently in groups of course, and sometimes I like to go two or three rounds before leaving, but still...

There should not be new rules - the people who play honorably will be recognized by others from their actions (of course, it's all relative - my opportunistic tendencies have come off as dirty and/or cowardly on more than one occasion ^^).

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Originally posted by oMarauder
I think the bounty hunting needs to be modyfied a bit,

blah blah

plan their hunt a bit more accurately instead of:
fly there -> say "defend" -> frag -> if failed, repeat

In the not so recent past - some mercs did not even give you a warning and sometimes you did not know there was a bounty on you..

Saying all that - it may not be bad idea to have a code of conduct for all the different roleplays.

My personal point of view is that a merc should give his target the option to run away - even if 5 mercs are coming together to kill the target -

And this simply means declaring your intentions on system chat when you enter a system or before you undock.

For some reason I find the quick switch, undock and kill not very satisfying and I remember more fondly the long chases and the hunts.

However - in return I would like the cops and pirates to do the same -