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A mercenary licence also allows you to collect public bounties placed on other characters. Public bounties are placed on characters by using the “/setbounty” command in the chat window. Private bounties are not permitted. Mercenaries may attack without warning any player with a bounty on them. There are limits to the value a bounty can be set by the characters level (see below).

If i understand you correctly then the answer is no.

There is no longer such a thing as a private bounty, in whatever name you put it. To many mercs would attack people and just say it was a private bounty, but there is really no way to confirm it. They either have to be through the bounty system, or posted openly here on the forum.

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can we be hired as private assassins? that would be a great part of the merc RP

tread very carefully.

private stuff is dodgy
I certainly support hiring mercs for defence and escort tho especially if there are dangerous trade routes to travel

Private bounties were removed exactly bcs it did alot BS and ppl who were destroyed such way had almost no chance approve if was merc acting by his own (OORP) or for someone else. And yesterdays fight in New Tokyo showed that also for mercenary is alot fun.

horatio's ego: little patience. Soon will be again time for smugglers and with this many opportunities for us mercenaries.

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Soon will be again time for smugglers and with this many opportunities for us mercenaries.

I'm watching you..

In short, the only reasons (for a merc) to attack another player in RP is:
- in self defence, after the other player fired on you.
- in defence of a transport/another player you've been hired by, after that transport got attacked or after a RP case got started (as when a pirate tells "hey you transport, pay this tax for my 24 children" and you were hired to defend that transport, you can start firing on that pirate, same for police). Note: Such hiring are also public not private, so the players in the system, or affected by this situation has to know about it. It's usually enough with telling in system channel that player xy hired you for reason xyz.
- when another player has a bounty on his head, it's possible to attack with no warn from behind, then face the consequences (he may counterattack/chase you a bit as self-defence, probably with friends as well ) or to call out for his bounty like a fine/tax, as warn before attacking. Here a merc could also have the option to ignore the player's bounty and let him live after getting paid by that player to stay alive, like a tax/fine. It doesn't conflict with the current merc rules.
- when that other player is target of a public contract with a limited duration (nothing like "indefined" or "forever", and neither larger than a month, as they break the anti-driving off the server set of rules), which has to be posted here on the forum, with it's details.

Out of RP, of course a merc can ask another for duel and with both agreeing to it, start fighting as much as they want.

My favourite phrase when I was a merc and there was a big fight was "A lonely merc is flying around, looking for job..." and then there was always Abras who was hiring me to kill some cops :3 ... Unless the cops were faster of course. Being a merc is a fun job, just include a little bit more of a speech and you will earn amazing success

Yup Shogun, being communicative helps a lot. Hiding the contracts and even yourself from other players, won't help, and it never did.

@Shock: It's in the rules, some you should already know. If something is mistaken, feel free to correct me

Impossible in my eyes, otherwise we're opening a door of flaws in the RP and possible exploit via it; such as people randomly killing other people saying that they've been hired while they aren't really. However, it might be possible, if the merc posts a RP thread on the forums right after the kill and the man who hired him confirms it. And even this doesn't sound doubtless.

Horatio, mercs had that option and failed the trust they had.

At least for a while, let it as it is, and also because OP will not change the rules site anytime soon, he don't have to keep editing the rules back and forward again for a suggestion.
Another reason to keep it as it is, is that, your victim knows who's the responsible of getting him killed, what's the worst thing that can happen ? That you get a bigger pay and new job to make your old contracter, your victim, and for more $$ This way you can never be blamed for killing somebody.

btw mercs and assasins are different things Assasins don't go in public to transport things for others, or to defend weak ppl

hmmm, no use. You can make public hiring be/look like the private ones, by telling the affected people/victims the needed info by a private channel.

The rules are settled, stick to them for now

Just something to add here, When you are hired to fight for anyone, you must make it public that you were hired by whichever faction/player, it may be. Can cause some confusion like it did in NT yesterday.

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im just thinking private assassinations would be a great part of RP

in real life a mercenary doesnt need to say who his employer is, who his target is, he just goes and kills who he's been paid to kill.

so assansination as part of merc RP, i think it would be great

OP! MAKE IT SO

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It WAS part of the Merc RP and it was abused. Hence the reason for the rule change.

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hmmm, a new RP maybe?

and im sure mercs didnt mess it up, PX did

Nope. The whole merc RP messed up if you ask me. I remember a freelance merc a while back said someone ordered a 10 kill contract on me, although the the merc was the same person who invaded our system and I killed him.... I don't think that was a "contract" but revenge and hiding behind the rules. So that's why assassination would never ever happen for mercs again, unless something changes completely which is highly unlikely.

listen up m8 u all a bunch of pus***** px didnt abuse the system you cops did im tired of you whining crap. And LP 50 U didnt mind when we were fighting the cops with px and you were laughing at the cops because they were dying. Listen m8 I just but a black ops hit list out but it was closed. what am im supposed to call it my love for cops list? LP 50 abuses his powers on the forums and i think that needs to stop. We cant have priviate contracts so i posted on the forums and now u cant do that wtf are u saying they can only collect bounties? I'm f tired of the f cheaters in this f game so what f we suppose to do are we suppose to hand write it on shit paper and give it to ppl like lp 50? I guess this game is for the girls, You all wack jobs in my book.