IMHO, I think that the only way to balance the PvP playing field is to allow players to actually hire bounty hunters. This way if a guy or clan gets a repartition with PvP, thus pissing off a lot of people, then they should expect to see bounty hunters coming after them. The details of how to hire a bounty hunter I’ll leave that to another decision.

Why not hire PC bounty hunters? It would promote some interesting roleplaying, for sure.

Whoa, ****er is a censored word?

I'm only level three, but I would seriously consider being a PC bounty hunter in the future.

The trouble woul dbe how to enforce payment and keep people from getting scammed.

the only way would be to pk the person into paying up which starts the whole problem over again, because then they would hire bounty hunters against the bountyhunters

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nah, i'm sure the true bounty hunters would have some code of honor...

Not to mention true bounty hunters would soon develop a reputation as well...

Oh dear lord Nog - you never offered to duel any of us. In fact, if I recall correctly, you were shouting at us from the relative safety of Gas Miner Naha in Sigma-13, claiming how you could "beat us" when you got a better ship. Seriously, if you need to post this crap on forums it should at *least* be true, but personally I think none of this clan-war stuff should leak over into the forums. Flaming on Elite is fine though

what ever dude...if he wants to make his voice heard it's his choice.

Just love to hear this "honor among PKers" stuff in this thread. Actually, it makes me sick. What could have been a great multiplayer game has been hijacked by kids who "just can't stop laughing" when they waste someone else's freetime.

Want to duel? Fine. Want to be a child, well, there's no one there to stop you. The Freelancer Anti-Gang Squad doesn't exist. All that's left is to wish you well and many happy times ahead as you alienate gamers who have lives and only a few hours to commit to online games. Kill them. Enjoy it. Laugh your lives away.

And I'll be a newbie forever playing on disrespected servers were people treat each other with the respect they deserve.

To some of you, it's just a game. To some of us, it has the potential to be more. When we reach for that potential, some cheater comes along and steals everything we've worked towards and kicks us while we're down.

Be proud of the nobility you PKers display. Continue to wear it as a badge of honor. Laugh, joke, smile in the face of your weakling opponents. And never, ever question the morality of what you do, the honor of that person you portray online.

- Silent Jay, a newbie through and through...no sense in fighting the truly immature.

P.S. Sorry if that sounded overly harsh. I just lost 5 hours of my life last night that I can never, ever get back. Someone "honorably" PK'd me. This game is just as stupid as Diablo.

Funny thing is that Nog is just pissed annd is making things up, cus
1. the only beta tester in NEO is me
2. I NEVER use nomad guns
3. i cant even ****ing spell expiierienced
4. i dont go off screamin i have better skils than others becouse i beta tested... far from it, i know ppl that have played for 2 weeks and whoop my ass, all i know from beta testing is base and planet locations
5. you where badmouthing us from naha in sig13

And then if what? if we want to kill your little valkyre with some sabres and eagles we can, its a free server. And untill a rule is made that i can not kill whiners named Nog in valkyries i will continue to do so. I havnt broken a rule yet on Elite and i will not do so, and im not that kind of a bastard, i dont kill ppl below lvl 20 and i dont kill traders at all. And if ppl just give me a friendly hello i leave them alone. Sure i make ppl pay me to dock or to launch, but that just brings more fun and challenge to the game, becouse teh AI is to easy.

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Silent Jay are you inbred? Cuz it looks to me like you can't read. If you say this game can have more potential and by that you must mean to feel like you are actually in that universe then what the F*** you expect.

If it is suppose to be like you are there, then expect your ass been blown up (or attempted) by the scumm of the universe (A.I. or Human controlled). They're terrorist in real life, well you can sure as hell expect them in a game about killing sh*T. Now that is why they were discussing a Bounty Hunters guild, where players can be hired by other players to protect them, assassinate, ect...and yes Bounty Hunters exist in real life.

And i was just mentioning that the i'm sure the bounty hunters would have some code of honor not to kill each other.

And when you say you wasted 5 hours of you life, when someone killed you. it doesn't matter yo, because if you want to put it that point of view...you are wasting your life away everytime you start up a game if you succeed in the game, or fail.

You know, one of the more fun facets of this game IS multiplayer - if done correctly. I've seen more evidence of this on Elite than on any other server. There will always be the exception of some snert that kills newbies for 'fun', though. You can't avoid that save having a passworded server that doesn't have the password publicly posted, but what's the fun of that since you'll end up with the same rehashed, old, minimal player base?

It absolutely is possible to envelop roleplaying and Freelancer together, even for PKing. The thing is, when on a multiplayer server, you can come up against a great many more opponents, opponents that don't fly in identical patterns and are much more challenging. Playing a particular role, especially with others who are also playing roles, can be a great deal of fun.

It's not just Bounty Hunters that are roleplayed PKers, either. There could be Mercenaries, PIrates, Freighter Escorts, Navy Pilots, oh look, most of these roles are ALREADY IN THE GAME. It shouldn't matter whether or not there is crappy game AI or a player behind the ships. Immerse yourself a little, and have fun.

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Back up the truck here! Someone explain this one to me before you all keep slinging drama around.

this is a good thread dont start it down the road of flame war of it will get locked, just something to keep in mind. On the topic at hand: if you dont want to have a chance of being killed at all then dont play on a pking server, this goes for people of all levels including newbs, you have to have the guts to play on one and know that if you do it is everyone elses right to kill you at whatever level you are, with the exception of Libert Space in Elite.

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