Sub Rosa: Provis. Meta Group: bounty brokers

[Anopheles]

This thread is not intended as a place to discuss pvp/griefing.   Just use it for declarations of interest or queries.   Don't query the queries or we'll soon be in a quagmire made out of dead carebears.

 

Time Zone: Any

Language: any (but questions in English please)

Style: political/roleplay/optional combat

 

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If you are willing to be a Sub Rosa Agent state your interest and whether you are in pre alpha or not.   Sufficient interest from pre Alpha or alpha 1 players will see the boards up sooner than my own dazzling entrance.  

 

This depends entirely on it being possible to hire people to kill people which is should be if the game is kept free form.   It may be limited if being in a safe zone prevents violence as well as theft, but still workable. 

 

Sub Rosa agents are (not necessarily) assassins or bounty hunters but rather brokers. If you want to be an assassin and a broker that's fine.  Please note you will not receive any protection from communal acts of revenge from the organization until such revenge can be deemed griefing. (And we'll know it when we see it, but mostly repeated attacks, successful or not, over a shortish period of time, out board harassment, etc).

 

If someone wants someone or something dead then you contact a known Sub Rosa Broker/Agent and request a player/s deathe by bounty hunter.  Payment is to be up front by whatever method of transfer is possible.

 

No coin. No listing.  

 

A listing request should be be sent to any Agent  (contact info will be published once we know how non direct communication is implemented) with the following information.  Missing any of this will lead to delays and or cancelling the contract at the Agent's discretion.  

 

Regardless of your relationship to the issuer no bounty will be paid before the listing appears publicly.

 

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Contracts issued entirely at an Agent's personal discretion.  Limitations of contract are stated at the bottom. 

 

Every Contract will have a unique number (usually Agent's initials/target's initials/contract number in this format xx/xx/0000000).  You can see if it is a genuine contract by comparing it to the public list within 24 hours (agents have busy lives) of issue.  Probably by Google doc or forum post.

 

Where possible you should state contract number before engaging target of contract.

 

Target

 

Bounty offered (minus small listing fee, usually no more than 10%)

 

Last known system

 

Level of danger (good/bad pilot, part of big angry clan, etc)

 

Amount of kills (max 3 with an equal multiplier of bounty - 2 kills means you pay 2x the amount stated above). If you want to pay different amounts for each kill, for some reason,  say so here.

 

Anything else: base destruction/theft of blueprints, etc.  This should be reflected in the size of bounty. 

 

Start date (date of payment received if not stated).

 

If the bounty runs out (2 week limit) you will need to put up the bounty again by paying another non negotiable 10% listing fee or it will be taken down.  Bounties will be paid if bounty is still listed at time of collection. No quibble. 

 

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First confirmed kill/claim gets the chicken dinner.

 

Feel free to join or form other groups (i will be setting up The Code pirate group (from Elite Dangerous not c.o.d.e from eve)) as Sub Rosa will be politically neutral with no alliances beyond non-aggression pacts outside of wars of survival.  We will have no bases, own no territory and pay no taxes) so wars of survival seem unlikely. 

 

Well also have no secrets as contracts including Ultima Contracts will be publicly listed.  Apart from issuer identities which will only be known to the contacted Agent and will be kept confidential. 

 

To prevent griefing by proxy no contract can be for more than 3 kills or longer than 2 weeks max whichever comes soonest.

 

There will be no Contract Tennis.   A victim of a contract may ONCE put a contract on the person who put a contract on them (if known, obviously). At the Agent's discretion multiple contracts on the same target from different issuers may or may not be staggered.

 

No contracts will be accepted from the victim of a contract on the Bounty Hunter who tried to collect on that contract, successful or not or any known Bounty Hunter tied officially to Sub Rosa (yes, this does mean protection from our contracts but, yes, we will know if you are gaming us).

 

If a bounty hunter fails in 3 attempts on a contract (primarily because they are defeated in combat) then he must stop attacking. He may try again one full week from his last failed attempt if the contract is still live.

 

Unless it is specified directly in the contract nothing of the victims must be damaged apart from what is necessary to collect on the contract.  This will principally refer to the ship or single building they are in. No excuses for destroying a 5km diameter base!)

 

No other individuals are to be hurt unless in self defence or to collect another contract except where it neccessary to collect a contract (otherwise being a crewmember would be insta-sanctuary).

 

If it it's not possible to collect the bounty without injury to unconnected parties (same crew on a small or medium ship wouldn't count here, citizens on a liner would) or damage to unconnected property then you should not try.

 

Bounty hunters should obey all local law that is not directly an impediment to collection.  Repercussions from  the disregard of local legislattion are taken at Bounty Hunter's own risk and issuance of contract is not endorsement of the Bounty Hunter's behaviour by Sub Rosa.

 

The following will get a shiny Ultima Contract (all the restraints stated above are removed and the bounty will ve generally larger):

 

Anyone bating or harassing a Sub Rosa Agent, contract target or bounty hunter on any board that is not explicitly in character roleplaying AND is moderated solely by NQ staff on NQ boards. 

 

Anyone killing the target more than the contract permits except in self defence (and going to the area where the target is within 48 hours of successful claim will invalidate self defence).

 

Proven griefers at our discretion.

 

Anyone claiming to be a Sub Rosa agent who isn't signed up.

 

Scamming by Agent's.  Feel free to take a screenshot of a pre confirmation  message -  it's good  practice to see if your contract is acceptable before transferring funds. This also also includes failure to pay out on kill confirmation (make sure you have video/link

ill proof before claiming). Naturally,  this will need to be investigated first.

 

Anyone claiming a bounty with no proof of kill (scamming).

 

The owner sheltering a target in a bubble once notification of contract has been given by a bounty hunter.

 

The owner/s of bubble preventing access to a bounty hunters seeking to collect on a contract once notification of contract as been given or any prevarication or time wasting until contract runs out.

 

Time wasting. Giving and removing a contract several times a day, for example. 

 

Knowingly giving a false impression of the target.  (You said he was a bad pilot in a small group but he's the best pilot in the game and leader of a sprawling multilayer alliance).

 

Issuing Troll contracts (including but not limited to: non game entities (Barney, Dr Who, etc) NQ staff, 'myself',  celestial bodies, abstact nouns (fear, sadness), all Sub Rosa agents, etc).  We may have a public board for japes and tomfoolery.

 

Gaming our system.

 

Other behaviour we would seem sufficiently heinous but which cannot yet be specified. 

 

If you are willing to be a Sub Rosa Agent state your interest and whether you are in pre alpha or not.   Sufficient interest from pre Alpha or alpha 1 players will see the boards up sooner than my own dazzling entrance.  

 

There is no need to give a false name as a Sub Rosa Agent as you are not the issuer of contracts (barring the Ultima punishment contract) nor the initial  supplier of the reward.

 

This may be edited because of the time limit thing, which is why it's a bit sprawling. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Anopheles]

Regardless of how many hunters worked together the bounty will be paid to one nominated person who is then utterly responsible for the fair splitting of said bounty and Sub Rosa will take no further part in this matter unless it should lead to the issuance of new contracts.