Ship Battles and Cowardice

[Arioch]

Originally Posted by Edward Edgemenace

You are 100% incorrect. Pirates that don't have high starting bounty are considerate people that leave the bounty in-game when they leave. Are you saying you can't understand even that?

If you steal bounty, then come right back into SvS, guess what? Your targets are all low-value. If you give away your bounty before you port, then come back, you have at least one easy target when you return.

Don't you remember the official SvS tournament? The PRIMARY tactic to quickly pump up score initially, was to TRADE bounty back and forth directly, 1 for 1. Two ships from one guild, launching from French and Spanish, would meet somewhere where the other 18 ships couldn't interfere much. Then they would race to their other meeting point to sink the other ship, then race back to their first quiet spot and trade bounty again...and again...and again.

If you are foolish enough to steal bounty, you deserve the painfully-slow, minuscule bounties you get.

??? What you are talking about and I have seen it done is artificially inflating your kill score by cheating (YES CHEATING) if you have another ship on the other side and both sides sink each other to inflate their value and bounty that is just plain dirty under handed and cheating as you did not get the bounty by fighting tooth and nail you got it by surrendering your ship to the icy depths every other turn.

How does that it any way shape or form make either crew a formidable opponent?
The purpose of the game in SVS is to sink opposing ships the bounty is an incentive and simply that. My bounty is not artificially inflated by using guinea pig enemy ships to inflate my worth. A lot of the ships that attain high bounties did not EARN them so much as trade them ship to ship.

No in no way shape or form does ANYONE get my bounty unless they chase me to the ends of the earth pry it from my dead fingers and suffer the wrath of my undead spirit coming back from the grave for revenge. I be a pirate and swapping gold like some kids swapping lunch in the playground is not to my liking.

When I retire from SVS my GOLD goes with me. Let others earn their own gold I sponsor no handouts.

Giving away gold LOL that's a real funny one.

[Arioch]

And what is this about STEALING bounty? it is impossible to steal bounty as bounty is evenly distributed for each kill according to how much damage was done by all parties involved.

Even if your pirate leaves SVS and resumes normal playing if someone sinks a ship you fired upon you receive your share of gold no matter where you are as long as your still logged in.

So if a ship receives bounty for a kill then leaves the playing field (port) that gold WAS his to do with as he sees fit. Others may not like it or appreciate it but the fact still is it was HIS gold won fair and square and if ya want it badly enough chase him down prior to him making port and sink him thereby making it YOUR gold once again to do with as you see fit.

Still chuckling over the I sink you . you sink me SVS mentality LOL