we're going to make it so you can't place bounty on inactive characters

I like that you still hate him though after all this time

(I just realized I only replied to the first question)

We have been actively discussing this for a while. This is one of the key reasons for the dev blog, we are asking you guys for your thoughts.

And I see more and more people ask about this. So that is good to see.

But from what I've heard, it is trivially easy for null-sec dwellers to earn 5.00 security rating by going ratting in belts for a couple of hours, and if so that would make it a bad idea to have any kind of bounty ratio influenced by Security Status.

I think 20% is fine. When I thought about it half a week ago or so, that was my own conclusion: 20% of Total Induced Grief Value.

Or 15% or 25%, but I opted for 20%, which I think is good.

And with 100k minimum it's nearly free. And this way you can exactly find out who is active and who's not.

Actually, I just did the "math". If you take the square root (X^0.5) and multiply by 20, then the "discover fee" on a 50 billion bounty is a bit over 4 million. So probably an exponent other than 0.5, and certainly a multiplier larger than 20, if anything like my suggestion gets implemented.

I don't find thinking hard.

2: The owner of the kill right sets the price. If your "friend" (alt) is willing to pay that price, then your old victim just got some money back to compensate him for being the target of your undoubtedly heinous criminal act.

Finding out the bounty issuer could start with a flat fee. Say it's 5m ISK.

The Bounty Issuer then gets a message saying that a request has been made to reveal their name. If they don't want their name revealed, they can pay an increased price of their choosing (minimum 5m ISK above the price offered by the other person.)

Ummm....big difference.
Now goons can place an X on someone's back, and ANY ganker, ANYWHRE, ANYTIME, can nail someone.
This essentially makes every ganker in space a member of the Ministry of Love.

Now, I am waiting for people to say , "Don't fly what you can't afford to lose", but imagine this scenario:

Goons hate someone. They place a 10 billion bounty on them. That person is flying a freighter, somewhere in high sec. The ship has a load of say, 700M, which is well below the usual safe threshold of 1 billion to make it profitable to gank a freighter. At current prices that ship is worth about 1.5 billion. That makes the payout of the bounty about 300M, plus the potential payoff of the payload of the freighter makes the gank profitable.

Or another scenario. Same victim wants to fly a Marauder in missions. Hull cost is about 800M. Now, you tack on T2 rigs, some faction stuff, and you can easily hit 2 billion in value. The bounty payout is 400M, and you can gank a mission boat in 0.5 space with 2-3 Tornados. Suddenly, the mission runner who usually is ignored by gankers, will ALWAYS be attacked.

With the existing system, the average ganker would say, look at a PvE BS and say, nah, since I am getting no payout, and unsure the nice modules will drop, so not worth it.
Now, not only is that person flagged as they stroll through the gate, ALL gankers will pounce, since the bounty guarantees that at worst they will recover their losses, and the modules are gravy.

And this is good for the psychopaths in the game.
Someone who has done nothing in the game to warrant an attack can be griefed right out of the game "legally".
I am not surprised the CSM is onboard with this, given the vast majority are the null sec zealots this was targeted to appease.

You should keep one of these on the arm of your chair while you do that. Cat hair in your martini is a small price to pay for ambiance.

there's a show pilots with bounty's option (which currently only works in the overview, not in local list - but we're fixing for the expansion) but we want to add an option to show pilots with buyable kill rights in there too, with some specific icon and color (I already mentioned pink, I WANT PINK)

(I had already replied to this question here - does nobody notice my posts??????????)

there is already such an option, it's off by default

but it's not configurable