second question: We are still discussing this internally. At the moment, it's a no, but we are definitely considering having this information available.

third question: You will not be able to retract bounties.



1: We are using the suspect flag for 2 reasons: One is to allow your fleet to help you with your revenge. Two is that we are trying to move away from single player to single player aggression flags, as you can see with the new crimewatch mechanics.

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.

Think.

Suspect escapes, ships to shuttle, gets killed by friends or alt within ~15 minutes, killright expended.

Also, if the killright is cheap enough just ship to shuttle, activate with alt, blow self up.

The mechanic is terrible and very easily gamed.

We looked closely at this solution in our design process and discarded it. It doesn't work because it doesn't scale - it doesn't support a group of people hunting someone and it creates the problem of someone hogging the kill right for whatever reason.

Making them corp-assignable is not a viable option - we want people to group together, but not necessarily force them to be in corps together (as groups can form and disband much more quickly and freely than corporation membership).

The open market kill right option you mention is also something we discarded for the public kill rights as we want them to be as asynchronious as possible. Once players can tailor more who can buy their kill rights, then that part can move more in the direction you're talking about. But not the public system.

The fact that you keep coming up with these ideas framing them like they're the best things like sliced bread without seeing the limitations in them tells me you're just throwing out ideas on the fly without really thinking about them. That's not genius, that's just lame.

As I said above, there are some technical hurdles for making this happen. If that can be solved, it would be a better solution. Note that this being a better solution doesn't make the Suspect flag option a bad solution, just not as good.

Could you elaborate on this, please? We've run through several scenarios on how this will play out and so far as far as we can tell this will not result in horrible gameplay experience for anyone involved (one the whole, there will be exceptions of course).

I think we can all agree that making EVE a better game is what all of us is after. We might not always see eye to eye on what's the best way to accomplish this, but that's just to be expected Another thing I think we can all agree to is that EVE has a solid core and should be improved in incremental, evolutionary steps.