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Posted - 2012.12.12 00:43:00 -
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CCP Punkturis wrote:#77 Posted: 2012.10.11 15:55 Dinsdale Pirannha wrote:I am confused.
I have read the dev blog twice.
I see the part in the blog where the -1 sec status requirement has been removed, so that makes me think anyone in the game, in any sec area, can have a bounty on them, and be a target if someone if some bounty hunter is willing to accept high sec consequences of Concord.
So what is to stop someone like goons from placing a 10 billion isk bounty on someone they dislike, which pays out with 50 billion ISK in ship and implant losses, then restarting the bounty again, until the person they have set the bounty on has had their assets completely wiped out?
I don't see how that's different than just ganking him over and over without the bounty?
And therein is the conundrum.
Eight years I've flown in New Eden space & I don't ever recall having a bounty placed upon my head until last night - a frivolous 100k "***** & giggles" bounty at that. For what? Unknown - most likely because my name appeared above his/hers in the local channel. I certainly had no interaction with them at any point previous to the bounty being placed upon my head.
The issue for me initially was: does having a bounty make me any more of a target for unprovoked attack in high-sec space [without CONCORD intervention] than before? After much research & with some relief, it appears not. It doesn't make me feel any better -- admittedly & oddly enough there's a psychological factor at play here as well.
I'm not happy about these changes -- esp since any Tom/****/Harriet [funny D-ick gets parsed out] can randomly bless you with a frivolous bounty at will or without provocation regardless of your security status. Allow this to go unchecked & I can foresee the situation where a character starts collecting an inordinate amount of 100k "***** & giggles" bounties over an extended period of time, eventually amounting to tens or hundreds of millions of ISK or more [now it becomes a more serious matter & a greater inducement for ganking in high-sec space].
If this is what CCP wants, may I suggest dispense with the niceties of it all & give every capsuleer [& their alts] a 1B ISK bounty, lock up CONCORD for a couple months & let MAYHEM rule supreme in high-sec space until the dust settles [or New Eden is littered with so many corpses that you'd need a snowplow to get anywhere]. I'm sure your subscriptions would take a serious hit.
Since CCP is unlikely to step back on this one, may I suggest a mechanism for 'surrendering' to the authorities [CONCORD et al] to have these nuisance bounties expunged from ones character -- call it "house arrest"?
Perhaps by paying a fine or voluntarily surrendering pilot privileges for a period commensurate with ones security status applied to a base time value per 100k bounty 'forgiven': say where a security ranking of -5.0 applies a 12/6 time period multiplier; a -4.0 applies a 10/6 multiplier; a 0.0 applies a 6/6 multiplier; a 5.0 applies a 1/6 multiplier; & with all others in between being applied proportionally [the time value I was thinking of could be a 24 hr period].
For the one who placed the frivolous bounty, knowing 100% of their ISK goes to CONCORD rather than a bounty-hunter might give them pause to think twice before giving some random capsuleer a frivolous bounty for "***** & giggles" -- esp. to those with high security rankings.
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