Jawas
The Scope
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.12.08 03:07:00 -
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Karloth Valois wrote:Its a player dominated game and what other players think of you should be more important than what NPCs think of you.
But this just reduces bounties to the level of a joke. Someone put a bounty on a random player for a laugh, why does that show others what other players think of you?
Karloth Valois wrote:Just because you dont shoot innocent miners doesnt mean someone doesnt want you dead...I've war dec'd whole alliances just because one of their members was 'a bit of an idiot' in public channels. Why should bounties be any differance?
Because a bounty is something that denotes that the pilot has done something to earn that bounty. Like I said, the bounty placed on a random pilot just for giggles makes it totally meaningless. Also, if newer players start getting ganked for absolutely no reason in highsec, it's going to result in a lot of players unsubbing because it just turns highsec into another lowsec. If you want to kill someone, just place a bounty on them and it's OK, you'll get the bounty back when you kill them. I can really see that going down well, youll have only hardcore PVP players and nobody else in game. Cowards will target new players in highsec this way because they are easy targets. Eve wouldn't be able to survive that sort of revenue loss because there are not enough hardcore PVPers to keep the game funded alone.
In reality, this is nothing less than legalising a griefing tactic. Place bounty, kill, recover isk placed as bounty, place another bounty, wait for player to undock and kill his next ship. repeat until player quits and then move onto the next player. The problem is that those who quit will probably unsub as well.
The bounty should only be able to be placed on someone who another person currently has kill rights on, not necessarily placed by the person who has the kill rights, or one who has killed too many people in their career. If you attempt to place a bounty on someone who has not, you should get a message telling you that they have done nothing to warrant it. Your personal opinion of them being an idiot on chat is irrelevant, you have the ability to block them on chat, so use it.
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