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Nevyn Auscent
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Posted - 2016.07.02 21:46:57 -
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Can't imagine how this would affect freighter pilots with their 1-2 bil ships+cargo's at all..... Surely couldn't be abused.
I.E. No.
Bounty hunting can not ever be a mechanic to bypass concord, or it just becomes open season on industrialists (more so than it already is) |
Nevyn Auscent
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Posted - 2016.07.03 22:14:02 -
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Or you can just use the forums to work as a bounty hunter rather than trying for force a terrible game mechanic through.
Because it won't be a 'long hard fight'. It will be 'I'm a freighter pilot and I got bountied then ganked, and my friends couldn't do anything, this game supports griefing, I quit' |
Nevyn Auscent
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Posted - 2016.07.04 06:49:36 -
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baltec1 wrote:
If you get a 100 mil bounty on your head it stands to reason that you did something to deserve it.
With this mechanic it would simply be flying a freighter as a reason though. Since you could just go nuts freighter hunting with this ignoring concord. Even as it stands now it can be as simple as daring to disagree with someone with too much isk to throw around.
I.E. 'Breathing' is a good enough reason for some people to bounty.
So yeah, no. No mechanic like this is ever going to be practical without being abusable to the high heavens. |
Nevyn Auscent
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Posted - 2016.07.05 07:57:40 -
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baltec1 wrote:
Its rather simple, you put a limit on the number of targets you can go for. If you cannot see who you are targeting or get accurate info on the worth of the bounty then you cannot use bounty hunting to get around concord to gank freighters. By the time to find your target you would have spent several billion minimum.
So what if people randomly dump a bounty on you? At 100 mil before you even show up and with a warning that someone has picked up your bounty its not like you are going to be shot at 24/7 with no warning.
And with those limits it's back to being a useless frustrating mechanic since you have no idea if your target even still plays, let alone does anything.
And if you have to put that level of limitation on something, you know it's a bad idea to begin with.
N.B. no complaints about locator agents telling you if they are online when you run the search. |
Nevyn Auscent
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Posted - 2016.09.18 03:07:20 -
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Christopher Mabata wrote:What if rather than making bounties bypass CONCORD laws these licenses instead allowed you to collect More of the bounty in a kill?
So say the platinum license i saw someone talking about allows you to collect, i don't know 80% in one go? 90%? whatever the figure may be. (Not going with 100% because bounties are meant to be an ISK sink IIRC)
I just see using bounties as a way to circumnavigate CONCORD ROE becoming too routinely abusable given how crafty players are with the meta.
The 20% they are currently at is almost break even for someone killing their own alts ships to clear a bounty. Any higher and you can make a profit clearing your own bounty. |
Nevyn Auscent
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Posted - 2016.09.24 04:37:58 -
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Marcus Furius Camillus wrote:
I honestly have no idea how this mechanic became such an unworkable mess....BUT, they should either fix it (preferably how I just pointed out) , Or get rid of it, because it is pointless, and ineffective right now.
Because people wanted an unscammable in game mechanic. Rather than just doing contracts privately. Also your method again allows people free hunting season on anyone they want, which isn't ok, and is an abusable mess. |
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