SurrenderMonkey
Space Llama Industries
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Posted - 2017.06.07 15:34:25 -
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Donnachadh wrote:
Yet another sad statement about your ability to problem solve with regards to bounties in this game. Also a sad statement that you are so used to convoluted mechanics that you cannot see an extremely simple solution. So let us set up a basic bounty situation as an example so we need three characters we will simply call them "A", "B" and "C".
"A" wants to place a 20 million ISK bounty on "B" so off they go to the nearest bounty window in game. Bounty window says sure you can do that, and automatically transfers 22 million ISK from "A"'s wallet. 20 million to cover the bounty payout and 10% of the bounty amount as an ISK sink we will call the registration and licensing fee. "C" finds "B" in a system somewhere and kills "B"collecting the 20 million ISK bounty.
If "A", "B" and "C" are all controlled by the same player that players has not profited from the bounty, in point of fact it has actually cost them 2 million ISK. Why yes you are correct "C" as a character did profit from the bounty and to be honest I do not care, see I am not worried about which character profits from the bounty, I am only concerned about the PLAYER behind that character. In this case the PLAYER that controls all three characters could simply transfer the ISK from "A" to "C" and save themselves the 10% fee in the process.
This has to be one of the most spectacular failures to understand the problem I have ever witnessed.
First of all, the self-claiming problem does not have (and has never had) anything to do with someone placing the bounty on themselves. This A, B, and C are all the same person scenario you've dreamed up and subsequently "solved"? Yeah, aside from yourself. nobody has ever suggested that this was a problem. You really knocked the stuffing out of that straw man, champ.
Quote: But wait what it you Daichi controls "B" and "C" you may ask. Well glad you did ask because this does not matter. While you are technically profiting from killing your own character the ISK has come from the wallet of character "A". If you have a friend or corp mate that is controlling "A" and they want to continually pay the 10% fee instead of simply transferring the ISK from them to you I have no problem with that. And if "A" is controlled by someone you do not know then I have no problem with you profiting from killing your own character because it is not something you can do on a continual basis.
So "A" places a bounty on the head of his enemy, "B". "B" claims the bounty on himself with his alt, "C", walking off with the cash.
Instead of placing a bounty, "A" has literally just gifted his enemy some money, and you think this is an improvement over the status quo?
This would certainly allow people to hunt bounties for profit, only in the more literal sense that they're hunting bounties - as in, the bounty placement itself, and not the person the bounties have been placed on.
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