Jacob Mei
Slacker Industries Limited
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Posted - 2008.03.25 15:04:00 -
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The following may or may not be a problem:
The only significant issue I see this being a problem of is that it could create "Bounty Farmers".
There are bountys out there that are litterally in the billions, imagine how much that would translate into RL currency if isk sellers got ahold of it?
I see this situation happening:
Pirate A with a 50 million bounty is flying around in low sec doing his thing. Suddenly he sees an easy target happyly mining a belt. He flys over, destroys the ship and pops the pod. Easy target turns out to have been chinese bait. bait "sells" his kill right to his fellows in powerful ships with powerful characters and they hunt down Pirate A, find him and kill him.
Considering that it only takes a level 3 or 4 agent to track someone down in the entire galaxy no one would be safe unless they are constantly on the move. Further more, this would be hard pressed if not impossible to determine if it were isk miners or not (considering that there are many isk miners who have hulks it is obivous that there is a system in place that allows the money maker characters to have some distance from the money seller accounts, this would be no diffrent).
Situation B:
Big battle taking place. Some of the individuals have bounties on their heads and are using field weaponry (FOF's, Smartbombs, etc). Suddenly, a flock of shuttles or throw away ships warp in and start aggressively orbiting these players. They get hit and killed in the cross fire. Suddenly though, Player B with a bounty on his head has several contracted kill rights on his head and the chinese money collectors are hot on his trail to collect the reward on his head.
I think that unless those two situations can be resolved that transfering bounties between players will not happen.
1. Isk sellers would quickly capitalize on such a new feature. because the bounty system lists the top 50 or so bounty heads, the ISK sellers would have a list of good hits merely a station equiped with a bounty office away. whats worse, it would be next to impossible, in my opinion, to track them down as they would be using completely legal means.
2. It would be a grief tool of epic proportions. Got someone you dont like? trick him or find out when hes using a smart bomb, get killed and then put a bounty on his head.
I may be completely talking out of my butt here but I really think that unless there is some sort of system of control on a way a kill right is transfered that being able to sell or trade kill rights would be the perfect game mechanic for isk sellers.
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