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Jade Constantine
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Jericho Fraction
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Posted - 2008.04.24 12:49:00 -
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 Originally by: Malcanis
I've repeatedly posted in favour of ideas like transferable/tradable kill-rights and so forth. By all means give the players more options to protect themselves. What I am utterly opposed to are the people who demand that CCP protect their internet pixels, eg with ridiculously draconian penalties, increasing the ISk cost by singling out one particular method of ship-loss for insurance ineligibility, or even just disabling non-consensual high-sec PvP altogether.
I'm absolutely enthused by transferable kill-rights by the way. I love the idea and I think it can become the seed for a radically-enhanced bounty-hunting profession with players able to sell their kill rights via an escrow-auction style interface and bounty hunters able to buy these things for "hunt licenses". I'd go a step further and make the actual "kill rights" function as a location beacon as well to allow hunters to "home in" on the prey and reward the kill with a bounty payment per ship class destroyed + a security level boost.
Homing function would work just until the kill is scored (similar to location agent but automatic update each 5 mins). Bounty award would be x fee based on av market price of ship taken out, sec level bonus based on ship class destroyed too.
Target illegal would be informed when somebody has purchased a hunt license.
Kill rights would only be purchasable by people with +sec ratings.
I'd love to see a score table style readout of Best Hunters in Eve (based on weight of illegal shipping blown up in the course of formal hunt contracts). And taking it a step further one could easily have the concord agency function as a bounty hunting bureau and give out LPs based on tonnage of illegal ships killed and hunt mission completion. LP's buy special bounty hunting boosting modules and sexy assassination technology etc.
This system does a couple of things:
1. Vengeance enters the player arena.
2. Encourages a bounty hunting profession.
3. Makes exciting small unit PVP opportunity.
4. Means illegals get to look over their shoulders more.
5. Lets people kill players for sec-level boosts rather than rats.
As you say Malcanis - this sort of thing is much better than sweeping and draconian changes to rule out suicide ganks or wielding the economic cugel of mucking about with insurance payment.
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Jade Constantine
Gallente
Jericho Fraction
The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2008.04.24 13:08:00 -
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Originally by: LaVista Vista
While I'm EXTREMELY excited by the idea, I have one concern. You say that bounty payment per ship class destroyed, should be made. Are you talking about an ISK payment, or, for instance, Loyallity points? Lets not increase the amount of isk introduced to the game more than needed. Loyallity points are a much better payment, imo.
Hmmm, I'm open for discussion and persuasion on that LaVista. I was thinking ISK payment + LP, on the grounds that these are player ships being blown up and its a bit zero sum to the general economic situation ... ie if you pay a bounty on a tier 2 battleship of 30m isk (for example) thats close to the minimum cost of loss for the target. Exact formula could even be linked to market prices and insurance payment to ensure that that the benefit to the killer cannot exceed the minimum loss to the victim. In that way no extra money actually comes into the game - it just transfers from target to hunter.
I can see if you make it pure LP though it could still be top fun and function as an actual honest-to-goodness ISK sink.
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Jade Constantine
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Jericho Fraction
The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2008.04.24 16:05:00 -
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Originally by: Danton Marcellus
Originally by: Jenny Spitfire
Eve needs a voice like yours in the CSM. You have my vote.
Keep up the god work please. 
WTH Verbal you forgot to limp!
...my name is Kobayashi. I work for Keyser Soze.
(good catch danton [8))
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