Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I was just wondering what people thought of this idea. That if you have a kill right on someone and their bounty is above x amount you could sell it to the bounty office, or a regional bounty office where players wishing to fill the role of a bounty hunter could go to pick up bounty's that they could hunt in High sec and beyond.

I actually like this idea. IIRC the bounty office doesn't do much at the moment other then show the top 10 bounties and the top 10 bounty hunters. While it's true that killrights can be sold and the like already, creating a specific marketplace for it (other then the crime and punishment forum) would certainly facilitate the service better. You could even add access to a locator agent (if the station has one) to the screen. Congratulations, you now have a functional bounty office.

+1 for things that improve the bounty system.

i think i get it. sort of like a list of people with killrights so we can look them up and locator agent them and then activate killrights.. right?

I really like this idea

Unless it's been changed and i'm completely unaware of said change, killrights cant be sold at all.

You can make them (exclusively) available to people in your corporation, to everyone and iirc your alliance but you can't contract, trade or actually sell them or give an individual or entity outside of the above three exclusive rights to collect said killrights.

So I personally support the OPs idea, the added benefit of having killrights 'sold' to the bounty office being that you could actively choose and hunt them, rather than hope you'll run into them.

+1

Idea needs polish but I like this.
The problem with killrights is that people that have them mostly aren't available to be shot at. (Ganker alts and pirates that stay out of highsec).

The basic idea of connecting kill rights with the bounty office is really good. It's still debatable how to actually implement this, but still, very good concept.

First issue when making a system like this is abuse and how to stop it.

Previously problem was that if you placed a hefty enough bounty on anyone they would pop an empty clone with their alt ... and this same problem still persists or at least lurks somewhere near by.

However there could be system where you would buy up the bounty on any character and gain exclusive kill rights to that person.
this would prevent alt abuse but it wouldn't prevent the system being you used for placing bounties on anyone in Jita and then going to town ... Unless you cannot 'buy up' bounties placed by your self ... and we're heading back again to alt problem.

So until 'alt problem' is solved there cannot be a truly viable bounty system *ever* in EVE.

I think it can, but needs some changes to the system.
We are talking about 2 different issues, the existing bounty system and the existing killright system.

So set aside the bounty system, and focus just on the killright system.

How about this:
Someone has a killright. They give it to the bounty office, and the player sets the value on the killright.
The bounty office then advertises all the killrights, and their value.
Bounty hunters can search available killrights by player name, or value.

The bounty hunter then takes out an "option" on a killright, and has exclusive rights to exercise that option to exercise that killright for some hard period of time, maybe 12 hours, or 24. Now, to avoid someone taking their alt and popping themselves, or just constantly protecting themselves by grabbing the options, there would be a fee based on the value of the killright that has to be paid every time an option is taken up. Could be 5%, maybe 10%. The number would have to be nailed down.

If the bounty hunter "exercises the option" in the period he holds the exclusive option, he gets the value of the bounty, up to say, 50% of the value of the ship and pod he killed. If there is still some bounty money left over from the original killright, that goes back to the bounty office as a killright that still exists on the original ganker. If the bounty hunter does not exercise the option to kill in the specified time, the option expires and the whole killright pops back up on the bounty office boards.

This has a few effects:
1. For a ganker to protect himself, it is going to cost a constant chunk of change to keep buying an option on your own killright.
2. Gankers will hate the idea, but by using a number like 50% of the value of a kill, one gank may result in several bounty hunters coming after a ganker in succession.
3. The 50% number (or whatever seems fair) means that a ganker cannot profit from buying up the killright on himself and exercising it with an alt.