Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello, all.
I wanted to suggest that CCP add player deputization to the game.
Deputization would be the Factional warfare of CONCORD, the only difference is, there is no PVE.
Here is what happens:
A player goes to a concord station and decides to get deputized.
If that player is to be deputized, (s)he MUST be in an NPC Corporation
That player has to pay 1000 Concord LP every day of deputization.
upon deputization, that player's safetys get locked to a special "blue state"
while deputized, the empire navies will NOT shoot a player, reguardless of standings.
that player may now go bounty hunting.

Blue safety:
Blue safety is basically a variant of green safety that has more restrictions.
with blue safety, you may only shoot Red NPCs and criminals.
Suspects are limited to EWAR engagement only. no shooting.
blue safety allows the use of the "timer painting" module.
all wrecks that you make are public property (white) to everyone.
no. podding.

Rewards:
for every ship destroyed, you will get LP equal to the ISK value of that ship over 1100. For example, If I down a criminal rupture worth 11,000,000, I'll get 10,000 LP.
LP is split equally among those that do more than 15% of the total damage.
you get that player's whole bounty, reguardless of ship hull worth.


Timer taining:
the timer painter is a module that puts a 10 second weapons timer on the targetted individual.
This is an EWAR module. you can use it on criminals AND suspects.
the timer painter has a 20 second cycle time, and 15 seconds on overheat.

thoughts?

I like the gist of what you are saying, but like everything in this game, players will find a way to abuse it if you don't prevent it. Ultimately, the value of the reward from destroying ships would have to be less than the value of the ship lost. Otherwise, people would just get two accounts and have one farm the other for infinite money. Unfortunately, the value of most ships lost is not that significant, meaning this would ultimately not be a very lucrative source of income. You would probably get just as much from simply selling the dropped modules from a ship. The best you could do is have you earn LP proportional to the value of the hull destroyed, but even that gets tricky, since LP turns into items which have some varying values, as ship hulls vary in value the same way. Even with that though, you could only do it on the difference between what the hull is worth and what insurance pays out, which is even less than the base hull worth. Combined with a general lack of targets, I doubt this could ever be a serious source of income for anyone.

But OP, you can ALREADY shoot criminals in highsec with no penalties.In fact, under your proposal, you'd be able to shoot less badguys, since you can't kill suspects.

Now, other than trolling with the painter thing, why would anyone bother paying the fee?

CONCORD deputies could get a "warpto crime scene" button so they could warp right into a crime scene like Concord npcs do

This is abusable on so many levels I don't even know where to begin...

Two deputies. Each deputy has a painter and takes turns giving a weapons-timer.

When the first painter stops being effective, the other one starts.

• Deputy A paints the Suspect and gives a timer.
• 10 seconds later, the timer ends.
• At this point, Deputy B paints the Suspect and gives a timer.
• Deputy A's painter still has 3 seconds left.
• Deputy A waits for the module to finish, then counts to 7 and re-paints.

I suppose if it's still cycling down then okay.

That three second window is really really small once you factor in connection latency.

[EDIT] For reference, I'm about a second away from the cluster. A full third of the window is used up before my client is even told that my timer expires. I then have to dock/jump within the next second for my command to reach the cluster before another painter can cycle.

I request you read the part about bounties again.