Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Meh, who cares.

If this ever goes through, just have the checkbox to auto-decline ransoms right next to the auto-decline of duels.

This way I won't miss checking it.

--Gadget... goin' down fightin'!

Good idea, I like it. It'll help piracy a lot a think, because it'll legitimize ransoms a lot more. People will accept ransoms more often because they wont be as afraid of Pirates reneging on their honor and just killing them anyways. CCP needs to perfect/preserve/protect all of both the intentional/set up and emergent professions to make this game work.

Agree with everything you've said, however this whole system is to streamline that process of actually demanding the ransom moreso than it is to ensure the victim gets home safely. The ransom itself becomes a logged event. Pirates who take their reputation seriously like those you mention can see a link to that log if they choose to honor that ransom beyond the terms agreed. No checking intel channels or comms or whatever. If you're a pirate that chooses to garner a "free passage" agreement longer than the short warpout invuln from the ransom party alone, the guy you ransomed can simply ping the ransom mail that was generated, and it's easy to see this happenned one jump over 2 minutes ago.

Making the invuln too powerful simply dumbs down the game, hence the reason the invuln is set up primarily as a guarantor that you'll be able to warp away from the ransomfleet, not that you'll live through the next gate, or be protected from outside forces. Having an invuln that gives the guy being ransomed a reason to consider paying even to entities that are new or unknown to him increases the incentive for groups to offer ransom, and for pilots to accept it.

Nobody on local but the people flashing on your HUD as part of the ransom, and you're one jump away from hisec? You're FAR more likely to accept that ransom if the amount is reasonable (e.g. "we'll let your JF go if you drop your cargo") Even people like yourself or gadget would be much more willing to consider paying out in that situation, and that's kinda the point. It encourages people to offer a fair deal that you have a bulletproof guarantee is fair in certain situations, meaning more potential people involved with that type of play.

Only being ransomed by one guy with three of his corpmates in system unflashy, and you still need to make six more jumps through probable camps? Well **** that, you'd have to be insane to accept or even look at that ransom.

Point is it encourages newer pirates to offer the fair deal because of slightly increased assurances, and lets pirates offer/accept ransoms much faster than the chat methods. In many cases the time it takes to extract ransoms in hostile FW systems and such are simply unmanagable. Every second you spend typing or waiting for that guy to send you ISK is a second his allies could quite easily be scanning down the plex you're in.

OMG save EvE.

If CCP doesn't implement this idea, they failz0rz.