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Unlike trying to crunch numbers for something simple, this is actually an amusing idea and does not fall under the category of "thinking" too hard. In fact, it specifically falls under the not thinking too hard category because he stole it from someone else's idea. Thus most of the thinking has been done.

I like the concept, I don't think it's realistically going to be implemented, sadly.

Ummm....big difference.
Now goons can place an X on someone's back, and ANY ganker, ANYWHRE, ANYTIME, can nail someone.
This essentially makes every ganker in space a member of the Ministry of Love.

Now, I am waiting for people to say , "Don't fly what you can't afford to lose", but imagine this scenario:

Goons hate someone. They place a 10 billion bounty on them. That person is flying a freighter, somewhere in high sec. The ship has a load of say, 700M, which is well below the usual safe threshold of 1 billion to make it profitable to gank a freighter. At current prices that ship is worth about 1.5 billion. That makes the payout of the bounty about 300M, plus the potential payoff of the payload of the freighter makes the gank profitable.

Or another scenario. Same victim wants to fly a Marauder in missions. Hull cost is about 800M. Now, you tack on T2 rigs, some faction stuff, and you can easily hit 2 billion in value. The bounty payout is 400M, and you can gank a mission boat in 0.5 space with 2-3 Tornados. Suddenly, the mission runner who usually is ignored by gankers, will ALWAYS be attacked.

With the existing system, the average ganker would say, look at a PvE BS and say, nah, since I am getting no payout, and unsure the nice modules will drop, so not worth it.
Now, not only is that person flagged as they stroll through the gate, ALL gankers will pounce, since the bounty guarantees that at worst they will recover their losses, and the modules are gravy.

i think the reason is due to FW LP payouts

Don't worry, it's bound to happen.

It'd be good with the specific bounties, if you could specify the payout percentage.

So I make a bounty on an enemy alliance available to my own alliance. With a 50% payout.

Main issue I'd see with this is you specify 50% for an alliance bounty. Someone else specifies 50% for a personal bounty. Yet another person specifies 50% for a corporation bounty. And all of the sudden the bounty target in question can start killing themselves to get a 150% payout on their ship loss. And they can use that to start draining their own bounty and profit.

I am willing to have babies with any number of CCP staff.

Roughly around the time where your bounty is spent. So in your case once bounties of the amount of 10million have been claimed you stop getting notified. This however hasn't been implemented so nothing is really set in stone


The same applies here really except it doesn't really make sense to send a notification for each kill so likely this will be batched up.

I can feel a new EVE meme coming already: “don't gank people with your freighter”.

I think some people are not getting the "Sale of Kill Rights" correctly.

Imagine this scenario:

Player A: Hapless miner.
Player B: Evil Pirate
Player C: Evil Pirate's friend/alt

Player B finds A mining in a belt and ganks him. Player A has just loss 200million worth in assets (a made up number, lets use it just as an example) and now A has a Kill Right on B. Only A is a harmless miner and cant hope to exact revenge.

Player A decides then to sell his kill right. How much to sell it for? He just lost 200million, so he could sell it for that. But who would buy such a thing? Probably no one. So he thinks up a better price and decides 25million.

Player C says to B "hey look buddy, your kill right is for sale". B then asks C (who might be his alt and therefore B is mentally unstable) to please remove it by killing him in his rookie ship while in a clone with no implants. C kills B and A GETS 25 MILLION IN HIS POCKET! B and C just literally gifted A 25million!

Whats to stop C from killing B? Nothing, only the price tag of the kill right. Does C (or B if C is his alt) REALLY want to spend 25 million of HIS OWN POCKET so that A, a carebear, gets what would effectively be an "apology" for killing him? HELL NO! Because take into account that 25 million plus whatever insurance A got from his destroyed mining barge would help him a lot in getting back to another mining barge. Some people might just prefer to let SOMEONE ELSE contribute to As' "Help me get my Skiff back" fund. Others might just say "to hell with this" and shoot themselves anyway.

In either case A gets 25 million in his pocket.

I think it's brilliant!