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its also going to be great fun and shake up Hi Sec pvp

yes, this is the whole point. You can indeed place bounty on a hi sec freighter pilot. BUT
- a high sec freighter pilot still has to have a flag before you can agress him
- if you choose to suicide gank him anyway, then yes you can take less of a loss on the gank by claining bounty
- but SOMEBODY still has to pay.

well which one is it James...

On the one hand you're complaining that its going to kill Hi Sec piracy by making hi sec safer

and on the other hand you're now saying its not going to change Hi Sec pvp at all.

yes, its going to change things. No it doesnt make hi sec safer, it just changes consequences. There are still plenty of ways to (ab)use the new system and you can still suicide gank in hi sec without caring about the bounty system. However, if youre very active killing carebears you may become a more attractive target for other more experinece HI Sec players who will give you a real fight.

The reality is, if you enjoy killing lo skill rich noobs in Hi sec, you now become a more attractive target. On the other hand, they have to PAY for that to happen. So what? Isnt that a GOOD thing? Or are you just angry that your targets can shoot back now?

Nice to see this finally getting updated, it's long overdue (nearly a decade now). Good stuff tho.

* Buyable killrights is something we players requested since launch of this game, it's long loooong overdue, and you could never have added changes to the bountysystem without adding this. Good that you did. While tying it to the CW-update has some benefits (personally I like that you can do it on the fly, in space), it also has risks - currently if someone has killrights on you, you could easily add them to address book and/or keep an eye out while travelling. With the new system..
- how/will there be any kind of indication for the bad guy, that a killright on him has been sold? Let's just make it clear, I like that there's "more" consequences, but this effectively locks people out 100% from even a quick answering-phone session, anyone with killrights on him must 100% dock or cloak up everytime anything might interrupt him, at all, especially in highsec. It's quite a major change.

* The bounty pool, and payout as portion of isk value, seems like a damn good solution to many potential exploits. Expanding it to corp, alliances, and (in the future) specific structures is really nice.

Tho, here comes the critisism:

* How will anything of this make "bounty hunter" a viable career choice in EVE? The only thing that allows you to hunt down people is the buyable killrights system, which obviously has some limits. You'd have to basicly have an updated asset-like list that show people where the potentially targets is, which in itself would be bad because it virtually would be more powerful than locator agents. But a bounty-hunter would need to know where there is targets, he'd have to move ships, possibly scout the target (especially if he's not in highsec), etc. I.e. this is far far from newbie friendly, and a good waste of time for an older player.

* And the effect of this is that it effectively makes the "leaderboard" and 'see old bounty claims' essentially.. useless. The only people you'll see on top of those lists is highsec wardeccers (Jita campers etc), and possibly lowsec vultures preying on their own. You won't see any players dedicated to this at all. Which is a shame, I'd love to actually give it a shot myself, but it needs an intel tool.. and same time it needs to not be too powerful either. Extremely delayed, or just a plain list of names and we'd have to locate and do all research etc ourselves. Billboards won't cut it, and CQ frankly is a really ****** idea, not a single player I know has that stuff turned on as it's zero-content and just slowing down ship-swapping, as is. You need an ingame tool, like the market or map.

There's more to it, but that's the more important stuff, and a starters. You have made a decent platform, but really, you need to work on the intel tool, and it would be nice with a clarification on how the guy being hunted will have updates about his present situation..

Do salvage drones have decent AI so that I don't need to lock targets for them? That will be the part that makes real difference.

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.