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I assume you mean the overview system in general? If so I agree wholeheartedly. Admittedly, it actually does work pretty well, but it does have some rough areas that could use a good polishing up.

My personal gripe there is tags/backgrounds. Who decided that they had to use the same colors? It's counter intuitive, and downright annoying to me because I like to resort both lists differently and use them to show me that second layer of information about a target, but because I'm so limited on colors there, that doesn't work as well as I would like.

Another is the local list for sure. Many players use local as an early warning system. They like to shove that sucker off to the left side of the screen hiding the chat, and just use it as a list of names. But it's not nearly as functional as the overview window so it is limited, and largely worthless really in systems with too many people in them because the list goes off the bottom of the screen and gains a scroll bar. Too many people? forget about it, may as well close the thing.

But anyhow. That, is a debate for another thread. Overhauling the Overview, is a subject all in itself.

I've given the killright system some further thought:

I believe the concept of making the kill-right activation work based on suspect timers is faulty. It allows an easy and consequence-less escape from kill-rights upon the first failed attempt on your ship.

Any time someone has their killrights activated and can escape, they need only switch to an inexpensive ship such as a rookie ship or a shuttle and kill it themselves, thus 'fulfilling' the killrights and more or less defeating the system.

I feel like the system will be of very little use without a restriction on who can actually fulfill the killrights: instead of using a suspect timer the system should use the same system as the dueling system you plan to implement, generating a limited engagement (albeit a non-consensual one) between the pilot that activated the killrights and the target. If someone who did not specifically buy or own the killrights lays the final blow it should not invalidate the killrights.

From what I've read in the dev posts, that iteration is coming "at some future date". What you're describing is not a "public bounty" but a private pay-for-performance PvP contract which will be a different system. I described something similar back in post #190.

Public bounties have to have a fixed percentage of loss value as payout, that percentage needs to be low (to avoid most exploits, such as -1% energy implants), because of the way a public bounty pool will work.

(Private bounty contracts should have no such restrictions on min/max payout or percentage of loss value.)

How about an overview option to show folks with bounties ... this should be configurable by amount. If I want to only show people with a 100M ISK bounty or more, for instance. Use the colour blue, by default.

It being configurable is important, otherwise entire corporations will put 1 ISK bounties on all their members to muck up overview entries.

Wrong thread.

It makes sense if you'd know that security status has absolutely no bearing whatsoever whether that person is a 'bad person'. Theres more criminals than can be counted who have high security status. Could be a corp thief, betrayer, spy, AWOXer or something similar. None of these actions cause security rating loss, or at least enough to drop them to concord criminal status.

Take for example that disgruntled director who defected to Goons and was behind the breaking of band of brothers alliance. Did he do something to lose security status(lol)?

I dont see this as a method to grief you, I see it as a method for you to get back on the guy who griefed you.

The security rating/standings restrictions we have currently on bounties MUST go away for proper justice to be served in many cases. The bounty system may not be perfect, but at least it offers some support for victims to hire bounty hunters (or whoever) to deal out justice where they themselves are incapable. This is how I see this, and it can't come soon enough.

Now if only there was a legal way to attack the bounties without killrights involved but I guess we can't have everything. Can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs and so on. I do kind of hope that the onetime payout would be high enough to make suicideganking feasible in the very high-profile cases like I mentioned above.

there is already such an option, it's off by default

but it's not configurable

Though yes someone can set a bounty on you, like GSF could use said system to do payouts for hulkageddon. Anyone who kills you in HS will generate a kill right, so if say someone is trying to grief you with a bounty, then anyone that goes to claim it from you in HS you can then set a bounty on them and sell your kill rights to dish it right back. Its not like you will be hunted, cause people who will be going after bounties, will prolly pick and chose there targets based off of kill rights or some moral code. I.E. when i was anti pirate i only hunted down known pirates in my area.

did you read the blog?

"This immediately puts a Suspect Flag on the target, thus allowing you and others in your vicinity to attack the target. If the target player is killed while under a Suspect flag, then the kill right is ‘spent’. If the target manages to escape and the Suspect flag timer (15 minutes) lapses, the kill right is still available to be purchased (activated) later on."

as you can see if the person you got the kill right for evades death, then the kill right can be reclaimed again, untill it either expires or the bugger is dead

Think.

Suspect escapes, ships to shuttle, gets killed by friends or alt within ~15 minutes, killright expended.

Also, if the killright is cheap enough just ship to shuttle, activate with alt, blow self up.

The mechanic is terrible and very easily gamed.