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I've found a couple loopholes in here that may need addressing:



Why would you send the name of the person placing the bounty? It's only going to provoke the target and it's not going to have any effect because I can just create an alt or trial account, transfer cash, and place a bounty from an untraceable pilot. Cut out the middleman and don't send the name.



If someone buys my kill rights, activating the flag, and then I immediately withdraw them, what happens? Is the suspect flag withdrawn? Does it stay active but disable the kill right payout? This is a very exploitable edge case that wasn't addressed in the blog.

The suspect flag is not withdrawn. But once the timer runs out, and all Limited Engagements run out nobody will be able to activate the Kill Right again until you choose who to assign to next.

If the kill right has been activated, making it unavailable won't change anything - the flag stays on and the kill right can still be used up.

normal kill rights also work in this way, you have to activate it.

you might want to choose the moment when you want to make that person a suspect to everybody!

no you don't give up your own kill right when you make it available to others

Also, why do you make it known to the target who placed the bounty? People are just going to use disposable or secrets alts to place bounties anyway. It's a silly mechanic.

Awwww I wasso much looking forward to collect on CCP Soundwave's 2 trillion in bounies

\o/ I am very appreciative of the reduction on putting bounties on Alliances though & it sounds like good fairer amount. ( although a 0.1 ISK bounty minimum would be best )

thanks for the clarification, namely:

" Having a bounty on you will never by itself make you a legal target anywhere."

Phew

Many thanks again to the team for listening to our feedback and doubling their efforts to deploy selective kill right sales, its a drastically needed tool to ensure that this bounty hunting system doesnt have the exploits the previous edition suffered from!

I still think reducing the capacity of ASB's only ensures that people will default to the dual-ASB tank, as it simply weakens the use of a solo ASB setup too much. As I've said internally, the problem isn't with single boosted setups near as much as the alternating dual booster fits, I'd much rather see a limit on the number of ASB's one can fit, and maintain their current capacity - than nerf them in this manner (especially since it impacts the smaller sizes more than larger sizes as there is currently no Navy cap booster 25's or 50's.) I really hope the team keeps an open mind here and continues to listen to the community, ASB's have a LOT of potential and are a lot of fun, I just think the path currently being taken to nerf them cuts way down on the number of ships that can use them to begin with by eating up more slots for a second booster.

....not to mention Fozzie's tiericide efforts when it comes to command links will further hurt ASB tanks, I hope this pending double nerf is considered - because it would be a shame for these to become obsolete when compared to traditional active booster / cap booster setups.

The rest of the module changes are pretty sensible, reactive armor hardeners in particular should really start to shine given the new speed of their adaptation.

Note, though, that it will make you a more likely target. A freighter pilot with a sufficient bounty on his head will readily pay out 300M ISK for the ship alone (to say nothing about the inevitable lost cargo), and that goes a long way towards making it a “free kill”. Jump Freighters will similarly be able to pay out enough ISK to pay for the lost ships in a gank, even if not a single piece of loot drops, if the bounty is high enough.