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If you're shot in highsec and not instantly killed, CONCORD should relieve your attacker of their ship pretty swiftly. Not sure about if you shoot back at them (it doesn't usually come up)...

I would like to give you the opportunity to deny the horrible rumor that is going around that bounty payouts on members of the CSM that you don't like are automatically doubled. Thanks in advance!

Your bestest friend on the council,
Trebor

haha!!

So what is the point of the new bounty system if we still cant kill people with bounty on thier heads. The new bounty system is not going to make bounty hunting a career possibility, People with bounty are still safe to stay in NPC corps and never venture into low/null cant be war dec'd, so the bounty is unclaimable and therefore a waste of isk and time just like in the old system. We should be able to buy kill rights from the bounty office, OR sign up to the bounty off like FW that gives players/corps/allience kill rights over anyone who has a bounty on thier head.

I still think this is needed, been asking for it since Inferno. It's almost certainly wont make it for Retribution. No word from Team Super Friends as to whether it will make it in the point releases.

Sweeet!

..except for that ASB mod. Should have gone with the cap use and left the duration alone. Basically, with the capacity nerf and the duration extension, you just made it useless for anything but gang PvP, and by that, I mean gatecamping and ganking poor solo sods. Should have adjusted it so it would be useful for more than that, but that's just my opinion.

Maybe it's for the best though. It'll be interesting to see the burst tanks that will evolve from this anyway.

Hans Jagerblitzen and Alekseyev Karrde together with other have already noted how excessive is the nerf in capacity to ASB, it hits the small and medium sized ships terribly... at the end the the question is, why would someone use an ASB if the total hitpoints he can get are the same as the equivalent sized shield extender?

True, it can be overheated, but it will create damage, and true it can be reloaded, but for practical purposes once it starts reloading you're either out of the fight or you'll die.
The shield extender increases the HPs but also increases the shield recharge /s, it's easier to fit, and protects from alpha much better than an ASB does.

ASBs are a problem when used in pairs or when they can be oversized, but on most ships they are fine as they are as just a decent alternative to shield buffer after all.
Surely there's still time to review this nerf before the expansion.

Off the top of my head I can think of a few issues that still have not been addressed.

- Bounty contracts need to expire, just like normal contracts. This also solves the issue of "person quits playing for 5 months, what happens to my money?". If the bounty expires under that case, there's not much reason why it couldn't be limited to 30/60/90 days in the normal case. Personally, I think a 30-day limit would strike a nice balance between longevity and being able to grief someone out of the game for 5 months.

- The overview / local indicator for who has a bounty will be mostly useless in places like Jita where bored pilots will just place 100k bounties on anyone in local. There needs to be an overview setting where you can set limits on the minimum bounty amount.

- There needs to be a limit on how many bounties you can place at once, just like public contracts. Maybe it initially uses up the contract slots until a specific skill could be added later. This would also help fight the "bored pilots placing bounties on everyone" issue.

- As much as CCP cries about inflation, you're still passing up the opportunity to add at least some sort of ISK sink into the public bounties. Such as setup fees, taxes on the total amount (1-5%) and only returning some (80-90%) of the remaining bounty if it expires.

Im sure you can think of a way to kill people in highsec. (Hint: tornados)


Still no response about the micro jump drive, eh?

they should be tripled