EVE General Discussion

I've noticed a lot of people confusing the two, or even thinking it's the same thing, so here's a short breakdown of what they are.

tl;dr: Putting a bounty on someone does not make them a legal target for anyone, and having killrights to someone (or buying them) does not imply the presence of a bounty. The two are absolutely unrelated.

Killrights

A killright is assigned to a person when he is a victim of illegal aggression resulting in a criminal flag. This killright gives the victim the right to trigger a "suspect" flag on the aggressor at a later time, without warning -- making the aggressor shootable, and potentially resulting in his death. If the aggressor dies while under that suspect flag, the killright is spent and cannot be used again. If he escapes, the killright can be used again.

Kill rights can be offered for "sale" to nearby people. This is the equivalent of saying "Pay me X ISK and you will be able to shoot this guy here". Essentially, it streamlines the process through which the victim can offer an opportunity (for ISK) to take advantage of the aggressor's suspect flag to other nearby people. This would be applicable, say, if a freighter pilot wanted to clear out a gatecamp which had shot him before. He could offer the killrights to one or two of the camping Tornados for pickup by nearby people, hoping a spunky Rifter would pop up and kill the Tornados for him.

Bounties

A bounty has nothing to do with whether you can shoot a target or not. The bounty is simply a pool of money which rewards people who kill the target -- regardless if the kill was legal or not. The payout for a kill against a target with a bounty on his head is 20% of the kill value (or the entire remaining bounty pool if it's too small).

Bounties can be placed on anyone. It is equally "ok" to put bounties on the Tornados in the previous example, to make them juicier targets, or to put bounties on hisec miners, to encourage suicide-ganking. The presence of a killright makes no difference in the enforcement of a bounty.

Once again: Bounties are not killrights. Learn the difference.

Relevant devblog: http://community.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&nbid=73446

Nope. Still only pays out 20% of what they lost. If I have a 1 billion ISK bounty on my head, but am flying a 1 mil ISK Rifter, anyone killing me will still only get 200k ISK -- hardly worth a GCC.

Nothing you just said was true. Thanks for trying though.

Nope, no ISK sink here. No ISK is "destroyed" all the bounty ISK gets put back into the system once claimed. All of the costs for the ships for the Wanted person are also not destroyed, that ISK is simply traded to another player in exchange for w/e ship and modules he used.

You never know these days. People really can be that stupid.

How about placing a bounty on a killright?

You can only place bounties on people, corps, and alliances. A killright is none of those, so your question doesn't make sense.

Great post, this will may cut down on the tear threads as of late.
Terrible post, this will may cut down on the tear threads as of late.

Sincerely, great info. +1

Dev blogs, patch notes, comments on the forum from devs and players, plus some talking to people who have played around with the systems. Ed: also extrapolating from the FW payout system a bit. I'd love to play around with them myself, but I've been online less than I'd like due to school and other real life things. Semester's almost over though!

Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

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