EVE General Discussion

You are not thinking big enough. If you got 2 accounts, 6 pilots, then its 240 million an hour maximum possible.

Wrong, you only have to shoot the pod to get a killright.

The fact that you can make ISK off this isn't a problem, and that wasn't the intent of my OP.

The main problem is that it's a way to make ISK without any risk to yourself. Most people doing this won't be sitting on a station with a docking radius they can be bumped away from. Most people don't this won't set the killright to be available if their alt sitting undock sees an alpha fleet waiting for them. Plus, when you're done you can just use the alt to make the killright private again and thus 'safe' from random violence (Due to killrights, at least) Some kind of cooldown between changing availablility with these would be nice.


Of course, you can always count on stupid people to both A) fall for it. and B) Fail at trying a scam in the first place


But the main (and only issue imo) is that there's no risk. Generating the flag that prevents docking or jumping as well would introduce some risk (Even if easily avoidable) and would prevent killrights + stationgames from being BFFs.

For people who were wondering about who would actually pay you to shoot you in dock range? Try fitting a massive buffer tank on a marauder and undocking from a mission hub with a 40-50m killright on you. People bite. Trade hubs? Works too. Like someone said above : You can always count on stupid people to fall for scams!

This is the how they wanted it... after all this is the bit they call bounty hunting now... :)

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=2059112#post2059112

Ah, so the cat is slowly coming out of the bag now, huh? The system is flawed, and the bears are starting to take notice. "The kill right targets have too little risk," they say. "They need to be prevented from docking and jumping," they say. How about just giving people with 5.0 security status, or those who mine over 1 million m³ or more of ore per week, a button that allows them to explode anyone they don't like? That would balance out the relationship between the mean griefers and the honest, hardworking industrialists, right?

Oh and I like how CCP removed my post about the Summer 2013 hauler buffs. Real subtle guys. Want me to go write a Kotaku article about it instead?

If they made bounty hunting so that it was more or less limited to bounty hunting corporations/fleets this would not be so big issue. However now that "bounty hunting" is pretty much only free for all gank fest outside stations you can expect people to exploit that with methods described earlier.

This was known to happen - people who I've talked to had the details figured out long before the patch came out. OP just wrote the exact "exploit" formula out loud now.

This is the very reason why bounty hunting should have been kept under development till the technical hurdles to make kill right activations affect only fleet/corporation would have been solved.

Hopefully some people are happy with current feature and what it offers to bounty hunting corporations. Personally I feel that now the hunting part of the bounty is pretty much a joke. No smiling here.

Maybe a bit to much tho tbh

Yeah whatever pubbies keep whining about being able to die in the game where you're supposed to die, I'm too lazy to look on our forums or log into jabber, so can another goon tell me if this helps or affects our hi-sec operations at all?

This is a silly argument as there are a ton of ways to scam other players out of their ISK with little or no risk and their always has been... You have the standard Market hub contracts and spam, swapping undockable capitals between characters with a less the desirable third-party, recruitment scams to bring carrier pilots out to 'their new home' just to blow them up.

Is CCP supposed to chase every down every scam and find a way to circumvent it? It would be so time ineffective it would be silly for one. Maybe it's the responsibility of the pilot in many cases to assess the situation before makes a decision.