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There are clowns putting 100,000 isk bounties on everyone in sight. Now if someone wants to take shots at me so be it; it's EVE, there is no 100% safety anywhere. But the whole point of bounties is undermined if EVERYONE has one on them. That's just nonsense. I think CCP have a bit more refining to do on the new system.

Please explain to the rest of us how we use this tool to remove only the annoying pointless sounds and leave the useful ones.

Some more thoughts on the bounty system:

First, I understand what the new system was meant to resolve, and also how it is supposed to make bounty-hunting more plausible as a career choice.

But the current implementation makes no sense from a science-fiction universe realism standpoint.

In our world, you can have a bounty on a wanted criminal, an escaped prisoner, someone who jumped bail, etc.

But you can’t place a bounty on your neighbor or business competitor just because he’s ticking you off. You can hire a ‘hit’ on your business competitor, but that is obviously a highly illegal and risky undertaking.

The new system, in effect, makes hiring a hit on a completely law-abiding citizen perfectly legal.

To look at it from another angle – my industrialist char has been a peaceful miner in Eve for about a month. Now he has a big red wanted sign on him and a 2 mil bounty. I am not concerned about the bounty. Someone will need a good enough ship to get through my rokh-miner tank, and then face Concord because I chiefly mine in hisec. It isn’t worth it to them.

However, if I want to start a carebear mining corp, I have a problem because to a complete rookie that wanted notice & reward makes me look like some kind of wasteland gangster. It is a real liability from a recruitment standpoint, and I didn’t do anything in-game to deserve being hindered that way.

It’s like hanging a sign on the door of your local shopkeeper, “Feel free to mess this guy up – we’ll pay you.” No one thinks that should be legal. Law-abiding citizens of New Eden should have similar protections. Like the shopkeeper, they are providing a service. (Yes, pvp-ers, carebear miners are providing a service.)

Maybe you want to differentiate between “taking out a hit” on a character (an illegal act) and setting up a bounty on a wanted criminal. Incorporate a ‘hit’ option in contracts, with possible repercussions for the one hiring. (You could make ‘black-market contracting’ a skill, if you want.) Taking out a bounty, on the other hand, should be perfectly legal and tied to security status.

It would certainly do more towards further sci-fi realism in the Eve universe. No one wants to play in an arbitrary, nonsensical world where random hit notices are the norm.

pax ammaria part 2

At Christmas time everyone must dilligently read and reflect upon their copies of Pax Ammaria. I certainly value and treasure mine...

Let's see.. Salvage drones with level 5 skill have, if I'm understanding this right, 13% "access difficulty" (whatever that really means). Pilot with Salvager I and level 2 Salvaging skill has 15% access difficulty. I'm not sure where the thresholds are, but chew on that a little. At level 3 SDO skill, your drones are equivalent to a t1 salvager with 1 level in the Salvaging skill.

TBH, this patch ruined Eveonline for me. There are several things that I use to do for fun, that were exciting, that are no longer possible. It is hard to swallow that we cannot afk level 4s, let alone many of our missions ships are nearly worthless since they cant be used in the same application. I considered going out to nullsec and carrier ratting for isk. But wait, now rats will **** up my fighters. It is a great idea that I can sit in my faction bs and die from a single warp scramming frig. Its not as if we trained all of this **** to defend against that. CCP, if you wanted to drop everything I liked about this game, why not spread it out in a few patches? You failed hard if you ask me. I have played eve for about 3 years now and I think this isnt even the same game that I knew. I am in shock at how strange the choices you have made. I got the impression that you were trying to make Eve more "safe" for noobs. It seems to me that nullsec and low are safer now. Consider the first day how many people got popped and didnt even understand it. This patch sucks and ruined a fun game. I will look at other games to fill the void.

Loki textures are bugged. Front of the ship has old textures, the rest new one which occur in strange behaviour when ship cloak after jumping gate. To be more specific only the front of the ship is transparent rest is simply gone.

Same here. CCP, please consider making them clearer and more distinct.

Over the past couple years I've made lots of ambient, drone and dark electronic music because of the EVE Jukebox, fitting music for EVE that I often play while engrossed in game play. I fear CCP has destroyed the motivation to keep producing new music of the sort by removing the jukebox. The jukebox was a good feature for a sandbox, not only for motivating creativity by various artists, but giving players the ability to add to their individual experience and tastes within this sandbox experience. Now we have a choice of a narrow view of music for our sandbox experience (which doesn't seem very sandboxy) or turn off the music all together. So now the music of simply off. Return the jukebox before EVE becomes horribly boring.