Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So there's (as usual) a LOT of argument and rage about bounties/sec status etc (I;m most certainly not exempt). So why not introduce a player-based, proactive police force. Here's my idea.

A corp may gain a 'Pirate Hunters License' (or a solo player could join an NPC corp with one) that allows them to take down capsuleers with negative security status in High Security Space WITHOUT a Concord reaction. This would allow bounty hunters and the more law-abiding citizens of New Eden a chance to defend themselves in a preemptive manner - you can't stop a well-executed gank, but you can help dissuade pirates from doing it by blowing them up on their weekly supply run.
These licenses wouldn't be easy to get - Capsuleers will need to work to prove themselves trustworthy. They'd need over 7 on the Corp's average security status to be granted one, and it would be revoked the moment that number went below 7. Holders of this license couldn't fire willy-nilly at anyone - only those with lower than, say -1.0 security status. End result is Concord has help, hisec players can 'fight back' without having to go to pirate territory and criminals will have to be a little bit more careful when travelling through hi security space.

In addition, why not give players a security status boost if they successfully take down a criminal - the lower the criminal's status, the bigger the boost, as Concord and the Factions would look with approval on those Capsuleers who take down their less-desirable counterparts. This bonus should only apply in Faction Space.

Thoughts? And try to avoid 'It's terrible'. Tell me why - this is, after all, Features & Ideas Discussion

Sure, but anyone who holds one of these licenses should be attackable by anyone with negative sec status without CONCORD intervention too.

why would a pirate actively pvp'ing not want the sec hit? Generally a pirate is either shooting for -10 or as close as possible. Or they are in sec status repair mode.

For the latter most I know favor running loops in a sb. So if our pirate hunter is tooling around in say a cyna, generally that loop running pilot is trying to avoid him. Now if the pirate hunter in a bs.. that pirate has to decide if its worth wiping out a nights worth of ratting to pop him. Barring really drunk or really stoned...the sb should clear off easily otherwise if not worth his time.

For the pirates looking to fix sec status and still pvp...I have had many eve friends do this. They went to a 0.0 home for a bit.

I am seeing your points its jsut I am not sure who it applies to. most pirates I know/have known jsut want to blow up stuff. And most I have known tbh jsut write off empire anyway. They wanted the eye patch, well they took that ball and ran with it. Empire for empire alts basically. If not pirate hunters jumping them its the empire NPC based responses that make empire a pita. But this may jsut be a case of seeing eve differently.


And yes its slated to go away for the grind but......unless the lucky few who pop the mythical idiots in bling fit ships pve'ing in low, I see this working about how it does for the datacentres for faction standing in empire. Very badly. CCP is taking a page from the goons play book basically, pay me 500 mil isk and I can let you enter the club.

You can run the first few agents cheaply enough. Its the higher end agents however that make getting good faction boosts much more expensive. tag costs I see limiting this basically for the less successful and rich pirates. Even I on carebear binges looked at datacentre fixing and said screw this. the tags for agents after the teaser intro ones were wtf priced. And this was with a steady income. Piracy can be feast or famine.