Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So I've noticed that certain hi-sec ganking organizations are offering to leave people alone if they pay a fee (i.e ransom) . Of course it's no guarantee you won't be ganked by these groups.

Here is an interesting idea though.

Allow players to pay CONCORD a certain fee that will allow them to give you extra special attention. The fee would last a certain period of time (say from a week to a month), and there would be tiers of payment. Each tier would reduce the amount of time it takes for CONCORD to respond when you are being attacked in Hi-Sec, by a certain percentage. Say ranging anywhere from 10% quicker to 90% quicker (at the most expensive end).

So I see some gankers charging up to 10 million ISK per year for their 'protection' from them. I should think that the services of a faster responding CONCORD would be significantly more expensive (particularly at the high end of the spectrum).

So players would have a choice. Pay the much lower fee to the gankers to 'maybe' avoid being ganked by them. Or, if you're more principled and don't want to pay extortion money, you can pay a higher fee to CONCORD for a faster response time. However, that is still no guarantee you won't be ganked of course.

Gankers then would be in the dark as to which level of CONCORD protection you are under (if any). Though maybe there would be a way for them to find out (perhaps for a large bribe to a crooked CONCORD cop) , so they know how many ships they need to bring if they are really determined to gank you. Though it may not be profitable for them, they can still do it for kicks.

The game needs less NPC interaction and more player driven and player made content.

I vote nay to everything that involves services provided by NPC entities.

Perhaps. But in situations where you cannot rely on player characters (for instance hiring protection from other players when and where you need it and without getting scammed or just poor performance), I think an NPC option is appropriate.

If there are players who want to provide the service cheaper, then that's still available.

How about you put some effort into defending yourself instead of asking for the NPCs to do your job for you?

Thinking more of how this system might work, I thought of one way it might.

You would pay a tiered fee to CONCORD for increased protection that would go up in price the higher protection you want.

Of course these would only be CONCORD responses to things they would normally respond to.

It could have a time frame anywhere from 24 hours, to a week or even a month. Maybe any and all of those with increasing prices, but discounts for longer periods (i.e. The one month price is cheaper than buying thirty 24 hour allotments).

The payment tiers would increase CONCORD protection by one Security System per tier. So say you pay the lowest tier for a single Security tier (.1) increase in protection. Hence if you are in a 0.5 system CONCORD's response would be like you are in a 0.6 system. If you're in a 0.9 system, it would be as though you were in a 1.0 system. And of course if you are in a 1.0 system it would be as though you're in a 1.1 system! j/k There would of course be no extra benefit, as the highest security is 1.0.

The highest and most expensive tier you could buy would be for a 0.5 security rating increase.

And given there is no CONCORD response in systems below 0.5, there would be no benefit in systems 0.4 and below.

You're VERY good at what you do.

In any case. That thread is over a year old and is locked.

Furthermore, my idea is similar but clearly has several different aspects to it.

Perhaps you misunderstand the 'duplicate thread' stipulation.

I think this is a reasonable idea, OP. You can't pay PVPers to sit in a belt with you, the rate you earn won't keep up with their boredom.

As for gankers, I would fly rookie ships only rather than give them one word of my bio or pay them anything.

Indeed. I'm not one for paying extortion money or ransoms, let alone pledging fealty to such people.

They don't own Hi-sec.

I'm more than willing to pay a fee for mining in player owned territory.

Concord are not people, Concord is a game mechanic. The gankers are people, and they are providing content. You wish to bribe a game mechanic to deprive others of content. I don't like their content much, but I would support it even if it were ten times worse over the suggestion that you can pay to win.

Paying to win is exactly what it is, because you are paying not to interact with others, or rather, be exempt from interacting with them. Of course, by paying to win, you also pay for them to lose, because instead of hiring real people to fight your battles for you while you play pretend and create content for them( both gankers and guards), you have just paid to push an easy button.

Since in game money can be bought with RL money, and subscriptions time can be bought with ISK, It can't be considered anything other than pay to win. If I no longer have to use a tank on my mining fleet, or be cautious in moving around highsec with a bowhead, freighter, orca or any other juicy target, then the risk no longer exists. Without the people, and without the risk, eve is nothing.

This would destroy the mineral market and turn hauling into an afk ony trade.

No.