Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Why do you think scamming like this is bad? If people are dumb enough to fall for it...

Why?

But you can, if you pay for it.

Why should the owner of a killright not be able to set the price? If I am selling the right to kill you, why should I not be able to ask whatever I want for it?

If it's entirely down to the value of your ship, what's stopping me from selling a killright on an alt in a pirate BS, then swapping to a rifter the second someone pays for it?

Do you have any idea how easy that would be to exploit?

How about every single kill right in the game gets listed on a Black Board/Wanted Board with opt-out (you have to actively remove KRs from the market via the KR section in the Char sheet or a better, fancier menu). Players can browse the BB for KRs by regions, constellations, systems (where KR originated), by player names, issuer names (those in whose stead you are supposed to kill someone), and so on. Issuers can set bounties/rewards/activation cost/etc and interested players can contact issuers if no reward/bounty has been placed and suggest such for their service (potentially more player interaction). If you are in a station with a locator agent, you could even directly from that menu request a track down on the char in question.

The rest can be as in your suggestion.

*beats Ezwal again on posting after lock* :>

Apparently posting two contrary ideas on the same topic is redundant so here I am to hijack your thread


@OP Selling killrights has never really made sense to me tbh, the chances of everything falling into place for them to be completed are fairly slim, particularly given the prevalence of highsec ganking.

@Rivr Am not sure automagic listing on a mass board would help particularly given how many are just left/ignored. But definitely some sort of way to sift through actively listed killrights and a tie in with locator agents would be a great step forward when combined with a way to reward bounty hunters.

Well, how about this:

Remove the current bounty system and allow bounties only to be issued via killrights and offer the option to extend suspect timers for a fee.

1)
If someone gets a kill-right from somebody else he gets two options:
a) release the kill right to the general population for free.
b) Pay a "kill-bounty", with bounty payouts handled the way it is done under the current system. The kill right will then be released to the public AND the kill right will stay active until the bounty payout has reached the damages the offender did in the first place times ranks in new skill "Damage claims" #, which would also be the max bounty one can add to an offender at a time.

2)
If an offender gets a suspect timer, everyone has the option to place an "extension fee": The suspect timer then gets extended by a multiplier calculated from the fee with something like:

new suspect timer duration = old duration x 10 x fee / current ships value (what would be shown on a killmail as total) x skill based discount.


# New skill: Social skill, something along the lines of "Damage claims": Allows you to place a bounty, when a killright becomes eligible to you. The maximum allowed bounty per incident equals your losses times the rank of this skill. At Level 5 you could place a bounty that's 5 times what your losses (total worth on your killmail) have been.

Also add a new skill called "Prosecution connections": Each time, when you are allowed to offer a bounty or an extension fee, the amount is subsidized by 19% or the original value of your damage claim, whichever is less.

This would make concord basically redundant, as with maxed out skills, you could impose a penalty on your attacker, that equals your own losses for only 5% of your losses. Blowing up large shiny ships could make you a suspect for quite a long time.

I am amazed you could keep a straight face... in words... with this trolling attempt...