Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Okay so i've thought up an idea for the bounty hunting system its basically a complete overhaul but since the devs havn't gotten rid of it i feel that they want to keep it and have an eye out for discussion on improvements. So here goes.

1. Bounty hunting is similar to faction warfare, it is a faction you can join as a bounty hunter with high security status. as long as you have a high security status you can join.

2. Bounty's are controlled by an NPC agent. (There would be NPC agents in certain regions in high sec that hold information on bounty's in certain regions in high sec, low sec, and null sec. The NPC will give you 5 random bounty's that you can select from, all bounty's controlled by that NPC agent only give bounty's that are homed in the regions they control. no player information is given about the bounty until acceptance. at which point that player is flagged as your bounty. At which time bounty's can be engaged in high,low, and null sec at any time by bounty hunter.)

3. Players are completely ignorant of bounty's placed on them, they have no idea that they have a bounty on them and do not know a bounty hunter is after them and has claimed their bounty's by NPC. also an option bounty's can only be placed on players that have killed a player or committed crimes against a corp or alliance. to which the alliance, corp, and individual player can now place bounty's on player. an eve mail will be sent by nearest Bounty NPC asking if you would like to place a bounty on said player.

4. Communication to all bounty's claimed by bounty hunter are restricted, permanently. i.e money transference(which could be the only perm disabled communication with player, personal chat, eve mail. Local chat is disabled when bounty hunter enters same system as his bounty. a bounty timer is activated which disables local chat for a certain time period. These restrictions are to diminish exploitations of bounty's by making deals with players to let themselves be killed for a cut of the bounty. of course this won't stop players from using their alts to communicate with player, but then its a risk of player telling the truth or not.

5. Payout of bounty would be as follows. if a player has a 800mil isk bounty you get ship worth in isk then ship worth in LP from the faction. if you destroy the players pod. you get x5 what the ship is worth plus x5 ship worth in LP, and maybe a bonus in both if player had implants. you can give NCP agent credentials of bounty's to fit what kind of bounty's your looking for. ie certain bounty range of isk worth, if the player is in high, low or null sec. and how long the players have been playing (or we can call it threat level)

6. Corporations and alliances can join bounty hunting faction with enough standing and does not have any players with low sec status in their corp so total corp standings do not matter is all players having 0+ security status no neg. Fleets can all accept the same bounty. FLEETS: bounty's can only be accepted by a fleet commander then all bounty's are flagged as each players bounty which means all players get a cut of the isk value earned. if bounty's are accepted by a fleet those bounty's are flagged as that FLEETS bounty regardless if fleet disbands or not. which means if one of the players kills a bounty and everyone else is logged off all players that were in the fleet at acceptance claim isk for the kill. Comm restrictions are the same for the fleets.

7. you can pay isk to the agent to activate a beacon on the player that tells you what region your bounty is in. and of course a isk cost for doing so. i mean come on you think they wouldn't have beacons for pods? it just makes sense. or maybe it can just be a tip from the NPC agent saying that your bounty was last seen in this region 5 min ago. and you can pay isk for more tips on location if you lose the bounty or think he might have left the region you were in.

These were the main points of the possible new system the next ones are possibilities that could still work

8. New combat scanners specifically for bounty's which means the signatures of your bounty's are the only things that show up when scanning.

9. You are given a pod signature number or word for the bounty's ship or pod for your D-scan

10. A prob launcher that fires a probe on the ship to which you can track the ship your bounty's in for x amount of time with a possibility to fail

11. New skills for bounty hunting. ie communicating with agents x amount of jumps away, skills for the tracking probes which increases time of tracking, another skill for range of launching tracking probes, and another skill to increase chance of success of probe attaching to bounty's ship.

well thats all for now folks i put alot of time and thought into this and hope the devs read this post. and give me feedback.

well its supposed to be complicated. bounty systems are complicated no matter what world your in

Well at least we can filter out the WoW rejects from coming here....so needlessly complicated things are a good thing sometimes.

And besides ... sheesh ... this reads like you want it way too easy.

It's like an iWin-button.
Even dscan!


This sounds like you want to grief these people...

In before the obligatory move to the Ideas Discussion Forum.

Wall of text there. How about just buying kill rights from players that have a large bounty on them. Would that work?

yk

Actually this is a brilliant idea. The highsec carebear gankers would hate this but it would bring credibility to the risk/reward philosophy so that there's a price that comes with easy kills.

First of all, wrong forum. Second of all, don't quit your day job.

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That's a lot of words for being apathetic shah, one might mistake it for effort even.

I think its more about the isk.

Bounty Hunting won't be a thing because there is too much instant intel in the game that gives away the situation. Coupled with station games, it would turn boring fast.

yk