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Bounty (player) change suggestion

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Tavari Minrathos
PC Load Letter
#21 - 2015-10-03 16:33:17 UTC
Serendipity Lost wrote:
Hi, i'm Jim's main. I just had Jim undock in an ibis and shot him with another alt. I only got 1 isk (my percentage cut of that one tritainium he had in cargo) to complete the contract, but the contract is complete. I'm not sure what Jim did to deserve the bounty contract, but it was easy enough to clear.

My other alt Jim-2 also had a bounty contract. Since I'm crazy filthy rich, I undocked Jim-2 in a freighter full of CFC carrier ratting loots. Even though thier carrier botting has driven the cost of guristas loots into the basement, the freighter had a lot of cargo space, so I had 6 billion in carrier botting loot plus I bought 20 plex back in 09 for 500 mil each and I threw them in there too, so the freighter total was 28 billion isk. The contract was for 50% of the ship value. The dude that put out the contract only had 450 mil available. CCP is trying to sort out who is going to pay me... It's going to be interesting.

Jim-3 is another alt on another account. To celebrate CCP's confusion of how to pay me for Jim-2 I had him (Jim-3) put an 80% bounty on every mission numpty in Apanake. The funny part is (giggle giggle) Jim-3 only has 8 isk to his name. I'm not sure whats gonna happen with that, but I did notice 80 marmites lined up on the station undock to collect fat rewards as the guys undock. Will they collect full 80% value via space isk magic or will marmites get to giggle gank 124 bears and split the 8 isk?


So, the morale of the story.... I can abuse the holy living hoo haw out of your idea because there are two too many variables controlled by players (that would be what I undock in and how much is in my wallet to pay out).


Here's the fix for all this. If you want the guy to feel some pain you can (1) war dec the guy and club him until you are out of breath, (2) hire some one else to club him for you, (3) suicide gank him until you can sleep soundly all through the night., (4) use the current bounty system.

The tools (and quite good ones) are in place.


As to situation 1: I didn't really go into details, but that would be what the minimum bounty would be for.

As to Jim 2, there would probably need to be a max bounty field.

Jim-3 situation, yeah the isk for posting the bounty would probably be held in escrow for a period of time. until the bounty expires.

But I do take your drift, the idea does need to be iterated on before it would be released.
Serendipity Lost
Repo Industries
#22 - 2015-10-03 16:46:28 UTC
You don't take my drift. They have already balance the bounty equation. You put up x isk and it gets depleted as the play has ships destroyed. Payout is a fraction of the destroyed ship value to keep the bountied pilot from circumventing via alts / self inflicted loss.

To make your idea work you would have to refine it until it's identical to the current mechanics.

You want a suicide gank contract that is CCP insured, or you want to be able to war dec an individual. Not gonna happen.
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