Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello!

As we know certain aspects of bounties is rather ignored on certain levels, you can see players with 500 mill bounties etc, and they just fly on. Some are often never collected, but they still arise.

I have a small suggestion on this part:

When placing a bounty in a station ok, the regular system applies as is today. Now what if we had a "rogue station" or dubious location where you can hire NPC clusters of enemy ships to hunt down your designated player. This beeing a feature that would logically have a cooldown so people can't send 2 billion ships at 1 player alone. Though if a corp decides to go in for it they can hire 1 ship each and torpedo someone.

Duration on how long they will look for the player, based on how much you pay
Strength of bounty hunters, based on how much you pay

Cooldown, 1 day, 1 week or more depending on the strength of the request.

You can pay them to fetch back certain loot, but there can be a chance of them actually backstabbing you and leave you without anything at all. (so if you really just wanna see t he player dead, you let them keep it).

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Hired Help -- NPC gang you can hire for 1 hour that will only attack agressors, let's say if you like to go mine, you can have a group of 3 ships guarding you for x hours duration.

Same parameteres, based on how much you pay - Strength & duration.

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I know EVE is very player driven, but some people prefer to mine alone or they just like to have alittle extra defense when out exploring.

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If you don't like this suggestion then that is ok :D i would hope i get constructive feedback on this post. Please keep rants & trolls to yourself.

Thank you for reading!

Yes i agree, but when players don't, it would be nice to make sure an attempt actually occurs.

the very wealth can just drops a few stacks on some NPCs to hunt down War targets that they dec'd and simply ride along with the NPCs to kill off the targets?

Npcs are not friends. Paid allies/mercenarys are not friends, but at least they're paying to play the game.

As for defending you when you mine: drones. Also friends. Friends can do alot in this game, amazing things. Some times they even have conversations with you.

Although I'd love to see your idea used during a burn jita event, or just used by plain old docking ring heros.

Can I hire rat to rat for me?

Try paying us, that tends to have the desirable effect.

No, on the bounty part you cannot "tag" along for the ride. the hired mercs are for tag-along.

The hired mercs for a bounty collection happens at a random point when the player is online. atleast that was how i pictured it.

Thank you for your input and question :D

if the outcome of the ratting and the power of he hired help is worth it compared to the payout of the rats i assume you can, but most likely you'd loose money doing that. i was picturing the price to be rather steep on the hired help. Which is defense only.

Thanks for the input! :D

Of course, if i can find you guys, and you're online and able to locate that player when that player logs on.

What's your price?


Thanks for the, information :D

Except the npc's wont just be on the side of the lower tech ship. The older richer player will have npc's, in fact he'll have better and more npc's than the low tech player can afford.

Much better to just leave it in the hand of the players.

- They price themselves better according to supply and demand and their ability.
- They behave better. Reacting to other players more appropriately. Reacting to their treatment by their employer more realistically.
- Their availability is better. They are not infinite or omnipresent and maintaining relationships is important.
- They are constantly iterated on. They aren't one of those features that is created and then left for years.

Npc escorts, like npc couriers, should never happen. A player's lack of friends or unwillingness to reward players enough to do this work is actually interesting sandbox gameplay.