Assembly Hall

Over a year ago, I was one of many who brought a proposal to the table to overhaul the Mercenary System. The system was essentially non-existent. There was no way to ensure Mercenaries were paid for the work they did, and the wardec system was jacked up by having to wait to declare war to help a corp. Many ideas were brought forth, and after recently coming back from a break, I see there's been many changes, which at first look seem to be for the better.

One feature I suggested however, didn't get added although back then it got quite a bit of support. Because of that, I wanted to propose it again. It's my firm belief that PVP in high-sec/null-sec would be improved if players were rewarded by Concord for shooting players who are known criminals or aggressive towards other individuals by giving them sec status gains like they do for killing NPC's in belts. Not everyone wants to go grinding for sec status all the time, myself included. It would be a benefit to gain sec status for doing what I love doing in this game and that's shooting other players who also enjoy combat.

I propose that any player with a -2.0 sec be agressible in lowsec without global criminal flagging, and that any player with -2.4 or below be aggressible in high sec without Concord intervention.

The Pros:

A. It encourages MOAR combat amongst players in high-sec & low-sec by Concord not lowering your sec status, but raising it.

B. It gives players who hate grinding for sec status the opportunity to earn it a different way and again encourages more PVP in lowsec.

C. It gives the Bounty Hunter career an added bonus to collecting bounties

D. It provides mercenaries a way to focus on their targets at hand after having to suicide gank someone or several persons as part of a contract.

E. It adds to the fun of Eve without giving one side an overbearing advantage.

The Cons:

I really haven't found one as of yet, but that's why I'm looking for your input. I don't see how it can be exploited so long as you don't receive credit for shooting neg sec pilots in your own corp or alliance. I welcome your input and appreciate your support. CSM, please give this some thought and bring it forth to the Devs.

how about automatic bounties placed on pirates by CCP? that could really liven things up.

So, if say my alt was in an NPC corp... and I got this alt to -2.1 by ganking stuff... then picked a quiet high-sec system... repeatedly ganked the said alt with my negative status main... I'd be what? +5.0 in no time?

The amount of gain would be important, and as with NPC's the gain in security status should be appropriate to the loss.

So if it was worth blowing up a bunch of battleships for you to get your security status up, then sure you could fast-track it, but I think the price in that case would be sufficient that "exploit" would not be the correct term for it.

So basically this is a roundabout way to pay for security status?

I have a few battleships lying around that I can insure and blow up.

I see the merit in the system. The only problem I see is that if you make the sec gain too high then you are going to get alt grinds and if you make it too low then some players will argue that there was no point in "wasting" time coding the system. Frankly I would like to see a sec gain exactly like that for shooting NPCs (swap elite hulls for t2 hulls in terms of sec gain). That way there is no point in grinding it out with alts. No ratios, no special conditionals, just straight up +sec the exact way you get it through shooting NPCs. I would like to advocate to make it a larger gain but if you make the gain too large - then you will get people making -10 alts to treat as a personal sec reliever.

Another thing you could do is put a maximum number of times one player can be killed by another in a single day and still receive sec status gain for it... or even more simply make it so a player's death rewards sec status only so many times per day/hour/week depending on the level of increase they would award. Perhaps they could make it to where the longer a player goes without being killed the higher the reward in sec status gain for his head? Just thoughts.

Good idea, and it would need to be worked out so it cant be exploited. Bounty payouts shouldnt affect sec status gain.

To the top! This is srs bizniss!

Great, all we need a database that records how many times every player has killed every other player on a single day.
Thats not going to be big or anything......