Crime & Punishment

So I just started playing again in the last week and I am catching up on a lot of changes since the last time I played, but one that struck me as a bit excessive is the ability to make kill rights global for no cost at all.

What is the reason for having this? I am not QQing about losing my ship and pod in Amarr almost 2 hours after ganking a low sec AFK miner, but it seems a bit silly to me that it is even a feature.

I spent my 15m as an outlaw after killing him, I took my sec status hit, he got the kill right, and he could of placed a bounty on me. Why go further with allowing anyone who wants to kill me have automatic rights to for 30 days? Not only can some random dude station camping in 1.0 space like Jita/Amarr just attack you, but when they activate the kill right, the person who is the target becomes "suspect" for 15m so everyone else can get in on the pod kill.

This probably won't happen to me again now that I am aware of it, but, like I said, it seems a bit excessive.

I propose that the minimum cost for someone to activate a Kill Right after being made global should be some percentage of what you lost. The guy I killed lost about 114m in implants, so for him to kill me it should, of course, cost 0 ISK. Make it 25% of the total cost for anyone in his corp to activate it (without him around), 50% for anyone in his alliance, 75% for any specific alliance, and 100% of cost for global.

So in order for some random dude to kill me, who is not part of his alliance, corp, or a specific alliance he picked, would have to pay 114m in order to activate the Kill Right. This would still allow people to be killed by randoms for 0 isk as long as the pod killed originally didn't have any implants...

There is no sense of revenge for the person who made the KR global from the current system. It would be like me mugging some dude who passed out in an alley in the middle fo the night and then later that day I get hit by a car and the person mugged calling that revenge.

Oh yea, I understand there is a loophole around the mechanic by doing this, but I don't think that is how it was intentionally designed to work. If I had known about the system before the KR was made global for me then I probably would of done exactly that, but unfortunately I had no idea, I thought the mail in my inbox was just me insuring my ship and didn't think to check it :P

I believe it would be pretty rare for someone to take out a person flying a thorax for 114 mil isk, but someone from their corp/alliance might do it for 57-81m if they thought they could get my pod too.

I leave 'em up. Who knows, maybe one of my victims might actually come and generate some content..? Naaah. Not often, to be sure.

I am not QQing about my death, because it won't happen again. I can't expect to not be surprised after not playing for multiple years. I just think the mechanic could of been done differently and could be a bit more complex.

I bet you were also completely against the "gutted" reconstruction to the bounty system. Since it was completely useless before because it was so easily taken advantage of by people within alliances/corps or even alts getting the bounty and then splitting it. So now instead of getting the full bounty you only get 20% of the ship cost/asset cost and that is deducted from the players bounty.

So what I am suggesting is players depending on how they are related to the person who has the kill right pay a certain percentage of the lost pod/ship (depending on if it was done in high sec or low sec) to be able to activate the kill right. This could keep some people from manipulating the loop hole in the system of just having a buddy or alt do it in a rookie ship, like suggested above.

It is not "gutted", to me it is just more sensible. A 30 day free global kill right is not sensible.

Bad idea is pointless and DOA.

That would make clearing kill rights to expensive.
As already posted the current system allows you to clear the killright for free if its set to global for 0isk or a very low amount.

In the system you suggest this would cost to much and you get back to the old system, which is when you have a killright on you you are basicly prevented to do anything in high sec.

Came expecting bear tears.
Found tears belonging to someone who wishes he was not a bear.
Left happy.

A ganker got ganked and now he mad? Never expected this.

If you gank with regularity it doesn't affect you anyway; being set to global kill rights when you're already -10 is redundant...

You're just crying because you thought you'd get in a gank or two (profit?) without the changed reprocussions? I'm not one for sticking up for carebears (check the rest of my smack-posts) but if you're going to gank them when they're ill prepared they should be able to get revenge or assign anyone else to do it when you are.