Player Features and Ideas Discussion

im no expert on the killrights mechanic, but the problem seems to be that even if you are on grid with somebody that has a killright they easily escape when jumping between systems. Second problem when somebody is ganked they might not know how the killright mechanic works or they simply feel its useless/pointless to try punish the pirate that way. Third problem pirates such as CODE seem to have low consequences to the amount of damage they have caused with their cheap Catalysts.

potential solutions:
- after you have been ganked you get a pop-up telling you that you can activate the killright to be available for everybody with a standard fee of 10-50 mil isk.
- when you see somebody with a killright on him, and you activate the killright then the person cant jump through gates or dock for a certain amount of time.
- the higher isk damage that a pirate causes the longer he will have to stay with his killright (he would have to lose a lot of Catalysts to get rid of the killright on him)

To your points in order:
- Doesn't a new killright notification pop-up in the new notification systems once you get one? If it doesn't I would support that, but I think this is essentially in the game.
- This is quite the buff to kill rights. No other mechanic in the game allows another player to lock someone out of a NPC station or jump gate (ok... maybe bumping for large ships). Why should people with kill rights be given such unprecedented power?
- Killrights are not based on the value of ships (for the attacker or defender), it is just a mechanism for retribution. This would penalize players who participate in a single profitable gank of a hauler as a target of opportunity, and would have little effect on serial criminals like suicide gankers who just rack up dozens of killrights at any one time. Ganking of profitable targets or unprofitable targets should be incentivized over empty targets, not punished.

I'll save you the whole speech I usually give about how highsec criminals are suppose to be in the game and therefore are not actually a problem, but it is Christmas so I will spare you that. But really CCP has explicitly designed highsec to have pirates, so your premise that this behaviour is a "problem" that needs fixing is flawed - a better "fix" would be to lock them out of highsec altogether.

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