Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I just realized something CCP.... If you fix damn bh, which really shouldn't be that hard, you kill FOUR birds with one stone. Piracy will become much more popular from being so much more exciting/challenging/rewarding, mining will gravitate/increase more towards lowsec because miners will have a better way to strike back at/deter pirates, and mercs/miners will use the system together as an additional form of payment. You have to fix lowsec for this to work though. Y'all should make mining in null 15% more profitable, such in lowsec 35% more profitable, and in hisec like 20% LESS so. See how they all link up? You should probably make some stand-alone tweaks/ additions to the mercenary system simultaneously. If you invigorate the **** out of BH, and give mercs a more comprehensive way to play as an aside, you may save the spirit of EvE.

Make that six birds, as CCP should focus on making Hauling as a profession easier/more profitable/funner as well.

Witty remarks about OPs inability to use the edit function aside, the problem at its core is that the bounty system as it exists today is totally useless and serves no real function in the game. I would love to see a working bounty system where you would accept jobs to hunt down other players in or outside of highsec, maybe a bit like the kill right system, only where you would get money instead of paying it and it would be applicable only to one person, like a duel invite.

HAHA! Nah my man, the key word is "deterrence" not prevention. The lpoint is that miners will FEEL more secure and thus more easily become inclined to venture out into lowsec despite the risks. And I think all other aspects of hisec should be Les rewarding EXCEPT PI. That was mainly just a balancing idea. And let's face it, hisec has to get SOME love for the sake of new players. Just not anywhere near as much as everywhere else. As for wormhole PI.... I just forgot about that >_>

I see what you mean. But that's why I added CCP should drastically lower the worth of care bear ore from hisec while much more even more hugely increasing the value of lowsec ore so that they'd be stupid not going into lowsec eventually. Additionally, if kill rights are given to bounty hunters as part of the bh system improvements, I can very easily imagine organizations like Goonswarm going after hisec miners deliberately/maliciously by pouring tens to hundreds of billions into bounties directed against hisec miners. They'd probably even find a way to profit from such a scheme.

OP, if it's not that difficult to fix the bounty system, then how should it be changed to be fixed?

But all of those are completely unworkable and actively encourage people to unsub and play other games.

1. Why can't I place a bounty on someone I just don't like, or kills me in low/nullsec? Unless you plan on adding criminal flags to all sec levels.
2. How do you propose that a scam criminally flags you? Are you planning to have a GM look over each and every business transaction that someone complains about, thus increasing the workload on the already overworked GMs?
3. The whole point of a scam is that it's hard to detect. Please show us this magic script that is smarter than the human that fell for the scam in the first place. What about scams like citadel contracts from people who change docking rights?
4. No.
5. So if you kill a rich player, or say something that trips the scam filter, he has carte blanche to lock you out of the vast majority of high, low, and some of nullsec. That won't be abused. Also, tempbanning your character after he gets killed? You're effectively banning any sort of PvP since you kill someone->bountied->characterbanned.
6. So if I pretty much kill anyone a big flashing neon sign appears above my head that says "kill me pls".
7. RIP any new players who want to PvP.
8. Why can't the bounty alone be reason to hunt for bounties? Why do you have to be given 100 billion ISK too? Because those skins are worth at least as much as AT ships.
9. Why does CONCORD care about what happens in nullsec. Give a lore reason, and a game reason since the entire point of null is unrestricted PvP.

In conclusion, your idea is bad. In fact, it's a cut above the other bad ideas in F&I, and for that I salute you. I nominate you as the first person to be criminally flagged and thrown in space jail for trying to scam CCP out of subscription money in your attempt to improve the game for yourself at the detriment of everyone who isn't a carebear of monumental levels.

Show me a game where that stuff 'works' and ill show you a game that eve players would never play.