Freelance Jobs (a very POSITIVE review)

[Meridan_Night]

@Reuben_Orlenard

I’d like if they would add a rating system, where users can leave community ratings to the corp that is offering jobs.

This change would quickly help us filter good actors vs bad actors.

Not going to work because the corps offering jobs would just create an army of alts to artifically elevate their ratings and make themselves look legitimate.

Catch one unsuspecting victim, create new corp, create new ratings. Rinse and repeat. Scammers would have a field day.

[Reuben_Orlenard]

Yeah that’s fair. Maybe only accounts over a certain age can review? But.. Yeah. No good solution that isn’t directly abusable.

[Arthur_Aihaken]

[Aiko_Danuja]

I take back my negative review of the freelance system.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED – ‎James 315 Space

As explained on my blog, it’s actually worked out well for me.

Thanks for the free isk!

[Vokan_Narkar]

@Spyke_Austrene

To make that pvp freelancer jobs cool you would have to

• generally display the location of the job, not where you can get it. This is really annoying
• use filters for target example: kill pll of a certain corp or not being in an access list or being in a list etc.
• use filters on who can accept, thus preventing ppl to kill themselves for money (which is why the original bounty system did not work)
  That way you could pay ppl for blapping known venture killers etc. It would really be fun
• in order to make it first contact to corps (the assumed reason for these jobs) one would have to see who actually did ur jobs

Wrong, wrong, nonsense, nonsense. Old bounty system could not be abused to kill yourself. These theorycrafts with some super rare faction item that the said person was playing market tricks for months only to then have it in ship that he destroyed with alt is nothing but a fairy tale that never happen.

We already have what is needed for PvP bounties to work, it is just limited to corporation.

But in corporation project I can specify, player or corporation/alliance, system where he has to die, ship he has to fly. Not much more needed, although I suppose you can always just let yourself blown alt by alt in empty hull, but there is no solution against that. The thing is, even if someone makes a freelance job against me, I would not notice. I don’t look at them. I don’t care. So even if I could scam it (which currently is easy to do since it is damage not kill lol) I wouldn’t.

[Vokan_Narkar]

@Arthur_Aihaken

Can anyone confirm if any free intel is given away through these Freelance contracts? ie: the location(s) of where any participants made progress on the contract.

Not sure about freelance, but I use corporation projects and even this system won’t show me who participated and how much was he paid. All I see is the total sum subtracted from Corporation Wallet upfront. I would expect the freelance works the same.

[Syzygium]

@Vokan_Narkar

Old bounty system could not be abused to kill yourself.

Imho the last iteration (20% ship universe-wide 90d average hull value as max payout) was imho pretty failsave. Items in Fit und Cargo were ignored and no one is able to manipulate a ship-price for any ship in EVE over 90days to a degree that he can make profits with that. Others would waaaay to fast step in and correct the market.

No idea what really the reason is that CCP doesn’t want to bring the bounty system back, but abuse from killing yourself with an alt definitely isn’t. Because that didn’t work any more when they turned it off.

[Lydra_Victor]

@Aiko_Danuja

As explained on my blog, it’s actually worked out well for me.

Thanks for the free isk!

Seems you found a new adventure. I don’t drink alcoholic beverages but have some beer.