The bit where you won’t magically catch every target because most targets will not be huntable.
Or are you imagining this to be like PvE where you always win.
It won’t work like that. People will manipulate the system. This is EVE after all. login, now I’m active. doesn’t mean I’m ever vulnerable.
Did you miss the post(s) where I’ve stated over and over and over just how hard BH’ing is? I’m actually guessing the permit/licence period would need to be longer…
Actually it will work just fine as I’ve pointed out over and over and over…Or are you imagining that you can just state “it wont work” and win a an argument.
If you never undock then you probably wouldn’t have earned a bounty…
I think this part is my biggest concern. I am just skeptical that the average criminal has a consistent enough login pattern to make a useful algorithm for blind matching. I guess from my own experience, I might do one thing a certain day, and do something completely different the next. And then there is weekend warrior randomness. Factor in that if I know that there is a system trying to track my patterns, I might not want to be consistent. Not to mention, how many criminals have alts that are part of alliances? Does that affect their schedule with their criminal alts? Is it only some or most criminals that have such variability in their schedules?
It would be fascinating to pour over such data, but unfortunately I don’t have access to this data, and without it, personally I just can’t say such an algorithm would work or not. Maybe it could, it could just be me that has too much skepticism. I guess we’ll just have to wait for the day IF/WHEN a successful bounty system is ever implemented then we may know if the devs went with a blind, on sight, or some 3rd option…
That’s a great point actually and one that would be hard to compensate for. The only slight counter to that would be that a mostly inactive criminal probably wouldn’t have a huge bounty and there for the time window for activity smaller…he might filter himself out of the loop. But that’s a big maybe…
I suggest when KB is back up and running, grab the data from a bad boy and play with it in Excel to see the schedule profile you come up with…
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