Where do you get that from? A lot of carebears identify with their characters. Roleplayers value their characters as well. A lot of people have history behind it, so they will not easily just sell them. I do not know where you get that idea from, but it is not true.
You seriously overestimate the amount of suicide gankers out there.
Someone being an asshole is guilty of being an asshole.
Oh yes!!
Any game that allows more than one character per account means that the emotional investment is much lower than if you only had one toon to use, period. You RP point is valid…this toon started that way and then I got bored with it and changed its goals…didn’t care at all as it’s not may main…plus I have 13 others…
While you might be true and I over stated it, simply put, the more characters you have the less attached you are. Some bears do, some don’t…Just look at -10’ers…they don’t care at all as they all have alts to run their wares/loot. Same difference.
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“utilitarian”: That’s the word I wanted to use. Most toons are purely utilitarian in nature.
Until we get rid of alts we can’t have nice things.
@Salt_Foambreaker
I am not sure what you mean by local bounty…
But ill explain how i saw it…
Lets say you gank someone in Gallente space…ok you get a Bounty…lets say it 5% of the ship hull you killed(or helped to kill)…(no cargo or fittings included).
But you end up in Amarr space, ok well where you got the bounty doesnt matter…
The Bounty Hunter has to have an Amarr Empire Bounty Hunter License to even think of engaging you.
Without that…well he can gank you but doesnt get anything and loses his license the moment he does a criminal act(all his Hunter license’s).
Now ok, need 1 License per Empire… 1 Billion ISk each. (10 Billion for a Concord level License for all 4 empires)
and lets throw another wrench in there…you can engage only 1 target per day, per skill level…make the Book cost 500 million ISK or more…
Now back to you…you killed 1 target…the game put a 750,000 Bounty on you for killing a retriever(example)
hmmm, keep the 20% value of your ship as a requirement for getting paid…
After all that…is your friend really going to help you claim bounties??? By shootin you?? I think not
Edit: only a dedicated Bounty Hunter, someone that likes that style of play would be willing.
Max, is your post referencing my initial idea or are you just tossing a new branch out?
Is Boba Fet a bounty hunter? Is he “legal” and a “good guy”? Is bis boss Jabba basically CONCORD?
Bounty hunting should be something open in all directions. Some big mafia boss putting a bounty on some loudh mouthy miner and sending an assassin after him sounds incredibly like EVE. A " government sanctioned" bounty hunter certificate for hunting the “bad guys” not so much.
The whole lore of EVE paints a dark distopian universe with capsuleers as god like beings not bound by the rules of mortals.
I don’t know Star Wars lore enough to say but it would seem that the profession is a legal one albeit one that’s looked down upon. Jabba is known to dabble in illegal activities, Concord is not so no they are not the same.
I 100% agree that what you suggest be the system but it’s not in its current state. A bounty payout is (1) tied to the ship’s worth and (2) only 20% of that and (3) you might not be the one that gets paid if there is more than one attacker.
Bounty’ing a loudmouth miner has zero effect and you are fooling yourself into thinking it does. Nobody gives 2 craps about bounties now.
A dystopian universe IMO is one where people take the law into their own hands (via Bounty Hunters), not one where if I seek revenge, I also lose my ship as that act is illigal…that’s too warm and fuzzy.
yes and no,
Really though I have said before a revamp of the Bounty System must include NPC involvement at some point in the chain if its going to be fixed where all parties can be “content” if not happy.
Issues with the topic:
1.) Hunters being able to engage and kill targets with lower risk of NPC trying to intefere.
2.) Freighter Pilots fear of (or others) of not being to play if they can be bountied and killed en mass with what amounts to free KR on their heads.
3.) Payout and Implementation vs now and what was before to a new type of system.
These threads when they come up once in awhile i might say something simple hoping some idiot has a brain to think things thru instead of knee-jerking a response,
So yeah i solidified an idea, and threw some ‘arbitrary’ numbers in to provide an anchor…
Cool and thanks…I’ll kick the ball back then…
(1) I loath NPCs and would push for a more pure player driven environment but that’s pointless so all I’ll add is that as long as the fees have been paid and the licence for a target valid, it’s happy hunting for the BH’er. I see no need for more NPCs, just the current ones tweaked a little.
(2) Aggressors can only be bounty’ed if they illegally destroyed a ship. Gone would be the days of the current ‘system where you can bounty somebody for whatever reason you fancy’. So if a part time hauler is also a part time ganker, that might cause issues as they might be targeted themselves.
(3) The only issues I see here are if multiple BH’ers kill the same target or if the bounty increases while contracts are issued.
I think your suggestion of contracts for each Empire but as the whole idea of Empires is mostly pointless, I’d just make the contracts ‘space wide’.
More later…
Oh i was not thinking of contracts…
Just authorizing to shoot…
Federation license would let you hunt and kill in Federation Space…
But you would get Concorded with out a State License in the Forge.
I’m a bounty hunter already. Ya’ll doin’ it wrong.
Looking at your KB, I would disagree with you…
so how many do i need to be called a bounty hunter in ya mind? ya really need a reality check there mate. how ‘bout ya try killin’ me for a start? I wanna see if ya’rr made outta more than just words.
You made the claim so the onus is on YOU to prove it…I’ll wait here.
Ya just wanna avoid gettin’ ya incompetent highknee kicked. Ya ain’t a bounty hunter and never will be. Ya 'rr not even accepting my challenge, so there really ain’t any reason to believe ya’d actually be up for the task.
I too bounty hunt every day. If there is a miner with bounty and one without the miner with bounty dies first. I guess he had that bounty for a reason and someone wanted him exploded. If you want to get rid of those other miners who steal all the ice, just bounty them and notify a bounty hunter like me. It actually works.
So you made the claim…offer no proof and now just attack me…lol…
(slow clap)
Well done Boba…you proved just how elite you are. I can’t compete with that and the carnage you’ve wrought across the galaxy. Shuttle pilots must fear just seeing your name in local.
As much as I support CODE, I would argue that bounties are not a driving force when doing the good work of James…more like a nice bonus.
Remember, the proposal makes the attack legal…what you are doing, no matter how justified, is still illegal.