We all do it, or at least that’s my guess, so I propose that when a pilot scoops up a frozen corpse suspect timer starts but the reward is also instant.
Isk amount depends on the pilots security status along with the points for such zkillmail.
The main reason why this thread exists is to provide an interesting form of ways to engage in highsec pvp.
So if its a frostpacker corpse, is it automatically packed and frosted? or does it need to be frosted before its packed? can you frost it before and after packing?
I can’t see any halfway reasonable lore explanation for that. Who would pay you a reward? And why? And why instantly and not when you deliver these corpses to somewhere where this entity that paid you can use them for something? Why should the reward depend on your security status or the points of a killmail, corpse is corpse for whatever they want to do with them, not?
Basically by the same method the bounty is being paid for when a NPC is killed.
The amount is set based on the rank of the pilot and so the system can’t be abused by the same person if and when a frozen corpse is scooped then the pilots rank will drop or reset.
This means pilots will have a greater care of not being podded.
Or they f the reward is set higher enough then more pilots will want in on the possibility of scooping the frozen corpse.
/adding that self podding would make that corpse worthless.
Note thinking of a possible way to have only one frozen corpse copy, thought need to write it up.
Maybe you misunderstood what I wrote. Or I haven’t been clear. I totally miss a lore explanation.
Why would anyone pay you for scooping corpses? Who exactly would that be? The Empire? A Corporation? The DED? CONCORD? And if those would pay you, why would you be suspect for doing it? It makes simply no sense.
Besides that, any ISK-payment for a scenario that you can create yourself with alts made for exactly that purpose will be abused by people, heavily.
We must also remember also have the special mobile tractor unit that collects frozen corpses and perhaps we could request that the isk tally builds up in that unit to work like an ESS we could refer to it as FCS Frozen Corpse Siphon
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Let’s take it one step further and have concord place one of those at every highsec stargate and the raider will turn suspect each time they loot.
I realize it’s not a serious suggestion, but if it were: no, frozen corpses should not reward ISK.
Frozen corpses are free and easy to make, you can produce frozen corpses at a rate of 30 per hour with little effort and much higher rates if you work together with someone (or an alt) to shoot your capsules so you’re not restricted by the self-destruct timer of 2 minutes.
It should never reward ISK to produce or scoop frozen corpses.
After giving this the once over, I had come to the conclusion that the Air Program to be updated with the new career program to hold additional overall progression that opens new careerpoints and achievements to unlock.
The top of the list for this will be the scoop up a frozen corpse challenge.