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Skihids
Tritan-Industries
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Posted - 2013.01.18 01:12:00 -
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Is he going to pay the 90% ISK transfer tax when the spigot opens, or is the taker going to get a paltry 5M for his efforts?
Doesn't sound like a great deal to me when you could end up losing that much trying to make the bounty. |
Skihids
Tritan-Industries
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2013.01.18 02:26:00 -
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HowDidThatTaste wrote:How do I get paid?
This merc is for hire!
You can't. That's not only a problem for this bounty but also for FW. Right now we mercs are funding EVE's war.
And that's not the only problem with putting a bounty on a DUST merc.
First, death doesn't mean the same thing to a merc as it does to a an EVE pilot. How often do they die? Once or twice a year? How often do we die? Once or twice a game for the good players, far more often for those who take risks. So what's five deaths strung out over the length of time it takes someone to find you in game and kill you? How would you even notice that it happened?
Second, it's a lottery to get into match with your target before someone else does.
Third, you have to hunt your target at the expense of ignoring everyone else around you who wants to kill you. That's likely to lose you a suit or ten over the course of your hunt.
The person putting up the bounty is counting on getting many people to try for it, resulting in some huge effort to overwhelm the target, but given those difficulties and the added burden of having to record each match not very many would actually be trying.
So you put in a lot of effort and loose more suits in the attempt only to find out you came in second and you don't get any reward.
The whole idea is pretty meh... |
Skihids
Tritan-Industries
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2013.01.18 13:13:00 -
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Shrikey Juk wrote:Open bounty means lots of mercs running after one guy if he is spotted in a battle. A single death is meaningless when you immediately wake up in a new clone, but when you die countless times and are truly hunted, it has some meaning.
How is it that you don't see the griefing aspect of this?
That's certainly what's intended, but not what will happen.
As I stated earlier, the recording requirement ensures you have only one or two bounty hunters in any given match which does not constitute a mob.
All I see happening is that Exmaple doesn't have to chase down his victims because they come to him.
It might work against a mediocre player if you eliminated the recording requirement, but as presented it's still meh... |
Skihids
Tritan-Industries
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2013.01.18 19:02:00 -
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This is just another "I haz more moneez than you" boast wrapped in an ill conceived contract.
Yes, EVE pilots have more ISK. The two games were designed with economies separated by orders of magnitude. The brag falls apart when you consider that the OP did nothing more to gain that status than to sign up for an EVE account.
This attempt to use the disparity falls apart at once because CCP knows it is a big issue and has barred any economic interaction. Even when the tap opens it will begin with a 90% transfer tax. By the time things open up more it will be trivial to get your own EVE side corp to fund you with far less effort than chasing a single merc around public matches.
The telling point of his cluelessness is that he threatened a DUST merc with the EVE pilot's bogeyman without considering the absurdity of it. Threaten a merc with five deaths? OMG! That's ..., well, that's par for the course in any given match.
Getting podded is a big thing in EVE as demonstrated by kill mail, but consider how that would work in DUST. You log in for the day to see that you have mail: 5k messages each containing the full kill feed of a match.
The OP clearly did not put much thought into this effort. |
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