Powderpanic
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It would still be exploited.
Player A has boatloads of cash. He wracks up a bounty of 100 million.
Player B has no money but is good friends with player A.
Player A says to player B, "Destroy my ship, take the 100 million, it's okay I have loads of credits"
Player B does so, skips to one of the endgame ships and buys a lovely Anaconda.
:ALSO:
Player A thinks, "Oh hey, I could totally charge people on the side for quick in game credits".
Boom, easy credit buying is in the game now.
Don't get me wrong, I think bounty hunting is in a bad place atm despite it still being my primary playstyle, but it had to be capped.
I dont know of any events, but I will say this. It does boil my urine when people trashtalk in repsonse to reveals on twitter or something. It wouldn't if it was once or twice. But EVERY bit of news is met with some snarky comment.
I LOVE that people are passionate about this game. But FDev are going to hate it's playerbase at this rate if they dont already hate it.
I'm looking forward to the news tonight about what looks to be maybe fleet carriers. But then I notice in the comments it's just bile and vitriol. Urgh.
Lol, this game is so fraking full of exploits that crying about removing one exploit, is like trying to solve world hunger by throwing a guy a tictac.
I made my first Half Billion with the original piracy pickup and drop for instant full value while still in Leesti. Ironically this turned me to piracy, as it worked with stolen goods too. This took a couple of weeks in an Asp.
I made my second 3.6 billion with your bounty exploit, this took 25hrs. The first 2hrs of scanning my friends T9 with dual scanners to give him a huge bounty and him scanning me. Logged off for 24hrs, let it turn into a bounty. Jumped to a same faction system, ganked my friends' sidewinder and handed in his sweet sweet bounty. I then flew out in a sidewinder and he did the same to me.
After that I did the sitting under the capital ship in a CZ exploit for huge money and overnight AFK Elite Combat Rank.
Then came the Powerplay slave bonus, can't remember exactly how it worked other than you got a huge increase in resell for slaves.
My next exploit was Robigo slave flipping, followed by stacking smuggling missions. I was at around 6-7 Billion by this point with every ship several times over and a travel conda because jumping is so boring.
I think then I did the Draconis skimmer exploit, which I got down to 400million every 14minutes. I could log, shoot and relog in under 40seconds.
I didn't both with the Passenger delivery exploits or the as planned Void Opals because credits become meaningless to me around 3years ago.
There are a number of other "working as intended" exploits that have come and gone over the years. To many for me to list, remember or even care about.
So pretending that killing one exploit that would actually make Player Bounty Hunting viable, is just comical.
I look forward to the game release, untested mechanics and credit farms.
Totally why ATX or whatever money they are calling it is being thrown in. Correcting the actual ingame credits, would be actual work.
Powerpanic
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