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So with the Bookmark changes, CCP is going to turbof*ck selling escalations. While I am all for the Bookmark changes, I think that Killing escalation selling is a bad idea for both gameplay and income for a certain category of players. Here is an easy way to have both, you even have the UI setting already, just add a few lines.

Let's say I get an escalation while ratting. I open my Agency, go to exploration and then escalation. My escalation appears here and right next to the "Set destination" blue button, there is a Rolling menue working exactly as the "make kill right available" menue but with three options.

1- Make available to my corporation

2- Make available to my alliance

3- Make available to everyone.

Once selected, a menue pops and asks to input a price. You do so, and now the selected Escalation is available in a new Agency tab called let's say "Escalation Market". Once sold, you no longer have the escalation in your escalation tab but it now apears in the buyer's tab. Buying escalations would be region restricted such as contract.

No more need of bookmarks, no more risk of scam, only benefits for everyone.

Looking for a job btw CCPlz just saying.

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I think it's a reasonable idea personally - not sure how much it would take to implement though, I don't work in development and I'm not sure what's under the hood of The Agency.

Playing Devil's Advocate though, this completely removes the ability to scam or rip off people with fake bookmarks. Deception, ripping people off and generally being a bit of a turd to make money has always been a part of EVE's core gameplay.

As a dude who're pirated since 2003 - this gives me the same feeling as a formal/automated ransoming system. I've opposed that because I've always felt that reputation and trust is part of the meta of EVE, and is a key part of gameplay in EVE.

Cool idea from certain points of view though for sure :)