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Bounties have a major flaw
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Raptos Lee
DINGIR ANUNAKI Corporation
#1 - 2012-06-18 18:47:57 UTC
I’ve been bothered by “Bounties” for a while… The understanding that I have is, someone earns their bounty on their head for upsetting another player or wronging them; according to each their own. Anyway, it does not work out as the system should; at least from how perceive it. Joeshmoe ambushed you in high sec space as you started to jump at the next gate. “Pretty much a standard event in Eve” (gate campers) he gets waked by Concord after he destroys your ship, “no problem for him, it was only a destroyer, he lost;” unlike your Cheron Freighter which was full of cargo. So you’re pissed, you place a bounty on Joes head for say 1,000,000.00 ISK because. It turns out that Joe has pissed off a lot of other players of Eve online; he has accumulated 100,000,000,000 ISK bounty; Joes been busy, he’s only a simple or rather new Character to Eve. What’s going on here? I think that Joe created this Avatar for one reason, to collect all the bounty by killing “poding” him by one of his other accounts Avatars.
Joe is not real just an example. Please look into this for improving the Eve Online experience
Grumpy Owly
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2012-06-18 20:32:31 UTC  |  Edited by: Grumpy Owly
Its a long standing joke really Raptos and an issue thats been around for a while, so much so the humour has lost its appeal for some. It's now just a vacuous expectation of waiting for something to finally happen following numerous appeals from numerous players over the history of EVE since the current Bounty Hunting mechanic was applied in 2003.

But yes people use it for Epeen stores of cash and the idea of considering to use it as intended will simply allow the opportunity for the criminal to claim their own bounty with the kind of simple exploitative techniques you describe.

Anyhow, below is a typical advert from me regarding Bounty Hunting to maintain awareness to the issue, but it also has links to actually discuss some suggested solutions and various comments made by people concerning the feature ......

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For PvP and like to encourage more of it? Or perhaps you are an industrialist with a specific focus in game not directly concerned with PvP skilling to be effective at your role and therefore ineffective to apply teeth in response to criminal activities?

Want to validate a potential Career path in ≡v≡ with new income potential that is ideally designed as simply a transferance of ISK from one pilot to another?

Actually like situations where ships shoot back and "really" improve your KB resume as opposed to simply suprising soft industrial targets?

You agree that pilots should adapt to challenging situations in ≡v≡ where acceptance of risk is an everyday seperator of those getting ahead on the curve, criminals included, to ensure the game evolves instead of being kept dumbed down?

Or simply want to make ≡v≡ less boring with adding more fun and challenging gameplay elements?

Would like to see CCP finally correct a long standing (2003) broken mechanic in the game which at best provides an exploit for the effected criminal party to profit further from and yet has been left in the game still?


Support: Bounty Hunting, Soon ™.

CCP Design panel wrote:

"It's going to be awesome."

"It's absolutley on the list of things to do."

"We have a spaceships game, but you can't be han solo or boba fett, that's not clever."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_pLi1J9YrkM#t=1199s

Bounty Hunting - Soon (™): Retribution (Winter 2012)

It's just criminal - Smuggling