EVE General Discussion

How so? Putting a bounty on another player doesn't give anyone any special in-game rights, does it?

Right now I could, quite legitimately, offer a bounty on you via the forums. How would being able to do it in the game make it more or less "harrassment"? The only real difference I can see is that with Retribution, another player would be confident of the bounty being honoured whereas now they'd just have to trust me and hope.

Conversely, now you'll be able to put in-game bounties on people you deem criminal, regardless of their sec status.

Incidentally, most hi-seccers seem to have some wrong ideas about bounties. Specifically, about how much is a reasonable bounty. There seems to be this general supposition that if an NPC battleship carries a bounty of 500k-1.9M, then that's a reasonable amount to put onto a player. If you want anyone remotely competent to actually go out of their way to collect a bounty, I suggest you start around the 250M mark for an easy target, and work quickly up into the 9-digit zone for a perp who's actually any good.

If people wanted to shoot a ship for a lousy mill, they'd just shoot an NPC BS, you damb tightwads.

I foresee a substantial amount of miner isk being placed on James 315's head.

As well as null. Why does your alliance interfere with hisec then?



Yeah. Because growing numbers of subs is the indication of death... oh... i forgot... "eve is dying" (happily since 2003). And yes, Hisec shouldnt be the griefer haven as it is now. it should also provide retribution. You comite crime? You are a criminal, everybody should kill you. Thats why we call it HISEC.

Because hi-sec isn't an isolated shard. What happens in hi-sec and the conditions that pertain there matter to people living in lo-sec, W-space, NPC 0.0 and sov 0.0.

Personally I think the new bounty system will be abused as a viable griefing mechanic that evades enforcement by the Eula.

Put things in perspective and consider what happened at fanfest last year.

Post Retribution if a similar thing happened the new bounty system would allow a collective of players to effectively make any individual constantly financially viable for ganking isk wise potentially in perpetuity.

As I understand it assuming isk is not an issue (and with dedicated bounty hunters) retribution will allow one person or groups to effectively target any specific player / groups and shut down their play style unless the targeted player(s) opts to take the risk.

Since things are left to player interpretation the "Crime" could be as simple as flying a pimped ship.

This is barely true at all.

Highsec has so much provided for them on a plate by NPCs and highsec mechanics that they're effectively insulated from any effects caused by events elsewhere in the game. CCP could delete 0.0 space overnight and 90% of those players based out of highsec would barely notice.

Would be good to be able to counter bounty the one that singled you out, but I can see bounties being made by perma docked alts to avoid this.

Nah, I think to grab a bounty you'll need to purchase or rent kill rights, wardec them or suicide gank them (in highsec). There's no way CCP'd let you just mark another player to get shot. It's insane. But how do you find out who has kill rights on someone :S Also if someone who has a big bounty kills you are you going to get a bunch of offers for the killrights?

Oh, i didn't i "borrowed" a picture of the actual USS monitor and put some low quality adobe illustrator magic on to it...

Yeah, pretty constantly if these forums are any guide.

Or are you saying that hi-sec is so overbuffed that there's literally not a single thing about any of the other sec zones that the inhabitants need to care about..?