EVE General Discussion

The most audacious part of the bounty system is the notification mail when someone you have placed a bounty on gets popped.


I've got 3 notifications, all the same person.

Absolutely, and for that the bounty hunter system definitely serves its purpose. But the current system also fails horribly because of this:



I understand you are happy people to try it out, but

A: That's what Buckingham is for.
B: The bounties of 100k ISK are, like any bounty indefinite until the player loses his ship which is valued enough to have the bounty paid out in full.

One of the things we players put forth in the dev blog was timers on bounties to make sure they do actually mean something. And if useless bounties are being put left and right on people for the lolz (most likely to see the response), then the person that received it knows it will be gone in a month or so anyway. This was all you needed to do to make the system work. Yet you decided to wait and see what happens clearly ignoring the warnings of players and now you see for yourself that people are clearly not using it the way you predicted. Ignorance is bliss I suppose.

Bounty won't make you a legit target in high sec

Yeah bounties do seem to be on their way to meaninglessness.

Someone's late to the party,

Bounties were utterly meaningless...

I see no problem with tiny bounties on everyone.

A real life parallel would be everyone walking around has a 10 cent bounty... big deal.

The problem is that the system should automatically filter the very low bounties (filtering out everything below the mean bounty value would probably work, or maybe the average of the mean and median value... I'm sure CCPs math dudes could do it dynamically in a second), aka they don't show up as "wanted" and they don't show up on bounty boards, etc.

Don't know how I feel about bounty expiration. I think bounty attrition is much better. -500k isk per month or something to clear the balances on people with very low bounties while keeping massive bounties in effect for the long term.

Maintenance fee per bounty would be interesting.

I and others were very much in favor of an expiration date.

Right now they hang around forever, as immortal as the capsuleers. Only way they ever disappear is allegedly having the player putting the account inactive for five months. Or the corp/alliance disbands if it was that type of bounty.

I am currently thinking 30 days. It needs to be long enough so most people won't just log out for the duration, but within a period that doesn't seem like too long off. No more than 90 I would think.

I don't buy CSM Aleks' argument (made elsewhere) that the expiration would sap faith in the system, in fact I would argue that a bounty that never was claimed would do more harm in that respect. People knowing it was my enemy's destruction or your iskies back (minus fees) would actually be a bigger selling point, IMHO.