EVE General Discussion

I think hunting pirates and such should be relegated to a low sec activity and thus defined by constructs within lowsec rather than the bounty structure.

Yes, make it more than 20% so that I can blow up my ships with my alts to collect the bounty that someone has put on me.

Right now, that salvage just isn't enough to make it profitable to self-gank. Make it 60% of my loss so that after I salvage my own T2 wreck, the self-gank for bounty will be profitable.

Once self-gank becomes profitable, no on will bother putting bounties on anyone because that person you bounty will no longer have to lose 5x the bounty to remove the bounty.


Great idea!

You mean, like a locator agent?

That makes a lot of sense.


I hope you guys decide to do this.

I'd really like to be able to remove isk I put on someone if they aren't getting blown up. It kind of sucks to put a bounty on someone and never see any of it paid out.

And not getting all my money back is perfectly fine with me. It's better than seeing my isk wasted on a bounty that no one ever collects.

There needs to be something that directs players to them.

Like a tab in the bounty window that will allow you to find locator agents like you can with mission agents. I'm willing to bet that most people don't even know that there is such a thing. It took a few years before I understood that's how people could find you. Even today I still have no idea how to locate a locator agent. If they're listed under a different name in the agent finder then maybe they need to be clearly listed as locator agents.

Flying around random systems, waiting for someone to show in in the overview or local, isn't bounty hunting. That's more like bounty scavaging.

Locator agents aren't covered in any tutorials that I'm aware of, and they'll be the bounty hunters primary means of locating idividual bounties.

They need to make a little more obvious that such an agent exists in the game, and direct you to them if you want to hunt bounties.

Bounties, as close as Logistics Pilots can get to a kill mail without pretending to be DPS.

I flew Logistics on a roam last night. We poked an obvious cyno trap in order to get a fight and got hot dropped (as expected) by a large Black Ops fleet. We lost 4 Hurricanes, but I managed to keep them up long enough to take out 2 Recon ships and three Stealth Bombers, so we won from an efficiency standpoint. Our 2 Scimitars and a Tangu got away because their Falcons had prevented us from taking hostile action for the last 60 seconds so once the Hurricanes went down we were able to jump out.

Now to bring this back on topic, the Bounty payouts I got are the only proof that I was actually there. It is hardly a substitute for a kill mail, but at least it shows that I was in fleet and in the same system when the kills happened.

Question: Are Bounty payouts given to members of the fleet that makes the kill who are a) on grid, or b) in system?

I would expect them to payout to anyone that engages in a hostile action against the individual, that is also in the fleet that destroyed the bountied individual.

You shouldn't get a payout for sitting around watching youtube while the other guys in your fleet blow things up, even if they're doing it right next to you.

Eliminate bounties, unless it's the game NPCs (not CONCORD) who come after the player. Otherwise, it's (still) a joke mechanic.

Let me say this one more time.

If you DON'T KNOW THEY EXIST, you won't look for them.

You can't find something you're unaware of.
Very simple concept.

Agent finders, on a website, do not direct anyone to the fact that an agent locator exists. It's a safe bet, that most people aren't aware that a locator agent even exists. Even then, just like there's an agent locator in game that will direct you to any mission agent, you should also be able to find the locator ones with the same tool.