Player Features and Ideas Discussion

There should be some way to encourage people to go after the lesser bounty targets other than just randomly happening across them in space. One thing I can imagine happening is people stop placing bounties 'cos they can't afford to place one big enough for hunters to go after.

Random suggestion which I'm sure has been brought up before: leverage the missioning system with Concord agents who pick random active targets from people who have bounties.

If a hunter has a mission Concord won't 'protect' the target, so don't need to worry about calculating profit/loss of suicide ganks & people might be willing to risk shiny ships, and will get the full value of the bounty payout rather than the value minus the cost of the ship used to kill the target.

Making them act the same way as missions I think would encourage pve only type players to try them out, maybe getting them in to pvp. Would need to have longer complete times (minimum a week? 2?) and a maybe just a lp payout on top of the bounty itself. Perhaps the agent levels could correlate to the security of the space the target is active in so level 1 agents only offer targets active in high sec (the main 'reward' is not getting concorded).

Also make sure the Concord agents are not in the same station as locator agents; people should undock to get from one to the other (yes, I know, locator alts but more alts means more accounts and such etc). Maybe only have a few systems that have these agents. I kind of envision a bounty hunter hub of sorts where markets can be seeded, people can camp well known bounty hunters themselves (I'd guess many bounty hunters will end up with bounties of their own) and similar.