EVE General Discussion

As a bitter vet, I am not happy with the changes being made to the game or the direction it is going. So rather than stew quietly I tried to think of how to respond the eve-way.

So my big FU to the eve universe is using the bounty system.

I positioned outside jita 44 and put bounties on all the freighters/barges that passed through (flitered ovrerview of course). 1m for jfs and 100k for the rest.

This made sure that:
1. no newbies were bountied
2. since they are probably not pvp-ers it is likely that my "statements" would last a long time
3. they were likely active characters, at least some of the time

Some interesting observations from this:
1. I started a couple days after the patch, bountied for a few hours at a time, yet it took 3 days before I started seeing repeat visitors.
2. half of this class of vessels is actually orcas
3. traders are remarkably pleasant people. Most just send a ? or thank you, and out of thousands of bounties had only 1 that could say was actually pissed.
4. hulks are rare now, mostly retrievers (surprise eh?)
5. jfs - 1 every 20 minutes or so
6. there are actually moments during all times of the days, usually only a second or two, where no ships of these classes are outside jita 44
7. So far I have spent about 500m and have to check odd hours now to find unbountied ships
8. It is actually quite fun in a wierd way since ships come and go so often you have to click fast to catch them, especially the jfs. So I plan on spending a few more hundreds of million doing it.

This is a great way to make this bitter vet less bitter. As I expected I get few notices that bounties have been claimed, so I know that my FU msg will be in eve a long time, and that is a comforting thought.

Maybe I am not using the bounty system in the way it was designed, but I am having fun with it and the devs should be satisfied with that.

p.s. one newbie type character put a 1b bounty on me, so I am assuming it was a proxy which is wierd but hey, when I am active I hang outside jita 44 in a CN hookbill so if anyone wants a piece of that bounty they are welcome to take a shot.

you're flying a hookbill, your bounty payout isn't worth me bothering to undock.

Yeah, I'm sure the effects of your indiscriminate gesture of anger will be felt for aeons within the capsuleer community.

If anybody remembers you at all, that is. Which they won't.
You'd be better off just sending all of your isk to me.

More interested in the person who would tie up a whole billion on a almost 5 year old npc corp player.

Did you unscrew your brain before you started posting?

Op, I think you've just made a LOT of gankers VERY happy. I can see it now, bombs exploding in the Jita region to collect 6 bounties at once. Seeing as you noted that many players in Jita are flying Orcas, that's quite the x-mas bonus

*considers loading up on x-mas missiles and dropping them down Jitas chimney*

Placing bounties on random, innocent by-stander targets... working as intended.


Wait.. no.. When did that change? Are you referring to getting Concorded? Or simply, you just can't turn them on similar to how you can't use bombs in High-sec?

Aww, did someone with deep pockets place a large bounty on your head?

You clearly have no idea of what you're talking about. I'm going to place a bounty on your head.

I have it on good authority that someone put a bounty on his head for being a sperg.