EVE New Citizens Q&A

Any player can put a bounty on every other player for any reason he deems fit. That is the way the bounty system works in EvE.

I hope that answers you question.

All the other new players will all be well jealous!

With 'WANTED' across your mug shot, they'll be less inclined to mess with you as well!

Honestly though, It wont affect you in the slightest. Ignore it.

Not the bounty whine thread again. In before people start putting mass bounties on OP.


OP. Bounties in itself don't mean very much, let alone small bounties.

A.) They don't change CONCORD mechanics. So in high-sec people still have to suicide gank you or have a legit reason to kill you in the first place.

B.) Bounties only pay out 1/5th of the value of the loss. So if you are flying a 1 million ISK ship, the bounty payout on killing your ship will be 200.000 ISK. So even if you end up with a bounty of 800 million and you use small cheap ships, you won't become a viable target anyway (well, there might be people who will just kill you so they can brag they killed someone with a massive bounty).

OP, if you really want to lose a bounty, fit a ship and jump into pvp. If you get off a few kills, fine, but your objective would be to eventually die and move ISK from the bounty pool into someone's wallet. Now that you have drawn extra attention to yourself your bounty may rise, but usually the random 'welcome to EVE' bounties stay below 1 mil and are easily cleared by wasting a frigate. Just duel a corpie or something, if you don't feel like jumping into lowsec. It's really no big deal.

Reasons to get bounties on you:

• Cause butthurt (depends more on who you shoot, then what you shoot).
• Whine on the forums or in local, or otherwise compain about 'unfairness'.
• Stand out. In whatever way. Somebody somewhere will disagree.

"Oh no I got a bounty what should I do?"

"Better call attention to myself on the forums"



You have much to learn...

Forunately it is also meaningless. :ccp:



Well, let's apply the current EVE bounty system to real life.

You are able to put bounties on people(and bounties are public, plus the target is required to wear a WANTED T-Shirt), which will mean that whoever finds and beats up the target will get 20% of their medical bill paid out from the bounty. Hovewer if you are caught doing the beating, the police is still going to fine you/put you in jail. Or, to further expand the analogy to CONCORD mechanics, if you're caught doing the beating they police is gonna beat you up.

Now what part of this makes a lick of sense?

Wait a minute, let's compare this to real life. We're flying spaceships in another Galaxy where people die over and over again, now what part of this makes a lick of sense?

It makes perfect sense to me.

Player A inflicts butthurt on player B. Player B then bounties player A who enjoys the attention / cosmetic change. Player B in turn, gets a notification the next few times player A dies. He pays for the privilige of information, and in turn players C, D, E, F and G (and their Fleets) get some ISK for their 'brave white knightery'. Everbody gets a pat on the back for a GF.

Is it this hard to suspend disbelief? C'mon, internet space ships people. Serious business.

This would likely draw a LOT less attention from people unhappy about the bounty and by extension those ridiculing them for being concerned about an effectively meaningless feature in the game if they simply removed or reduced the size of the WANTED banner.

I have a bounty, I ignore it, it doesnt effect the reason I made this toon. I dislike the WANTED banner simply because I dislike having it for no better reason than someone was bored in the Help channel one afternoon.
Yes I can get my ship blown up to clear it (I probably will do exactly that).

I'm just suggesting a way to stop people getting all Bent-Outta-Shape over the antics of bored asshats who got handed a cheap Annoy-the-****-outta-People button.