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Sam Ruger
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2013-07-23 21:57:20 UTC
Im a mostly carebear myself but some of them are whiny . A corp mate in a venture had a 1 million bounty put on him because his mining laser was on a rock some guy in Retriever was mining. I returned the favor with a 100 million bounty (money I had won from said corp mate while betting last saturday). The guy felt the need to email me that he was just trying to teach the guy a lesson. Like 1 million is gonna make anyone even notice. Just today I was flying my Noctics on the way somewhere and I got bountied myself for 1 million isk because I quote "stole his salvage" . Trying to decide if this guy is worth 100 million in retaliation.

Ive always felt that if its not in your station container its not really yours. Or parked inside the POS shield for my WH friends.



Oh on a side note does the winner of an actual duel get to collect on any bounties?
Ciyrine
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#2 - 2013-07-23 21:59:25 UTC
Does 100mil make people notice and act?
Evi Polevhia
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#3 - 2013-07-23 22:04:37 UTC
Bounties are either too small to be worth paying attention to, or so large the bounty-er is better off just holding on to the large sum of ISK. I only bounty in jest, really. There are much better ways to see someone learns a lesson.
Sam Ruger
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2013-07-23 22:18:15 UTC  |  Edited by: Sam Ruger
Ciyrine wrote:
Does 100mil make people notice and act?




Didn't think it would. Just that it wasn't my hard earned isk I was blowing.


Though mine did make the guy who owns the alt that got the mining bounty to start thinking about crawling out of his WH for a suicide gank.
CompleteFailure
DAWGS Corp.
Negative Feedback
#5 - 2013-07-23 22:27:59 UTC
Totally worth it, now advertise the bounty to your local gankers and watch them come running like you just rang the dinner bell Twisted

For even more fun, put another 100 mil on him and tell him you did it because he complained about it. Make sure to repost his tears here for all to see Big smile
Whitehound
#6 - 2013-07-23 22:53:53 UTC
Bounties do not work well.

Put a bounty on a suicide ganker and when CONCORD kills the ganker will CONCORD claim the bounty but passes it on to the victim. As if the victim had killed the ganker. One needs to wonder why victims deserve a reward.

And multiple gankers can aggro each other before CONCORD arrives and thereby claim a part of the bounty for themselves. Surely not what many had in mind when they placed the bounty.

This leaves only two practical use cases for bounties. One either puts a bounty on an enemy before a war, thereby paying one's own pilots a bonus and hoping to increase the fleet participation, or to scare a noob with it.

Loss is meaningful. Therefore is the loss of meaning likewise meaningful. It is the source of all trolling.
Setaceous
Nexus Prima
#7 - 2013-07-23 23:33:31 UTC
Ciyrine wrote:
Does 100mil make people notice and act?

Even 5 mil does. I put that on an annoying player trolling in local and was getting bounty mail for weeks from his cheap ships.
William Walker
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#8 - 2013-07-24 06:13:16 UTC
I always put bounties of 420,420 on people. Blaze it.

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Xen Solarus
Furious Destruction and Salvage
#9 - 2013-07-24 08:20:16 UTC
Though bounties are rather pointless, as everyone has them and they don't just apply to those with low security standings, you should be warned. I myself used bounties against people that had wronged me in the past, and it only takes one super-rich player to respond with an insane 5billion bounty to screw you over.

Overall, bounties are worthless, just an additional bit of isk for anyone that happens to randomly kill you. Boils down to bragging rights.

Post with your main, like a BOSS!

And no, i don't live in highsec.  As if that would make your opinion any less wrong.  
Diesel47
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#10 - 2013-07-24 09:46:33 UTC
You are a punk for putting bounties on people.

What do you think you are some kinda rich guy that can pick on the less fortunate players?

Shame on you, I hate it when people bounty for no reason should make the entire mechanic just go away IMO.
Silvetica Dian
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#11 - 2013-07-24 10:15:23 UTC
William Walker wrote:
I always put bounties of 420,420 on people. Blaze it.


You shouldn't advertise the CFC POS shield password like that.......now everyone will know.........

Money at its root is a form of rationing. When the richest 85 people have as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion (50% of humanity) it is clear where the source of poverty is. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/20/trickle-down-economics-broken-promise-richest-85
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#12 - 2013-07-24 10:24:32 UTC
Silvetica Dian wrote:
William Walker wrote:
I always put bounties of 420,420 on people. Blaze it.


You shouldn't advertise the CFC POS shield password like that.......now everyone will know.........


Oh I'm sure they wont notice.
Roime
Mea Culpa.
Shadow Cartel
#13 - 2013-07-24 10:34:34 UTC
Bounties are just another way of increasing player interaction, they seem to cause emotions, and in the end if not that much increase PVP, at least reward it.

Not a game changer, but a nice addition to EVE.

.
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#14 - 2013-07-24 10:43:43 UTC
100mil? How cute. Lol
Liafcipe9000
Critically Preposterous
#15 - 2013-07-24 10:49:36 UTC
Sam Ruger wrote:
Trying to decide if this guy is worth 100 million in retaliation.

OH HELL YEAH

Sam Ruger wrote:
Oh on a side note does the winner of an actual duel get to collect on any bounties?

Yes, if you destroy a ship flown by someone with a bounty, you'll be paid 20% of the ship's worth(including its fitting), or in case of the bounty being lower than that, you'll receive the entire bounty.
William Walker
Dark Venture Corporation
Kitchen Sinkhole
#16 - 2013-07-24 10:54:27 UTC
Diesel47 wrote:
You are a punk for putting bounties on people.

What do you think you are some kinda rich guy that can pick on the less fortunate players?

Shame on you, I hate it when people bounty for no reason should make the entire mechanic just go away IMO.


Remind me to put a 420,420 bounty on you when I login. Bounties erryday 20/4.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#17 - 2013-07-24 11:06:54 UTC
Ciyrine wrote:
Does 100mil make people notice and act?



No, but you get to have an evil laugh every single time you are notified that they got asploded.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Sergeant Acht Scultz
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#18 - 2013-07-24 11:30:39 UTC
CompleteFailure wrote:
Totally worth it, now advertise the bounty to your local gankers and watch them come running like you just rang the dinner bell Twisted

For even more fun, put another 100 mil on him and tell him you did it because he complained about it. Make sure to repost his tears here for all to see Big smile



This


The only issue with bounties is the stupid low amounts you can start with, CCP should change this for a minimum 100M isk

Tired of killing ships for a poor 200k Isk at best.

removed inappropriate ASCII art signature - CCP Eterne
Whitehound
#19 - 2013-07-24 11:57:29 UTC
Roime wrote:
Not a game changer, but a nice addition to EVE.

CCP changed the status of the bounty mechanics from being "a failure" to "rudimentary functional" and then sold it to us like an energy drink.

Loss is meaningful. Therefore is the loss of meaning likewise meaningful. It is the source of all trolling.