EVE General Discussion

I agree with you. Not because of your complete ignorance of how bounties work, though. Because of your second line. Bounties have always been, and should always stay, as player generated content.

Mr Epeen

Do you where port tanga?

Yet another ISK faucet to "bring life to lowsec". It's not 2012 anymore when we regularly had to check it's pulse.

In my experience, pirates mostly die to other pirates. I have yet to see a bounty hunter in low sec. So giving bounties to all pirates means pirates get more bounty payouts. You're essentially subsidizing us so we can gank you more often.

Great idea! In order to keep ISK sinks and faucets balanced I suggest the bounties are paid for by a tax on the income/assets of positive sec players.

GOD NO. Get an alt, disco jita undock, then pod them whenever you want isk.

I'd say no too.



However the bounty system needs an overhaul.

People giving bounties (minimum amount) to anyone just because their name appears in an in-game chat log is just plain silly.

Internet spaceship violence and the hurt feelings of disproportionately invested man baby's is though.
where did you get Child molestation from, relax.

The purpose of the bounty system is as an isk sink. What you are proposing would make it a faucet. A faulty one with really bad plumbing.

If you read the EVElopedia (yeah it has a funny name too) you'll see that what you are proposing already exists. Payouts are a percentage of value lost.

The percentage is currently 20%. So if the "bad" guys loss (i.e. ship+modules) is 100mil then you can only get 20mil for killing him. This 20mil comes out of his bounty. If he only had 10mil bounty, u only get 10mil and his bounty is cleared. If he had 100mil bounty then you would get the full 20mil (in this case) and his bounty would drop to 80mil.

It wasn't always so.

For a long time in EvE the bounty system was a joke. You used to get 100% of the bounty regardless what the other pilot was flying. So you got an alt, blew yourself up and claimed your bounty. Of course you'd need a second account for that (good for CCP) or someone you trusted to kill you and give you the money.

What the new system does makes it rather difficult to make money out of your bounty since you need to spend money on ship+modules and even then you only get 20% of that.

It has also made "bad" guys ...farmable.

In any case, the bounty system is still broken in the sense that anyone can place a bounty on anyone. It makes bounties irrelevant in the sense that they do not accurately reflect whether someone is a pirate or not, if anyone can place a bounty on anyone else.

Official bounties in the RL are placed by authorities.

So, yes, CCP could change this yet again.

They could make it so that bounties are placed automatically by Concord relative to the value lost by the 'victims'. They have rules about what is legal or not, when you get a criminal flag for example. Bounties remain farmable at 20% relative to loss value which makes them non-exploitable.

Now if you really absolutely want the freedom to place bounty because you believe that are an authority, then they could raise the price of that perhaps. Say if you want to place a bounty on someone you have to pay 5 times the bounty that you want placed. So 10mil gets you a 2 mil bounty. The rest goes to the Concord "peace fund".

Don't ask me if the numbers add up. If its an isk-sink or isk-fountain. There are two sides to it. Whatever it is, its against something else.

Undocking in cheap ships with a 3bil bounty on your head is rated as trolling.