EVE General Discussion

I'm Kendra Agon, CEO of the newly founded Poros Mercenary Connections corporation. The idea behind Poros Mercenary Connection (PMC) is that in the current EVE system, it is too hard for someone to both adequately place a bounty, and for bounty hunting to be a profitable career.

PMC serves only as a service for creating, listing, and collecting bounties in a new way in EVE - via player to player interaction, through a third party (PMC).

Rather than write out a rather long and confusing paragraph, let me take you through how PMC will function, step by step.

1. Someone wants to place a bounty on another player in the game.

2. Through PMC, that person has the option of placing a bounty either anonymously, or publicly. This is done by either sending the isk and target name directly to me (Kendra Agon), whose wallet is not public via API, or sending isk and a target name to the PMC Corp Wallet, which is made public via API.

3. Targets are specified by the person placing the bounty by placing a name in the "reason" field when sending isk. If the person wishes, they can set specific parameters on a bounty - from a minimum isk value to number of involved parties, anything goes. However, this will likely decrease the likelihood that your bounty gets taken up and executed! Any special conditions are sent with the target name in the title to me (Kendra Agon). I will pass all these details on to possible hunters.

4. For now, all the bounty placer has to do is sit back, and wait for a hunter to complete their bounty.

5. Now, we head over to the prospecting hunter. **Hunters are required to have a valid, verified API with PMC to recieve any payouts from placed bounties.** PMC has a special mailing list where all bounties will be posted (PMC Bounties). All a hunter has to do is find one they want, and then once the deed is done, send in a mail with the target name in the title and the killmail attached to receive their payment. By default, all payments are 100% of isk value killed - so if someone has a bounty of 100 million isk on their head in total, someone who kills them in something worth 80 million and sends in the mail will be rewarded with 80 million isk, with a remaining pool of 20 million isk.

6. After a bounty is paid out, the placer of the bounty will be notified.

And that's it! If you have questions, or want more information, please feel free to comment here or send Kendra Agon a mail in game.


P.S. - If at any time you wish to review the process for either collecting or placing a bounty, the Poros Mercenary Connections corporation description as well as the PMC Bounties welcome mail should have answers to any FAQ.

(Mods - if this is in the wrong forum, please feel free to move it!)

Why don't you join EVE Bounty Corporation instead of forming another corp to do exactly the same thing they are also trying to do? Seems like the only way that this idea could gain any traction is if there is one known credible source that people can go to to place bounties - and they have the better name for getting the word out.

Still, I think the idea is doomed - people who place bounties tend to be pretty uninformed guys making a kneejerk reaction - most are unlikely to do any research into better ways to place bounties.

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