EVE General Discussion

What's a bounty? I keep losing it every time I log in.

That's why I specified that you should only be able to put a bounty on someone who has actually wronged you or your corp. Then you actually deserve it, including the open season part.

Reread my post and you'll understand how the bounty system would be made relevant again.

So if you rob my corp hanger of everything in it, I can't put a bounty on you?

So if you bump my freighter 200km off the gate so it can be ganked, I can't put a bounty on you?

Look man, i'm sorry some silly people get their knickers in a twist because someone put a 100k bounty on them. But "Some random noob doesn't udnerstand that bounties dont equal killrights and freaked out about it" isn't a good reason to add the restrictions you're advocating.

Bounties mean nothing in a world where everyone is immortal. What is sad is seeing new players not understanding that, and throwing away their hard earned isk in a vain attempt for justice.

The current system really should be removed from the game. Since there really is no way of making a system that is both significant and not subject to major abuse.

Man a lot of people enjoy the bounty system. I bountied Mike Azariah at the start of CSM8, and instead of crying about being "violated" like a little baby, he owned it, and now last I looked his bounty is 15B. Aint stopping him from having fun.

Anything you do to spare new players of the harsh environment that New Eden is wont make them stay, just will delay their departing.

Anyone who are annoyed by bounty, will be since day 1 to the end of days. Anyone who dont care, wont care now, wont care then.

Honestly the whole becoming available if your bounty is higher than your ship is not a bad way to get rid of the pricks with cheaper ships and makes a higher bounty a worthwhile royal pain in the ass to have on you. It's an extremely creative idea and so long as there is a buffer from immediate bounty placement I would love implementation. The only issue is newbies could be grief'd a whole ton with ship loss after ship loss into rage-quitting, unfortunately even if the whole bounty was payed out on death.


Tougher players would probably be fine and would be expected to tough it out like security status or killrights (it could even pseudo replace killright functionality without actual killright removal).

The finance industry has a tool called risk management. It is used by other industries, but it originated in the TI industry actually, and goes like this:

- Information is organized data, so everything that cant be correctly bound by data is not information. Acting upon that as information would be assumption, ergo, risky.

You turn it to money and value, chance and outcome, and you can bring it to any kind of analisys.

If you make it impossible to cash in on your own demise or property destruction, but you allow that to be when someone else does kill or destroy your property, the only difference is that an alt or friend will do the same thing. There is no reason to change something that cant be prevented just to make it a bit harder but more rewarding. No data is added in the system to justify the hopes of more information coming out of it.

Almost everything that is not changed in the game, is based on that, by technique or intuition, devs try to know how effective changing will be before actually changing things.

The old immortal thing. Oh paradox.

If this is an issue, why botter fighting ? why bother trying to fend people off of places ? why competing ? why doing anything if you have free rookie ships, free base clones, free access to missions giving stuff and money. Why play at all ?

That is EVE. We gotta do here what we pose to ourselves as goal, without hoping game mechanics give us reason to play.

Inacting aggression mechanics on bounties would make people dislike having them, therefore making them an effective way of paying for someone else misery which I think is what bounties were meant for. Also a reward for their destruction. With a buffer between bounty and vulnerability to keep it from being a (can kill you for "this" much isk) exploit button.

It would turn even being in lowsec on bounty into an interesting thing, because like low security status you would be available for anyone to target without gate guns or a security status hit of your own, you would also be rewarded for winning as well.

I think it enhances the system. Issue with the mechanics being that way is it makes new-bros easy kills for spending a measly amount of isk. Which is entirely a reason not to connect aggression mechanics to bounties unless there was a non broken workaround for that as well. Just hoping someone can come up with one or a different fix to make bounties more meaningful.