EVE New Citizens Q&A

Would you like me to give you a bounty?

You can join one of the blockades that have been pwning me today. Been through hundreds of blockades with no problems then and suddenly can't get past one today. The last one was clearly lag though, so I wonder if some of the others might be too.

I was 4 jumps from home too. Man, meaningful losses = meaningful rewards indeed. But still sucks when you lose. That load was supposed to outfit at least a six ship stable. Now I'm back spinning in amarr.

You newbies are lucky you guys get to keep your wanted sign on your face. I never manage to keep my bounties on me when I'm active since I tend to lose ships in the process of playing EVE as it's meant to be. Heck the 20 million bounty I got from a miner we ganked in lowsec disappeared 20 minutes later in the form of a BC lossmail and some assorted frigs.

Then again I'm inactive as hell on EVE atm so please dump 100 mil bounties on me to motivate me to play again.

There was some guy in Rens used to bounty everyone in local,

Not sure if he did it for lols or was just a scammer trying to make everyone "Wanted" so he didn't stand out.

Basically Bounties are Street Cred and that is about it, no-one is going to attack you just for a bounty.

There is abuse of the system as it is a failed system.

Some people just place bounties on new characters just for the sake of it (some specifically target characters that don't have a bounty and are in an NPC corp.) because they can and they also know it annoys some new players as even those new players can see it's a broken system.

Just goes to show how bad the system is when more seasoned players tell others that they shouldn't worry about the bounty as it doesn't mean anything.

People also suicide gank for the Lols. Or one of the Alliances might be holding an event, like Burn Jita where tears are the currency of choice.

So yea, just adding more emphasis on Highsec is NOT safe, just generally less likely.

In real life that would be a crime. Unless you were a governmental organization. Even then it would be however since they run their respective court systems it becomes complicated to hold them accountable. Back to your comparison here, in real life hiring someone to kill another person ( which a bounty is just a publicly available contract ) is a crime. You are considered just as guilty as the person pulling the trigger.

In this game there are no consequences inherent to game mechanics for a person placing a bounty on other person.

This is a game and a Sci Fi one at that, you'd probably be better off trying to avoid real life comparison to game mechanic rules as much as possible. Obviously you can do as you wish, I'm just saying we come to this game to live a fantasy not mimic real life, or at least that's why I come here.

Not at all, don't believe that for one second (bolded and underlined bit).

But the system from an RP perspective is complete and utter BS.

I know if I was going to place a bounty on a character, it wouldn't be using the bounty system.

As for dropping a few million bounty on Avvy, I wouldn't waste your isk. Just under a month of my sub. left and it's starting to look like I won't be bothering to even log in.

Suddenly it's about RP, which had no mention in your initial post.
Suddenly it's a completely different context.
Suddenly it's not just about old players being mean to young players.

Do you even realize that you can't be taken seriously now?

I fully agree that you shouldn't bother...

I re-activated my acct yesterday after a 2 month break. It took approx 40 seconds before the first bounty :) Some people just aren't trying hard enough..