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Trasch Taranogas
State War Academy
Caldari State
#1 - 2017-01-09 19:53:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Trasch Taranogas
Is this for real?

Look at that bounty?

http://imgur.com/a/F8QVd

In Hi-sec.

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Bargain Benny
Doomheim
#2 - 2017-01-09 19:55:21 UTC
A member of CODE without a bounty is like a unicorn. I'm not at all surprised.
Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#3 - 2017-01-09 19:55:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Scipio Artelius
Yes it's for real.

Lots of people don't understand how pointless bounties are and how many notifications they are going to receive for eternity when they place a bounty on a ganker.
Trasch Taranogas
State War Academy
Caldari State
#4 - 2017-01-09 19:58:54 UTC
So i could pop that player
and be rich?

If you always stay ready you don't have to get ready.
SurrenderMonkey
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#5 - 2017-01-09 20:02:39 UTC
Not unless you catch them in something very expensive.

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Trasch Taranogas
State War Academy
Caldari State
#6 - 2017-01-09 20:04:08 UTC
So the bounty is just a "diploma" for badass?

If you always stay ready you don't have to get ready.
MadMuppet
Critical Mass Inc
#7 - 2017-01-09 20:06:38 UTC
You only get paid for the value of the ship (or some such ratio) when you kill them. Basically, with a huge bounty, it could mean payouts for a long time if you were to keep killing the guy. Unless the mechanic changed, anybody can place a bounty on anybody else. Generally they are ignored.

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Akane Togenada
Doomheim
#8 - 2017-01-09 20:07:55 UTC
Trasch Taranogas wrote:
So the bounty is just a "diploma" for badass?


It's not even that, just utterly useless in every possible way.
Eternus8lux8lucis
Guardians of the Gate
RAZOR Alliance
#9 - 2017-01-09 20:13:46 UTC
Bounties are only extra gratuities of you do manage to kill the person normally. I got like 800mil+ in bounties sitting in jita I ended up paying out when I died in null for quite some time to others. But other than that its generally not worth it even to suicide someone in an expensive ship for the bounty, though this would work in some cases to pay for the ganking ship itself and in very remote cases even profit off it.

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You said it's all circling the drain, the whole universe. Right?

That's right.

Had to end sometime.
Bronson Hughes
The Knights of the Blessed Mother of Acceleration
#10 - 2017-01-09 20:19:58 UTC
Massive bounty + itty bitty ship kill = itty bitty bounty payout.

Bounties are only worth it if the person with the bounty regularly, and dangerously, flies ships that cost on the order of the bounty.

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Scipio Artelius
Weaponised Vegemite
Flying Dangerous
#11 - 2017-01-09 20:25:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Scipio Artelius
Trasch Taranogas wrote:
So the bounty is just a "diploma" for badass?

In general, pretty useless.

I think, unlike insurance which isn't paid out to a ganker, bounties are still paid out and you'll often see the gankers in each other's lossmail, which gives them all a small bounty payment. That helps cover the cost of the gank in a small way, thanks to people putting bounties on gankers.

I could be wrong on that last bit though, just how I understand it works.

Aside from that, bounties are just a compliment unless you kill something expensive and the character has a large bounty.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#12 - 2017-01-09 20:40:47 UTC
Trasch Taranogas wrote:
So the bounty is just a "diploma" for badass?

Think tip jar, in reverse.

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