Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This idea was originally posted in a thread on the General Discussion forum but at the suggestion of Calapine I am posting here for comments.

Proposed mechanic for a revised bounty system.

If A wants to take out a bounty on B then has to buy a bounty from Concord this gives A a fully transferrable contract to kill B for a limited period of time (1 week or 1 month at different rates). Buying bounty puts the amount of the bounty into escrow.

A can put the bounty contract up on the contract system (and risk an alt of B picking it up) or trade it to a known bounty hunter corp/player.

Basic bounty works for 0.0 or low sec but A has to pay a premium for a high sec bounty to allow kills in high sec. This would be paid to Concord and amount to a real ISK sink (no bad thing as far as the economy is concerned).

Bounty can only be taken out on players with negative security rating.

Bounty generates kill mail to show A what has happened and the total loss to B. I am sure with a system like this bounty hunter reputations would soon spring up to ensure a robust mechanic.

Link to original Ajion thread (whose idea the above was based on)

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=27696&find=unread