EVE New Citizens Q&A

Maybe the fact that it doesn't work like that. Besides, why share the money when you can just use a second account & pod yourself?

Yeah, I find the bounty system pretty broken and not worth going after somone since they'll be sitting in a station 90% of time, especially those with high bounties.

Bounties are useless.

Might as well right click your target and select give money.

Anybody with a sizeable enough bounty will just make a trial alt and pod himself for the ISK.

^^^This.

When I first came to EVE, being a bit of a loner, I was attracted to the idea of bounty hunting but the more I've thought about it the more I've become convinced that there's no way to make it work. I think even Archdaimon's CONCORD idea would be open to exploitation.

Yes, if another player has set the bounty on you and you do that I would say it's exploitation.

Edit: Apologies to all, that's the third time I've altered this post. Trying to watch Euro 2012, play EVE and post in these forums all at the same time isn't working out too well.

too much work

When you kill someone can you see who placed the bounty with maybe a short description?
Something like this?

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b261/Lord_Steel/HiredGun.png

If so then it is pretty simple to place a small bounty with the promise of more when the deed is done.
Also why not just pay someone you trust to go do the kill?

I heard once that 90% of the players with large bounties are no longer playing.

It sounds kinda like the problem with the bounty system is highsec and local.

So right now and with only my poor understanding of the game, bounty hunting looks really really hard.

First step would be making a hunting log to figure out what the target is doing and when. So you need to be tracking movement and log in patterns. I know you can track location and the tools to find a log in pattern are here. The biggest hickup I see here is alts and the way skills work. A player can stay on a station for weeks and still be being productive and making money. If a player is doing this the hunt is pretty much over and your just keeping tabs in case things change.

When the opportunity presents itself in Highsec I would think that it would play out much like a Hulk gank.... but I kinda doubt a Drake or T3 will fold so easy to a throw away destroyer. This means you need a ship or fleet that can kill what ever they have before Concord shows. That's going to be a big cost multiplier. You could try a war dec to keep cost down but you give up the only real thing working for you.... surprise
Catching the all important pod is also probably not so easy as well.

Things look better in lowsec but the local channel betrays you more so here, and then you have to wait tell your target is just d*cking around alone in lowsec, or you have to bring a fleet.


This is just my noobish impression of hunting so feel free to correct me if I am wrong however I am willing to bet 90% of true BH kills are targets of opportunity on low sum amounts, and not true hunts.

These days...and really since Eve started...bounties are just a form of vanity tags you can put on yourself. A nice little bonus to the lucky SOB that actually gets that podkill. If a player actually receives a large bounty, it is almost a badge of achievement, and can be seen as a form of savings account.

Very few of them are worth going after, and these days, very few of them are worth podding yourself to claim.

Some people just want their profile picture to have the cool looking "WANTED" on it. And that is fine.